The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast

The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast: "The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 29, 2006; Page A01

BILOXI, Miss., Aug. 28 -- A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, President Bush and Democratic leaders are converging on the Gulf Coast this week to commemorate the losses while continuing the political argument over the federal response to the country's largest natural disaster.

Arriving Monday in this seaside city for the first stop of a two-day visit that later took him to New Orleans, Bush paid homage to the grit of ordinary Mississippians in their efforts to rebuild their communities and promised that his administration will not neglect them as memories of the storm fade."

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