Live Special Thread: President Bush On 60 Minutes 2 8 PM EST

CBS | 9-10-2003 | my favorite headache

[Endeavor]

I wish one of the tv/cable networks would replay the service at the National Cathedral that took place on Friday, September 14th.

[Peach]

I'm VERY surprised CBS isn't selling this tape. I'd give you one if I'd had the foresight to tape this.

[Dog]

Sheesh.....that is early.....:-)

[Peach]

That National Cathedral speech was one for the history books.

[justshe]

How does one say, "THANK YOU", and convey how much those 2 words really mean?

THANK YOU, Old Sarge.

[Peach]

Listening to President Bush explain how he knew the loved ones of the family members weren't going to be coming out.

"Just trying to provide a little hope."

[Fledermaus]

If any of you haven't seen "DC 9/11: Time of Crises" on Showtime I highly recommend it.

It will be on Sept. 11 at 8:00 pm EDT and again at 11:00 pm EDT. Also, on Friday 9/12 and Saturday 9/13 they will run it on various Showtime channels.

I taped it once but plan on taping it again on a new, good tape on slow speed.

I hope they get it onto DVD for sale sooner or later.

[Green]

Here is the text of the speech you mentioned.

President's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
The National Cathedral
Washington, D.C.


1:00 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: We are here in the middle hour of our grief. So many have suffered so great a loss, and today we express our nation's sorrow. We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who love them.

On Tuesday, our country was attacked with deliberate and massive cruelty. We have seen the images of fire and ashes, and bent steel.

Now come the names, the list of casualties we are only beginning to read. They are the names of men and women who began their day at a desk or in an airport, busy with life. They are the names of people who faced death, and in their last moments called home to say, be brave, and I love you.

They are the names of passengers who defied their murderers, and prevented the murder of others on the ground. They are the names of men and women who wore the uniform of the United States, and died at their posts.

They are the names of rescuers, the ones whom death found running up the stairs and into the fires to help others. We will read all these names. We will linger over them, and learn their stories, and many Americans will weep.

To the children and parents and spouses and families and friends of the lost, we offer the deepest sympathy of the nation. And I assure you, you are not alone.

Just three days removed from these events, Americans do not yet have the distance of history. But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing.

Our purpose as a nation is firm. Yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed, and lead us to pray. In many of our prayers this week, there is a searching, and an honesty. At St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Tuesday, a woman said, "I prayed to God to give us a sign that He is still here." Others have prayed for the same, searching hospital to hospital, carrying pictures of those still missing.

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that give us strength for the journey. And there are prayers that yield our will to a will greater than our own.

This world He created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end. And the Lord of life holds all who die, and all who mourn.

It is said that adversity introduces us to ourselves. This is true of a nation as well. In this trial, we have been reminded, and the world has seen, that our fellow Americans are generous and kind, resourceful and brave. We see our national character in rescuers working past exhaustion; in long lines of blood donors; in thousands of citizens who have asked to work and serve in any way possible.

And we have seen our national character in eloquent acts of sacrifice. Inside the World Trade Center, one man who could have saved himself stayed until the end at the side of his quadriplegic friend. A beloved priest died giving the last rites to a firefighter. Two office workers, finding a disabled stranger, carried her down sixty-eight floors to safety. A group of men drove through the night from Dallas to Washington to bring skin grafts for burn victims.

In these acts, and in many others, Americans showed a deep commitment to one another, and an abiding love for our country. Today, we feel what Franklin Roosevelt called the warm courage of national unity. This is a unity of every faith, and every background.

It has joined together political parties in both houses of Congress. It is evident in services of prayer and candlelight vigils, and American flags, which are displayed in pride, and wave in defiance.

Our unity is a kinship of grief, and a steadfast resolve to prevail against our enemies. And this unity against terror is now extending across the world.

America is a nation full of good fortune, with so much to be grateful for. But we are not spared from suffering. In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.

On this national day of prayer and remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now walk in sorrow. We thank Him for each life we now must mourn, and the promise of a life to come.

As we have been assured, neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, can separate us from God's love. May He bless the souls of the departed. May He comfort our own. And may He always guide our country.

God bless America.

END 1:07 P.M. EDT

[rdb3]

I'm defending you tonight. You're worth it.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I am taping it. I have all of it except the "open" part of the show. I will be glad to forward a copy to you for cost, if you assure me it will be used to teach kids the TRUTH that President Bush is head and shoulders above the Democrat Party Operatives who are bashing him all across America today.

Recovering_Democrat

[CyberAnt]

Brit was visible upset about this development - noting that on the 1st anniversary, President Bush was there and his presence seemed to be comforting to the families and Brit seemed to feel it would be the same for Cheney. You could tell Brit was not happy.

[Peach]

Thank you for posting that memorable speech. "But our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil."

[SES1066]

Just had a piece of the National Cathedral service and remembering how both that and the British St.Paul's Cathedral services moved me. I have emailed both to see if there were tapes available and never heard back from them. A note of further history is that it was said that the hymn "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" had never been sung there before and there was the Queen singing it (we call it the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"). I am going to try again to find these tapes - they are IMPORTANT!

Also the Canadians had a moving memorial at Parliment Square in Ottowa. Wish I still felt the same about our Canadian 'Allies' with their 'stringent' immigration policies that allow so many into Canada so easily!

[Dog]

Bloomberg dissed Cheney???

[Peach]

I cannot believe BLoomburg is such a jerk.

It would really upset me to hear that family members made this request directly.

Some people just don't know who to honor and how to sacrifice. As though a little delay at having the Vice President of the United States visit the site of the worst attack the country has ever suffered isn't worth a little wait.

[Dog]

CBS just veered off the tracks.....they attacked Bush.

[Peach]

See my #60 re BLoomburg dissing Cheney tomorrow at the service at the WTC.

[CyberAnt]

Me too! I have a picture from that event - it shows Bush walking back to his seat (his back is to the camera) - in the front row - his wife and parents are beaming at him - next to Barbara Bush is Clinton who is looking at Bush with the most horrible JEALOUS expression - while Hillary is looking straight ahead - and her expression is disgust. It really tells you how the Clintons feel about the Bush family and how much they hated the fact they were not the first family at that occasion.

[Peach]

That was completely unnecessary and CBS should NOT have done that.

What do ratings have to do with the historic events on a day of tragedy?

[Endeavor]

It was a beautiful service, and I literally felt the power of the military when we stood and sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" -- I say "we" because I stood in my living room while watching it being sung by the Navy (?) choir. And I sang every word of it, too, between tears and then cheers at the end.