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President George W. Bush speaks with state and local officials during a briefing Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at the Galveston emergency operations center. The President spent the day in Texas visiting the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall September 13 near Galveston as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush speaks with state and local officials during a briefing Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at the Galveston emergency operations center. The President spent the day in Texas visiting the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall September 13 near Galveston as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush walks hand-in-hand with Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, during a visit to the Texas area hard hit by last weekend's Hurricane Ike. Walking with them from left are: Charlie Kelly, Emergency Manager Coordinator for the City of Galveston; President Bush, Mayor Thomas, Steve LeBlanc, Galveston City Manager and Texas Congressman Nick Lampson. White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush shakes hands of military personnel outside the emergency operations center at the U.S. Coast Guard Hangar at Ellington Field in Houston Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, during his visit to Texas to see firsthand the destruction left in the wake of last weekend's Hurricane Ike. White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush speaks with state and local officials during a briefing Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, at the Galveston emergency operations center. The President spent the day in Texas visiting the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Ike, which made landfall September 13 near Galveston as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of 110 miles per hour. White House photo by Eric Draper
President George W. Bush meets with locals officials at the U.S. Coast Guard facility at Ellington Field in Houston Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 before taking an aerial tour of Texas areas damaged in last weekend's hurricane. Said the President afterward, "My first observation is that the state government and local folks are working very closely and working hard and have put a good response together. The evacuation plan was excellent in its planning and in execution. The rescue plan was very bold, and we owe a debt of gratitude to those who were on the front line pulling people out of harm's way, like the Coast Guard people behind us here." White House photo by Eric Draper
Aboard Marine One, President George W. Bush flies over the devastation left along the Texas coast in the wake of Hurricane Ike. President Bush and officials toured the the Houston-Galveston areas Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, for a first-hand look and to participate in briefings from federal, state and local officials on the response to the storm. White House photo by Eric Draper
With Secretary Michael Chertoff of the Department of Homeland Security beside him, President George W. Bush speaks to the media in the Roosevelt Room Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, during an update on Hurricane Ike response and relief efforts. White House photo by Eric Draper

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