President George W Bush

George W. Bush had been President of the United States for less than a year when the course of his tenure was transformed in a single morning. On September 11, 2001, as the sun rose into a clear blue sky, Bush found himself confronting the worst terrorist attack in American history. The nation watched as he learned of the attacks in a Florida classroom, a moment of dawning crisis. In the hours and days that followed, this relatively new president—born into one of America’s prominent political families but still carving out his own legacy—became the face of a nation’s grief and resolve. With a bullhorn in hand amid the rubble of Ground Zero, he promised a stunned country that those responsible would “hear from all of us soon.” It was a defining moment that would come to overshadow the rest of Bush’s presidency and sha ...