President George W. Bush speaks with state and local officials during a briefing Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at the Galveston emergency operations center. The President spent the day in Texas visiting the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall September 13 near Galveston as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. White House photo by Eric Draper
Aboard Marine One, President George W. Bush flies over the devastation left along the Texas coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike. President Bush and officials toured the the Houston-Galveston areas Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, for a first-hand look and to participate in briefings from federal, state and local officials on the response to the storm. White House photo by Eric Draper
Mrs. Laura Bush offers photos of the Bush family dogs, Scottish Terrier's Barney and Miss Beazley, and the cat, Willie, to a little girl before departing from Forbes Field in Topeka, Kan., on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008. She had just greeted members of the military gathered to see her departure from the air field. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
