"Oh, I find fault with him. This is the same mayor that announced he had to consult with his lawyers before calling a mandatory evacuation. At the same time, he was evacuating his own family!"Wouldn't you evactuate your family from NOLA if it was in your power to do so?===========================================
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Nagin's tirade on radio got president's attention
VIDEO: On Thursday night, with his city underwater, with thousands of his citizens feared dead, with looters besieging hospitals, with bodies floating in floodwaters, with people still marooned on rooftops, with tens of thousands of evacuees threatening to riot, the mayor exploded.
Critical of Bush
In an interview with a local radio station, Nagin accused the federal government, including President Bush, of failing to respond quickly enough to the catastrophe inflicted upon his city by Hurricane Katrina. In remarks later rebroadcast nationwide, he criticized Bush directly, saying "his flying over in Air Force One does not do ... justice" to the crisis.
Less than 24 hours later, the mayor found himself aboard Air Force One, face to face with the president at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. He repeated his criticisms, he said in an interview Friday night, and got a positive response from the president.
"He said he was fully committed to getting us the resources we need," Nagin said in the tattered Hyatt hotel next to the Superdome. "I told him I knew we could work together, and he said he understood."
In their two hours together, first on Air Force One and then during a flyover of the city in the president's helicopter, Nagin said Bush did not mention the radio tirade until the mayor himself brought it up.
"I told him: 'I said some things yesterday that may have offended you, and if they did, I apologize. But if you were in my shoes, what would you do?' " Nagin said. "He said he had heard I had said some things, but that he really didn't understand all of it. And then he said: 'You and I are OK.' "
Nagin grinned, adding: "The president loves frankness."