This photograph was taken by White House photographer Eric Draper from aboard Air Force Once on September 11, 2001. Here, President George W. Bush looks out the window with members of his staff as F-16 Fighting Falcon military jets arrive to escort the presidential aircraft from above the Gulf Coast to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for refueling. Bush received news of the suspected terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York city while visiting Emma E. Brooker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, to take part in a reading demonstration. After delivering brief remarks at the school, Bush boarded Air Force One for his own protection, accompanied by roughly 65 advisors, security agents, and staff members. Pictured here from left: chief of staff Andy Card; press secretary Ari Fleischer; personal aide to the president Blake Gottesman; senior advisor Karl Rove; Situation Room director Deborah Loewer, and Dan Bartlett, deputy assistant to the president.
This photograph was taken by White House photographer Eric Draper from aboard Air Force Once on September 11, 2001. Here, President George W. Bush looks out the window with members of his staff as F-16 Fighting Falcon military jets arrive to escort the presidential aircraft from above the Gulf Coast to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for refueling. Bush received news of the suspected terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York city while visiting Emma E. Brooker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, to take part in a reading demonstration. After delivering brief remarks at the school, Bush boarded Air Force One for his own protection, accompanied by roughly 65 advisors, security agents, and staff members. Pictured here from left: chief of staff Andy Card; press secretary Ari Fleischer; personal aide to the president Blake Gottesman; senior advisor Karl Rove; Situation Room director Deborah Loewer, and Dan Bartlett, deputy assistant to the president.
