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Haley Barbour served two terms as governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He began his political career in 1968, dropping out of college to work on Richard Nixon's presidential campaign. In 1976, after supporting Ronald Reagan for the GOP nomination, he ran Gerald Ford's fall campaign in the Southeast. He later served as political director of the Reagan White House. From 1993 to 1997, Barbour served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee, managing the 1994 Republican surge that led to GOP control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. In this speech, he discusses his book "America's Great Storm: Leading Through Hurricane Katrina."