Does the name Aaron Broussard ring a bell? He’s president of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. Think of Meet the Press, after Katrina, in 2005.

Mr. Broussard: It’s not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. It’s so obvious.

During that appearance, Broussard told a tale of a gentlemans’ mother in a nursing home being told each day from Monday to Friday that someone would come to get them, and her passing away after four or five days of false promises. The gentleman in question later told the press that he had encouraged the nursing home before the storm urging them to evacuate, and that he only called Monday, and that officials believed his mother passed away on that Monday. Russert confronted him in a later appearance.

I only mention this because Aaron Broussard was on the guest list for Tuesday night’s social dinner at the White House in honor of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, as released by the White House.

I guess everyone’s letting bygones be bygones.