Michael Loewinger
speaker
1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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January.
February, if you're on the white team, you're on call.
Then he even breaks it down into night shifts and day shifts.
Now, this does not take like a PhD in higher mathematics to come up with this.
And people could say, God, this is common sense, and my answer is yeah, but nobody did it did it before.
And when did you get a sense that like people out there in the public were taking notice?
Well, there was one of the other really smart things
That Mr.
Witt did.
Back in the Cold War days, FEMA kept the news media at bay, like go away, keep out, keep out, keep out.
And so that just added the suspicion.
Well Witt opened the doors to it.
The news media could come into our emergency operations center right there in Washington, DC, and they could observe things and they could even interview us.
Witt relished speaking with the press.
He seemed to genuinely want to explain how the agency worked.
Within a year of joining FEMA, he began chipping away at its secret black budget, declassifying much of that doomsday planning and diverting a whole bunch of its resources to natural disasters.
The agency began to see the fruits of all these new reforms during Witt's first major test as administrator.
It started in nineteen ninety three with the flood on the Mississippi River.
affected nine states.
And the devastation was
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