{"id":138,"date":"2005-11-03T11:14:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/11\/03\/mr-brown-goes-to-nordies\/"},"modified":"2005-11-03T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T15:14:39","slug":"mr-brown-goes-to-nordies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/11\/03\/mr-brown-goes-to-nordies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Brown goes to Nordies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1016'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/11\/03\/brown.fema.emails\/index.html\">a story on Mike Brown&#8217;s email exchanges<\/a> during the Hurricane Katrina crisis (<a href=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2005\/images\/11\/03\/brown.emails.pdf\">the emails are also available <\/a>for your parsing pleasure).&nbsp; Before, during, and after the storm hit, Mr. Brown was a wee bit concerned with his wardrobe:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Melancon said that on August 26, just days before Katrina made<br \/>\nlandfall, Brown e-mailed his press secretary, Sharon Worthy, about his<br \/>\nattire, asking: &#8220;Tie or not for tonight? Button-down blue shirt?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">A<br \/>\nfew days later, Worthy advised Brown: &#8220;Please roll up the sleeves of<br \/>\nyour shirt, all shirts. Even the president rolled his sleeves to just<br \/>\nbelow the elbow. In this [crisis] and on TV you just need to look more<br \/>\nhard-working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">On August 29, the day of the storm, Brown<br \/>\nexchanged e-mails about his attire with Taylor, Melancon said. She told<br \/>\nhim, &#8220;You look fabulous,&#8221; and Brown replied, &#8220;I got it at Nordstroms.<br \/>\n&#8230; Are you proud of me?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>It has also been brought to my attention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/27\/brown.fema\/\">Mr. Brown is working as a consultant for FEMA now<\/a>; he&#8217;s being paid to explain to them what went wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has a story on Mike Brown&#8217;s email exchanges during the Hurricane Katrina crisis (the emails are also available for your parsing pleasure).&nbsp; Before, during, and after the storm hit, Mr. Brown was a wee bit concerned with his wardrobe: Melancon said that on August 26, just days before Katrina made landfall, Brown e-mailed his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}