Timeline of President Bush's Day

AP ^ | 9/11/2001

[Utah Girl]

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer provided details of President Bush's day Tuesday, Sept. 11. All times are EDT:

9 a.m. - Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla., school for speech. White House chief of staff Andrew Card tells him a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.

9:05 a.m. - Bush is visiting a second-grade class when Card whispers to him that a second plane has struck the towers. President delays plans to address the tragedy, deciding to get more information first.

9:30 a.m. - Bush meets privately with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who briefs him. He delivers first remarks on the tragedy.

10 a.m. - Aboard Air Force One en route to Louisiana, Bush calls Vice President Dick Cheney and puts America's military on a high alert status. Sifts through reports from staff, including erroneous report that a car bomb had struck the State Department. Gets news that plane has crashed near Pittsburgh.

11:40 a.m. - Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., where he makes series of telephone calls from a general's conference room. Tells Cheney in telephone call, ``It's the faceless coward that attacks.'' He also talks to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and New York Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

1:15 p.m. - Bush departs conference room for Air Force One in a camouflaged Humvee. Talks to Cheney again en route to Nebraska air force base and schedules a 4 p.m. meeting of his national security staff. Also talks to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki. ``I know your heart is broken and your city is strained and anything we can do, let me know,'' Bush says.

3:07 p.m. - Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

4:36 p.m. - Bush departs for Washington. En route, he calls first lady Laura Bush and says, ``I'm coming home, see you at the White House.'' Works with aides on his prime-time speech.

7 p.m. - Bush arrives at White House to prepare for address.

8:30 p.m. - Bush speaks to nation.

8:35 p.m. - Bush attends national security meeting.

10:21 p.m. - Meeting has ended. Secret Service radio squawks with news that Bush has gone home to bed: ``Trailblazer. Second floor of the residence.''

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Interesting that he spent an hour and a half at Offett, the SAC Command Center. Barksdale is also a SAC base.

[SmartBlonde]

I thought that was odd, too. Why go from one AFB to another? In fact, why not an AFB in FL? No SAC bases? I hope he doesn't go the 'justice' route - the American people will support 'retribution' and now's the time to get it.