UPDATE: That's exactly what happened. They did it for Rehnquist today, within hours of his death, and realized it would look rather callous not to do it for the hurricane victims a week AFTER the hurricane. So they did both today. The hurricane victims were a CYA afterthought. Lovely.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050904-2.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050904-3.html
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