On board, President Bush and his aides argued about two competing interests-the need to return to Washington and reassure a nation and the competing need to protect the commander in chief. Bush, as well as 70 box lunches and 25 pounds of bananas-traversed the eastern United States. Shortly after the attacks began, the most powerful man in the world, who had been informed of the World Trade Center explosions in a Florida classroom, was escorted to a runway and sent to the safest place his handlers could think of: the open sky.įor the next eight hours, with American airspace completely cleared of jets, a single blue-and-white Boeing 747, tail number 29000-filled with about 65 passengers, crew and press, and the 43rd president, George W. But for a tiny handful of people, those memories touch American presidential history. Nearly every American above a certain age remembers precisely where they were on September 11, 2001. Graff ( is the author of The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, and a former editor of POLITICO Magazine.
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