GROUP OF PEOPLE SHOUTING: “We want help! We want help! Help us!”
Susan Bennett helped create an exhibit about Hurricane Katrina at the Newseum, a museum of news in Washington.
SUSAN BENNETT: "Not only in this country, but also in newspapers across the world, you saw the same headline. It ranged from 'Engulfed' to 'Our Tsunami.' 'Chaos.' And then it went to 'Anarchy,' 'National Disgrace.'"
Congress later found that officials at every level of government -- local, state and federal -- had failed in doing their jobs.
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President Bush looks out the window of Air Force One over New Orleans, to inspect the damage from Hurricane Katrina
President Bush flew over New Orleans to inspect the damage. A photograph showed him looking out the window of Air Force One at the ground below. Russell Riley at the University of Virginia says the picture expressed what many people were thinking about the handling of the disaster.
RUSSELL RILEY: "Because of the ineffectiveness of the government response at the time, that image communicated to the American people that the president was remote. That he wasn't on the ground. That the best he could do was just look out the window of a passing plane."
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In two thousand five a different kind of storm was hitting Iraq. American and Iraqi officials were struggling to create a democratic government. Local militias were on the rise and attacking coalition forces and other Iraqis.
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