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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Though it was far from perfect, a New York Times headline about FEMA's actions following the floods reads, In this emergency, agency wins praise for its response.
The tide was turning for FEMA's reputation.
President Clinton and I was talking about it in Governor Carnahan, Missouri.
James Lee Witt.
And I said, you know, Mr President.
We can't let people build back in those areas that flooded.
we bought out over four thousand pieces of property.
Thirty years later, this type of policy is considered a core tenet of good emergency management.
Recent studies vindicate Witt's approach.
Research shows that for every dollar spent on mitigation, six dollars are saved down the line.
During the 90s, FEMA had gotten to be so well known that in 1996, President Clinton publicly elevated James Lewitt to cabinet level, saying he's done
Such a great job here.
That's how it was.
You can probably tell from the way he talks about it, Leo Bosner was so proud of his agency during the nineties.
Some of its greatest work, he says, was visible on one of the darkest days for the country.
That April morning in nineteen ninety five were all at work like normal, all of a sudden
People are yelling 'cause on the TV screen, oh my God, there's been a bomb in Oklahoma City.
Within like a few minutes, my pagers going up and we're seeing all this action suddenly,
do.
And our search and rescue teams were then deployed there within a couple of hours.
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