#WorldatFive: As the 20th anniversary of September 11 approaches, Andrew Card, George W Bush’s chief of staff, recalls the day he had to deliver the news to the president. thetimes.co.uk/article/9-11-t…
“September 11, 2001 started as a perfect day,” he says. “There wasn’t a cloud in the sky over the entire continental United States. The president woke up to an easy day.”
Shortly before going out in front of a class of seven year olds at the Emma E Booker elementary school in Sarasota, Bush had been told by staff that a small prop plane had crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre.
Moments after Bush was greeted by the teacher, all in front of the travelling White House press pool, Card was informed that it was a commercial jetliner that had struck the north tower. And seconds later, that the south tower had also been hit, by a second plane. 
“He had been in office for eight months, but that was the day he became president,” Card recalls.
“I walked up to the president from behind, I leaned over and whispered into his right ear, ‘a second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack’.”
Read the full story: thetimes.co.uk/article/9-11-t…
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