George W

Events (1539)

• (9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Informed of the First Plane Crash, Bush Goes Ahead with Photo-Op 2001-09-11
• (9:01 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Claims to See First WTC Crash on Television while at Elementary School 2001-09-11
• 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush’s Security Agents Watch Second WTC Crash on Television; Bush Continues with Photo-Op 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.-9:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Enters Classroom Photo-Op, Still Claims to Think WTC Crash Is Accidental 2001-09-11
• (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Fighters Do Not Have Shootdown Authority 2001-09-11
• (9:04 a.m.-9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Members of Bush’s Entourage Are Concerned about the Vulnerability of the President While He Is at the School 2001-09-11
• (9:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Told WTC Hit Again and US Is Under Attack; He Continues Photo-Op 2001-09-11
• (9:06 a.m.-9:16 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Reads Pet Goat Story for Nearly Ten Minutes; Warned Not to Talk 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:07 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Press Secretary Fleischer Holds Up a Message, Instructing President Bush to Say Nothing about the Attacks 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:16 a.m. and 9:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Still Does Not Evacuate Bush From School, Allegedly at the President’s Insistence 2001-09-11
• (9:16 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Takes His Time Leaving Classroom Photo-Op 2001-09-11
• (9:16 a.m.-9:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Works on Speech with Staff; Makes No Decisions 2001-09-11
• (9:29 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins High Level Conference Call 2001-09-11
• 9:29 a.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush Makes a Scheduled Speech; Proclaims Terrorist Attack on Our Country 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush on 9/11: ‘This Is a Great Opportunity’ 2001-09-11
• (After 9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Finally Rushes President Bush Out of School 2001-09-11
• (9:34 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Leaves Booker Elementary School for Sarasota Airport, Initially Heading in Wrong Direction; Possible Threat En Route 2001-09-11
• (9:34 a.m.-11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President’s Attempts at Communicating with White House Severely Hindered 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:35 a.m. and 9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Chief of Staff Possibly Learns of Threat to Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:35 a.m. and 9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service Is Worried that President Bush Could Be Attacked on His Way to the Airport 2001-09-11
• (9:45 a.m.-9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Tells President Bush to Stay Away from Washington 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:38 a.m. and 9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Bush Learns of Attack on Pentagon 2001-09-11
• 9:43 a.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush Reaches Sarasota Airport and Boards Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (9:44 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Requests Protection for His Family 2001-09-11
• (9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Bush Aides Debate Where to Fly Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:45 a.m. and 9:58 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Condoleezza Rice Calls President Bush, Tells Him Not to Return to Washington 2001-09-11
• (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Has Problems Communicating with Washington while He Is on Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (9:54 a.m.-6:54 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush and His Entourage Have Difficulty Following Events on TV due to the Poor Reception on Air Force One 2001-09-11
• After 9:55 a.m. September 11, 2001: Ellington Fighters Airborne on Local Training Mission 2001-09-11
• (9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force One Gets Airborne Without Fighter Escort 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Bush and Cheney Confer; Bush Supposedly Gives Shootdown Authorization 2001-09-11
• (9:56-10:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force One Takes Off, Then Flies in Circles While Bush and Cheney Argue 2001-09-11
• Early 2001-September 11, 2001: Bush Administration Loses Interest in Apprehending Taliban-Linked Arms Dealer Victor Bout 2001-09-11
• 10:00 p.m. September 11, 2001: Bush Looks Beyond Attacking Just Al-Qaeda; Rumsfeld Sees 9/11 Attacks as Opportunity to Attack Iraq 2001-09-11
• After September 11, 2001: NSA Begins Huge Data Mining Project Similar to ‘Total Information Awareness’ 2001-09-11
• (4:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Bush Determined to Return to Washington, Despite Advice of Secret Service 2001-09-11
• September 12, 2001: Bush Calls 9/11 Attacks ‘Acts of War’ 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Top Bush Officials Privately Decide to Focus on Al-Qaeda First, then Alleged State Sponsors of Terrorism like Iraq 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Threat to Air Force One? Stories Conflict 2001-09-12
• 6:00 p.m. September 12, 2001: Bush Tells Pentagon Audience that US Is at War; Urges Broad Military Response 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Historians Question President Bush’s Failure to Immediately Return to Washington after Attacks 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Ashcroft Not Highly Concerned about Following Procedures So Captured Terrorists Can Be Put on Trial 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: CIA Briefing to President Bush Lays Out Evidence of Bin Laden Responsibility for Attacks 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Bush to Clarke: ‘Look into Iraq’ 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Bush Meeting Raises Iraq Attack Possibility 2001-09-12
• September 13, 2001: Bush and Saudi Ambassador Discuss Evacuating Saudis and Terrorist Renditions 2001-09-13
• September 13-22, 2001: Russia Fails to Stop US Expansion into Central Asia, Strikes Deal 2001-09-13
• September 13, 2001: CIA Presents President with Plan to Confront Global Terrorism; Claims Victory Can Be Achieved in Weeks 2001-09-13
• September 13, 2001: NSA Begins Domestic Surveillance of International Telephone Communications 2001-09-13
• September 13, 2001: Hayden Tells NSA Agency Must Do More to Protect US from Terrorist Attacks 2001-09-13