PRESIDENT ASKS ROCK 'N ROLL LEGEND FATS DOMINO TO BE "HUMAN CORK" TO PLUG UP LEAK IN LEVEENEW ORLEANS - Four days after Hurricane Katrina wrought unprecedented devastatation to the U.S. Gulf Coast, President Bush arrived to console the jittery Big Easy in the wake of chaos and violence. The President addressed the refugees stranded at the Superdome: "We will hunt down, and we will kill the evildoers who did this thing."
After visiting the Superdome, the President said he wanted to "survey the destruction" sustained by Harrah's New Orlean's casino. In fact, the casino sustained only minor damage, but this did not deter the President. No reporters were permitted to accompany the President on his two hour visit inside the casino, but at one point a Presidential aide ran out of the building and returned a short time later with a bagful of quarters.
Before departing the city, the President paid one more visit -- to the home of rock 'n roll legend Fats Domino. Bush implored the 77 year old pioneer responsible for such classics as "Blueberry Hill" to become a "human cork" to plug up the leak in the levee that flooded the city. The singer immediately obliged and is seen in the above photograph being helped from a boat before he was physically placed in the hole where the levee broke. When asked about the devastation to his home town, Domino said, "Ain't that a shame!"
