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While reading stories to an elementary school class in Sarasota, Florida, President Bush learned of the terrorist attack in New York, Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper As then-Deputy Assistant Dan Bartlett points to news footage of the World Trade Center, President Bush gathers information about the attack from Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper As they watch live media coverage of the day's events in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, Vice President Dick Cheney and senior staff witness the collapse of the South Tower of World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by David Bohrer
Working with his senior staff, President Bush goes over the speech he will deliver to the nation later that evening from the Oval Office Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Paul Morse Laura Bush addresses the media in the Senate Russell Office Building Sept. 11, 2001. Standing with Mrs. Bush is Sen. Judd Gregg, left, and Sen. Edward Kennedy. White House photo by Moreen Ishikawa Vice President Cheney talks with his wife, Lynne Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the early afternoon after the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by David Bohrer
President Bush and his staff look out the windows from Air Force One at their F-16 escort while en route to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office, President Bush addresses the nation on the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper After White House staff had been sent home and the television cameras turned off, President Bush meets with his National Security Council in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in the late evening of Sept. 11, 2001. White House photo by Eric Draper

This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.  

President George W. Bush
September 11, 2001
 
 Presidential Response
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