Abstract
abandonment of its own people, and Houston represents a rare and courageous affirmation of humanity, responsibility, and hope. In the days of the deluge, with pathetically few exceptions (notably the heroism of the US Coast Guard), the governmental response to the older city's need was at best inadequate and more often criminally negligent. The norm has been inexplicable indifference, broken promises, aid presumably marshaled but as yet undelivered. Some three hundred miles to the west, the response of Houston was compassionate, bipartisan, generous, and smart-to my mind, the nation's single greatest act of civic heroism in recent years. Bill White, the city's Democratic mayor, and Robert Eckels, the
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