WASHINGTON – U.S. President George W. Bush was jogging around a Florida golf course before dawn when I first saw him on September 11, 2001.
As a reporter?traveling with Bush that day, I was covering what was expected to be a routine event with schoolchildren to promote his education policies. He had been president of the United States for less than eight months.
Within hours, the untested Bush was confronting the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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