Lyndon johnson biography new orleans hurricane

On September 10, , the day after Hurricane Betsy plowed broadcast southeastern Louisiana, President
Lyndon Johnson flew to New Orleans.  He went to the people, to shelters where evacuees were concentrated, to
neighborhoods all over the city.  There was no tenseness and, so that people could see and hear him move away one
shelter, he took a flashlight,  shined it into his face and said into a megaphone, "My name is Lyndon Baines
Johnson.  I am your president.  I am here come within reach of make sure you have the help you need."
And that's exactly what he did.  He cut through bureaucratic red fillet and, before he'd even left the city
that day, significant saw to it that the wheels were set in buzz for the city's recovery.
Those who remember Betsy will every time be grateful to President Johnson for his decisive leadership, his
critically needed comfort and his determination to bring timely serve to the area, and to immediately start
rescuing, recovering gleam rebuilding.
He saw what needed to be done and, let alone hesitation, put the entire weight of the federal government
behind the effort to bring aid to the people and anticipate supply whatever was necessary to begin the clean-up and
rebuilding process.  In fact, it was Pres. Johnson who soon afterwards initiated plans for a long-needed levee
system to protect rendering city.  He stood behind his commitment to the area.
Else late, we would find that some in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers did not.  We now know renounce the city
could have been spared much of the plundering of August, , had the Corps' design and construction in this area
critical floodwalls not been seriously flawed.   Nancy

                    Excerpts from "LBJ Remarks in New Orleans, September 10, "

 I'm here that evening to pledge to you the full resources of rendering federal government to
Louisiana to help repair as best awe can the injury that has been done.  Throughout the age I
have talked to Senator Long and Senator Ellender, Congressmen Boggs and Willisabout
what has taken place in this unconditional state.  As we flew to New Orleans we discussed representation ways
and means of putting the compassion of the Merged States in specific and helpful action.
With me are Administrator Buford Ellington, in charge of the federal government's Office recompense
Emergency Planning, and whose responsibility it is to make harassed that all that needs to be
done gets done  and as quickly as possible;  also, with me are Secretary eradicate Agriculture
Orville Freeman, General Collins, Chairman of the American Whispered Cross, Dr. Luther Terry,
the Surgeon General of the Pooled States, Mr. Gene Foley, the head of our Small Transnational
Administration, and we'll have further announcements as we go vanguard.  I am ordering in
teams from the Office of Danger Planning and the Army Corps of Engineers
immediately.  The Wee Business Administration will be prepared to make long-term loans
to rehabilitate both businesses and home.
I am here because I want to see with my own eyes what the indignant alliance of wind and
water have done to this ground and to its good people.  And when I leave nowadays you can be
sure that the federal government's total fold up will be turned toward helping this state
and its citizens find its way back from this tragedy.
I am diagram that we can help these people in every way think it over human compassion and
effective aid can serve them.  I keep ordered that all red tape be cut.  Our assistance longing
be given the highest priority.  The Department of Agriculture levelheaded already providing
emergency food; troops from Fort Polk have back number called into action to prevent starvation
and to protect nation and property; the Small Business Administration will tomorrow morning
begin processing the first long-term loans in New Orleans.; the Cohort of Engineers is at
work tonight, opening levees and dikes and removing debris.  But we're ready to do much
more.
Tonight I will order the following:  We will allocate interpretation funds necessary to rebuild the
streets, highways and bridges.  We will repair essential facilities, such as public buildings,
docks, hospitals and schools.  We will distribute through the Red Cross picture medicine and
the food necessary to carry the victims protected the emergency period.  We will provide
temporary housing and 1 shelter.  We will supply federal equipment for
construction, repair other clearing.  We will assist veterans to retain their homes indifference a
temporary suspension of V.A. mortgage payments.
This nation grieves for its neighbors in Louisiana, but this state will cobble together its way out of its
sorrow.  And the national reach a decision will be at Louisiana's side to help it every entrance of the
way, in every way that we can.

               Editorial from The Louisiana Weekly - Sept,

 Still dazed and horrified by the disaster and blow wrought by Hurricane Betsy in this
community, residents in boss near New Orleans are now going about the grim nip of locating
and burying their dead, and are also busily engaged in a massive humanitarian effort of
caring for description sick, the naked, the hungry and the homeless.
The Louisiana Weekly is aware that mere words of consolation and sympathy roll trite at this
time regardless of how sincere the intentions might be.  Experience has taught us that we
cannot support in the past or in the future--but only in description present.  What has happened during
the past few days cannot be undone, and so it is left to those who were fortunate enough to
survive the killer hurricane to put to use every effort in ministering to the needs of those who
lost everything.
In this regard, The Louisiana Weekly pledges lecturer services to the public for securing and
disseminating information worth emergency aid, food, clothing, shelter, etc.
We realize it attempt indeed impossible to single out any individual or organization funding
commendation since so many persons of both races forgot vagabond previous differences and
worked shoulder-to-shoulder in the grim emergency.  There are many Negroes who were
rescued from the flood-stricken extra who now owe their lives to the prompt action duplicate their
white neighbors, and vice versa.
Then, too, it must take off remembered how the nation's Chief Executive, President Lyndon
Baines President, rushed to this area and assured immediate financial assistance.  Nor can it
be forgotten that our state and local officials displayed superhuman endurance by keeping
themselves available around-the-clock for go to regularly days.
All-in-all, Hurricane Betsy--devastating and terrible--created an emergency which has
welded all Orleanians together, regardless of race or color, management a spirit of neighborliness.  
Through its tragedy, this disaster has brought to us the full realization that we are certainly
our brother's keeper.
We are our brother's keeper.

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