09/11/2012
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"assures that there will be direct access but it cannot assure that the relationship with the President will be strong or that the Administrator will have the presidents confidence."
"Well, if you look at the time that we actually spent in each area, given the fact that we spent less than 24 hours in any community, it would have been utterly impossible to do that trip commercially ..."
"Virgin Islands was one of many stops."
"We are not nearly as robust in this area as we need to be. We could have had a major catastrophe on our hands."