. . Witness: With President Bush After the Planes Hit on Sept 11 By Steve Holland and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON | Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:25am EDT Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/11/ us-sept11-bush-idUSTRE78A0O920110911
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/3q3g5sq . .(Reuters) - Two Reuters reporters traveled with George W. Bush on September 11, 2001 on what began as a feel-good trip to Florida to promote education.
.Here are some of their memories of that day, and those that followed, as they watched Bush's evolution from the leader of a country enjoying peace and prosperity to a wartime president.
. snip .Caught off guard by the hijacked plane attacks, Bush gave an initially halting response, and spent the day flying across the country on Air Force One fleeing some unseen enemy instead of returning immediately to Washington, moves that raised doubts about his leadership in the tumult of the crisis.
.Only days later, when he visited the smoking remains of the downed World Trade Center towers would the new president seem to regain his footing with a dramatic, impromptu speech atop a crumpled firetruck and a vow to punish the attackers.
. AIR FORCE ONE HEADS FOR POINTS UNKNOWN . Bush sped away from the school in a long motorcade. .According to the 9/11 Commission Report, the president learned of the attack on the Pentagon on his way to the airport and he grudgingly accepted the Secret Service's advice that he not return to Washington as he wished.
.Before we boarded the plane, a team of security agents and sniffer dogs checked the media pool at the foot of the stairs -- an unusual step as we'd already been screened once -- and one that suggested the Secret Service was taking no chances.
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