Pickles Worried Americans Will Become Impatient With Katrina Cleanup

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Laura Bush said Tuesday she is worried that Americans could turn away from the staggering need in the Gulf Coast before the effort to recover from Hurricane Katrina is done.

"That's going to be the hard part for everyone, and that is to sustain the amount of help that evacuees are getting to do the long, long hard work that's going to be required," Bush said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's particularly hard for Americans, because we're so impatient and we think that everything ought to be fixed yesterday."

The first lady sat down in the White House's stately Map Room to promote this weekend's National Book Festival, a daylong event on the National Mall that she has put on in concert with the Library of Congress for five years.

The festival has an added attraction this year: "Book Relief," a joint project between the Library of Congress and the nonprofit First Book to gather 5 million books to give to storm evacuees, libraries and schools in the hurricane region.

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1. I thought it was "Corinna." n/t

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2. next week

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