Bush’s own recollection of the first crash only complicates the picture.
Sarasota elementary school principal Gwen Tose-Rigell is summoned to a room to talk with President Bush. She recalls, “He said a commercial
plane has hit the World Trade Center, and we’re going to go ahead and go on, we’re going on to do the reading thing anyway.” [Associated Press,
8/19/2002] Source
Less than two months after the attacks, Bush made the preposterous claim that he had watched the first attack as it happened on live television.
This is the seventh different account of how Bush learned about the first crash (in his limousine, from Loewer, from Card, from Rove, from Gottesman,
from Rice, from television).
On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: “How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?” Bush replied: “I was sitting outside the
classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower—the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there’s one
terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn’t have much time to think about it.” [White
House, 12/4/01]Source
We all remember Andy Card coming in and telling Bush that America was under attack. No Reaction from Bush.
Who was really in control? Certainly not Bush. In the back of the room, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer caught Bush’s eye and held up a pad of
paper for him to see, with “DON’T SAY ANYTHING YET” written on it in big block letters. [Washington Times,
10/7/02]Source
This pic is the situation room at the school, time unknown although there are some that have blown the picture up and say that the clock says 10.25am.
Bush boarded Air Force One at 9.55am !!
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