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Haley Barbour: “My head of the National Guard might as well have been a Civil War general . . . because he could only find out what…”

On the recordMarch 29, 2011
My head of the National Guard might as well have been a Civil War general . . . because he could only find out what [was] going on by sending somebody.
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Haley Barbour

Editor's note · Context

Barbour highlighted communication failures during Hurricane Katrina.

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