Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia site. I did not any of this: but whoever wrote it is 100.00% hilarious! On the morning of September 11, 2001, some time around 9:10, in front of a sign stating READING MAKES A COUNTRY GREAT, George Bush was reading the The Pet Goat while also listening to it being recited by a group of schoolchildren at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota County, Florida, just after White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that a second airplane had just hit the World Trade Center. Bush remained seated for roughly seven minutes and followed along as the children read the book. After spending about 20 minutes total with the children, Bush was scheduled to give a short press conference at about 9:30 a.m. At the conference inside the school, Bush made his first speech about the attacks and was later taken to a secure location by the Secret Service aboard Air Force One before returning to the White House later that evening.[2] Bushs critics, notably Michael Moore in his film Fahrenheit 9/11 - in which Moore erroneously named the book My Pet Goat - have argued that the fact that Bush continued reading the book after being notified that the attack was ongoing shows that he was indecisive.[1] A 9/11 Commission Staff Report entitled Improvising a Homeland Defense, without citing a specific source for the claim, reads: The President felt he should project strength and calm until he could better understand what was happening.[3] According to Bill Sammon in Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the White House, Bushs Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, at some point, was in the back of the classroom holding a pad on which he had written Dont say anything yet.[4] Sammon contends that, although Bush was not wearing his glasses, he was able to read this message, and it went unnoticed by the media. Sammon further states: Calm over here to E joy see a....xoxo
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 05:11:13 +0000
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