![]() He and his aides quickly decided that phone calls to governors and mayors, and a Saturday YouTube address, would suffice. The last thing the president needed was his own Katrina. “He said, ‘They just evacuated Fargo.’” Obama had pulled Emanuel to the side and wondered if, amid all the other chaos, he should go to flood-ravaged North Dakota to monitor the disaster firsthand. “At the end of that day, that particular day,” White House senior adviser David Axelrod recalled, “I went back to my office and said, ‘That was a phenomenal day,’ when you think of everything that’s come his way.” Then his phone rang. POLITICO Magazine: Obama’s First 100 Days. ![]() role in Afghanistan preparing for his first European trip, during which he would call for the eradication of nuclear weapons directing administration lawyers to ask a court for more time to decide whether to release top-secret memos on the torture of terror suspects and monitoring congressional progress on a budget that would have him spending and borrowing more than any president in U.S. On Obama’s schedule that single day: deciding whether to force the ouster of the head of General Motors and to put Chrysler on a death notice fine-tuning a speech in which he would break with his vice president and dramatically increase the U.S. The day showed a president and his team gasping for information and clarity amid a breakneck cascade of decisions. And both sides scored it a success.Īway from the cameras, a lot more was going on - a series of meetings that cast the casual, placid figure on display at the electronic town hall in a different light. ![]() The cable networks and other media - whose daily scorekeeping mentality and 24/7 obsessiveness is the subject of both scorn and fascination among President Obama’s equally obsessive political team members - covered it live. The event was an online town hall designed to show the president as accessible, informed, in control. ![]()
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