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Witness History: With the president on 9/11

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With the President on 9/11

08/09/2021 GMT

With the president on 9/11

BBC World Service - Witness History, With the president on 9/11

How the White House chief-of-staff broke the news of 9/11 to President George W Bush.

The al-Qaeda attacks against America took place on the morning of September the 11th 2001. The news was broken to the US President, George W Bush by his Chief of Staff Andrew Card, as he was on a visit to an elementary school.  Simon Watts reports. This programme was first broadcast in 2020.

(Photo: President George W. Bush shortly after learning of the 9/11 attacks. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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