Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Former administrator of FEMA who resigned from his position after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many americans blamed him for the slow response to help those in New Orleans in the aftermath of the deadly hurricane.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 November 1954
CityGuymon, OK
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I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it,
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I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off.
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I usually don't go to church much so I get to spend time with God and hang out with friends.
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Thanks for update. Anything specific I need to do or tweak?
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Thank you for your consideration in helping us meet our responsibilities in this near catastrophic event.
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FEMA has pre-positioned many assets including ice, water, food and rescue teams to move into the stricken areas as soon as it is safe to do so.
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FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours,
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There was a cultural clash that didn't recognize the absolute inherent science of preparing for a disaster. Any time you break that cycle ... you're doomed to failure.
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There were five trucks arriving (Thursday) night to feed well over 50,000 people. There's less than that there. We're also diverting supplies to the convention center, which I learned about (Thursday). So I understand people's frustrations. But this has been an absolutely catastrophic disaster, and we're doing absolutely everything we can to get the supplies into those folks.
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There were a few stages in the match when the atmosphere was a little bit daunting, but I was able to knuckle down and finish well which was really pleasing.
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This is truly a catastrophic event, ... Larry King Live.
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You see, I get it when it comes to incident command systems, ... I get it when it comes to emergency management. I know what it's all about.
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This is the first object to be confirmed to be larger than Pluto in the outer solar system.
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This is not about saying he's going to get off. It's not about beating the case. It's acknowledging that different homicides are treated differently.