The Day That Defined A Presidency: Sept. 11, 2001
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As President Bush prepares to leave office in just over a week, admirers and detractors agree on just one thing — that memories of this presidency will be dominated by a single day: Sept. 11, 2001.
The pictures of that day are still vivid. The World Trade Center. The panic in New York City. The smoke billowing from the Pentagon. The crash site in Pennsylvania.
For President Bush, the first moments of the crisis seemed halting. He was reading to schoolchildren in Florida as his chief of staff whispered in his ear. The president's face seemed to go blank as he processed the horrible news.
A half-hour later, he made his first statement to the nation: "I have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act."
by Don Gonyea
The pictures of that day are still vivid. The World Trade Center. The panic in New York City. The smoke billowing from the Pentagon. The crash site in Pennsylvania.
For President Bush, the first moments of the crisis seemed halting. He was reading to schoolchildren in Florida as his chief of staff whispered in his ear. The president's face seemed to go blank as he processed the horrible news.
A half-hour later, he made his first statement to the nation: "I have ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act."
by Don Gonyea
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