The idea of legislating for black economic empowerment was originally promoted by big white businessmen to ward off post-apartheid calls for nationalisation.

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White is a truck driver whose house in the Lower Ninth Ward is still uninhabitable.

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The aides set up shop in the Ward Room, a small, private conference room next to the White House mess in the West Wing basement.

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