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Article: President Obama visits New Orleans
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 16, 2009
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NEW ORLEANS - President Barack Obama defended himself Thursday
against critics in New Orleans and across the Katrina-ravaged Gulf
Coast who feel recovery help has not come soon enough from his
administration.
Making his first stop as president in the region devastated by
Hurricane Katrina over four years ago, Obama appeared at a town hall
gathering to hear residents' concerns in person. One man asked why
federal damage reimbursements are coming to locals so slowly and in
amounts far less than needed.
"I expected as much from the Bush administration, but why are we
still being nickeled and dimed in our recovery," the man asked
Obama.
The president replied that his administration is "working ...