New Orleans Betrayed
…Now — suddenly — the administration has switched directions. Early last week White House officials told Mr. Baker and other Louisiana politicians not only that they refused to support the development corporation he proposed but that they’d asked congressional leaders to cancel planned hearings on the Baker bill. At his news conference last week, Mr. Bush claimed, strangely, that “the plan for Louisiana hasn’t come forward yet.” Was he misinformed or deliberately misleading?
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