Gore Helps Airlift New Orleans Victims - Yahoo! News
Gore Helps Airlift New Orleans Victims - Yahoo! News: "KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -
Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.
Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew last Saturday and Sunday.
However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: 'Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has.'
In the speech, Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly 'when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck.'"
Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.
Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew last Saturday and Sunday.
However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: 'Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has.'
In the speech, Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly 'when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck.'"
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