The Veep Vaporized...

Last Friday evening, QD sat herself at the bar at the Lenox Lounge and had herself a cocktail. She fell into talking to a crusty old professor, who relayed
to her this little anectdote: While sitting in a cafe in Paris recently, The Prof. fell into conversation with
a waiter about the recent Hurricane in the US. The waiter asked the Prof:
Where is the vice president?" The Prof. said he was humiliated because that thought had never occured to him. Where was Cheyney, indeed?? So the Prof. told the waiter something like,
"Well you French are a bunch of anit-semites and your race relations are deplorable."
as a way to save face. But the waiter's question gave the Prof. pause, it did, and that's why he told QD the story.

Now here is Nora Ephron asking the same question without insulting the French ...

For some time I've been wondering whether anyone is going to explain the true mystery
of what happened after Hurricane Katrina struck. I read thousands of words on the subject
in this morning’s New York Times, and I still don’t get it. Where was the President?
And more to the point, where was the Vice President? (more)