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| White House Faith-Based and
Community Forum on Katrina (September
17, 2005) |
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On September 6, 2004, [Floridian] Jim Towey,
Director of the White House Office on Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives hosted a White House interactive Forum discussing
the impacts of Hurricane Katrina, and some FBCO aspects of
disaster recovery and serving the victims of the storm. His
opening statement is clipped below and the entire forum transcript
can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20050916.htm
September 16, 2005
Jim Towey
Good afternoon. This morning
the President and Mrs. Bush attended a service at the National
Cathedral
to observe
the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the
victims of Hurricane Katrina. All Americans today are asked
to
pray for or otherwise remember those who died because
of this terrible storm, a number known now to exceed 700
souls.
It is also a day for us all to recommit to helping
rebuild the shattered Gulf State areas and last evening
the President
offered a number of ways to do this. President Bush
has been awed by the work of the “armies of compassion” who
have spent the nearly three weeks since the storm housing
the homeless, feeding the hungry, and most of all, loving
those who survived and consoling them. So today is an important
day at the White House and across America. It is great
to be back on "Ask the White House" and I
am happy to answer some of your questions.
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