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'Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job'

The body of Ethel Freeman, center in wheelchair, and another body lie covered outside an entrance to the New Orelans Convention Center, where thousands of people awaited evacuation to higher ground on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. Credit: ERIC GAY/Associated Press
On Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, President Bush visited the hurricane-stricken area. At a nationally televised news conference in Alabama, he praised Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job." One group later named this Bush's most memorable phrase of 2005.
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Posted by Oscar Martinez on September 2, 2006 06:51 AM |