HURRICANE KATRINA caused the greatest natural disaster in American history. President Bush couldn’t change that. But Katrina also was a political disaster for the president. And Bush, given a year to think about it, realizes he could have avoided that.

What might the president have done differently? At least three things, starting with his decision two days after the levees broke–and New Orleans began to flood–to fly over the city in Air Force One without landing. Bush now knows he should have landed.

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