KING: Do you agree, Bob, with those guests tonight who said that this was more a commander in chief than a president? WOODWARD: Well, it was a war speech, and if you look at Bush and know Bush and observe him at all, there was one thing on his mind. It was 15 minutes into the speech. Then he finally mentioned something else, the economy, and that was only in passing. He is obsessed with this. Dan Balz and I who are doing this series for "The Post" about the first 10 days after 9/11 -- Dan and I went to interview Bush last month in the Oval Office, and it was supposed to be an hour. He was so interested in it, he postponed the speaker of the House coming so we could talk to him another half-hour. And this idea of Bush as somebody who doesn't do his homework or doesn't know what's going on was totally erased. He had NSC -- National Security Council minutes there. He read some of them to answer our questions. He went through specific meetings, specific moments, and decision points, and there was a kind of total commitment and energy on his part that you saw in the speech tonight.
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