[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_cla
ssroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had
_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I
'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_we
re,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowle
dge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_
…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._
I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_me
ssage_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"
I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_
a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_la
ter_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_somethin
g_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Ti
me,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_u
s_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"becaus
e_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war
_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orl
ando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_th
e_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)]
,_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_w
hat_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_pre
sident's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16
/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],
_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_
under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Ri
chmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chie
f_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_ne
ws._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_r
ealize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as
_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_classroom_with_little_kids,_listeni
ng_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_
[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"blanched"_[Richmond_Times-Dispatch,_10/1/02],_"the_color_drained_from_the_president's_face"_[AP,_9/12/01_(D)],_he_"wore_a_bemused_smile"_[Orlando_Sentinel,_9/12/01],_"because_visibly_tense_and_serious"_[Time,_9/12/01],_and_so_on._Bush_later_recalled_his_own_reaction:_"I_am_very_aware_of_the_cameras._I'm_trying_to_absorb_that_knowledge._I_have_nobody_to_talk_to._I'm_sitting_in_the_midst_of_a_cla
ssroom_with_little_kids,_listening_to_a_children's_story_and_I_realize_I'm_the_Commander_in_Chief_and_the_country_has_just_come_under_attack."_[Telegraph,_12/16/01,_CBS,_11/1/02]_Asked_again_what_he_thought_after_he_heard_the_news,_Bush_said,_"We're_at_war_and_somebody_has_dared_attack_us_and_we're_going_to_do_something_about_it._I_realized_I_was_in_a_unique_setting_to_receive_a_message_that_somebody_attacked_us_…_[I]t_became_evident_that_we_were,_you_know,_that_the_world_had
_changed."_[CBS,_9/11/02]_]]]]]_[[[[Descriptions_vary_greatly_as_to_how_Bush_responded_to_the_news._It_is_said_he_"bla