I remember Sunday morning when they announced the mandatory evac (I think it was 11:00 est). The Governor of LA made sure to say that the President urged her and the Mayor to order the evacuation. I was thinking at the time that if this storm didn't live up to the hype they could pin the evacation order on Bush. Funny, I haven't heard anyone commending the President on the evacuation today.
And I heard that FEMA or one of the disaster preparedness groups called the President out of frustration and asked him to intervene because the Governor and Mayor were not taking this seriously enough and that is why he made the call.