I read the quote from Blanco about Bush appealling to her to order a
mandatory evac in a copy of the Monday NO Times Picayune (the day of
the hurricane). Since then, I have seen two apocryphal statements that
she had decided to evacuate BEFORE Bush talked to her but no evidence
of this. The idea that she had decided to evac before she talked to
Bush is cantradicted by both her and Nagin being afraid to evac due to
buisiness and liability concerns the day before. Instead, she decided
to blame Bush by telling people (as quoted in the NO paper) just in
case an evac really was not needed. As it turns out, and evac really
was needed so Bush should get credit.