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Obama, Barack - President
Well, good afternoon, everybody. I want to just say, first of all, how proud I am to be joined by Governor Jindal, Senator Mary Landrieu, Senator David... |
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Obama, Barack - President
As you can see, there has been enormous devastation in St. John’s Parish, and that’s not the only place that’s been hard hit. We’ve also seen... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want to commend everybody who’s here for the extraordinary work that they’ve done in making sure that lives were saved, that although there was... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I want to particularly thank FEMA and the state and local authorities, because sometimes in the past we haven’t seen the kind of coordination that... |
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Obama, Barack - President
I particularly want to commend the sheriff and his team because they’ve been working around the clock saving lives. Some of the folks that we just... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Keep in mind that many of these folks who have been working so hard, they themselves suffered losses. So I’ve just been talking to the sheriff and... |
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Obama, Barack - President
A couple of final points I want to make. Obviously, right now, we’re still in recovery mode, and that means that our biggest priority is helping to... |
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Obama, Barack - President
But we’ve got a larger issue involved here, and that is how do we anticipate these storms and how do we make sure that an area like St. John’s is... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And so what I’ve pledged to these folks is we’re going to make sure that at the federal level we are getting on the case very quickly about figuring... |
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Obama, Barack - President
So the final point I’ll make is, one thing you know about folks in Louisiana, they are resilient. People in Mississippi, they are resilient. They... |
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Obama, Barack - President
We heard one story about one of these homes where a local church group came in and did all the work that was needed to strip out the damaged interior... |
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Obama, Barack - President
And that’s what we do here in the United States of America, and that’s what happens in Louisiana. When disasters like this happen, we set aside... |
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Obama, Barack - President
Thank you very much, everybody. |