In an interview with TV anchor Diane Sawyer, President Bush proclaimed confidently, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." The statement had about as much grounding in reality as one made a few days later by his mother, Barbara Bush, who was visiting Houston as part of Republican spin control and was favorably impressed with conditions inside the Astrodome: "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this is working very well for them," she said.