Bush Meets Blacks Behind Closed Doors

By Dan Froomkin

Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, December 9, 2005; 5:36 PM

After five years of frosty relations between the White House and the NAACP, the civil rights organization's new president, Bruce S. Gordon, has met with President Bush twice in the past three months -- and at the second meeting, just this week, he brought eight other black leaders with him.

The continued, widespread anger in the African American community about Bush's lackluster response to Hurricane Katrina is certainly one factor in the White House's new outreach effort.