PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED CIRCA 2001 - HFSID 266520
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GEORGE W. BUSH
Signed part of a speech he made on September 11, 2001
Typescript signed: "G W. Bush", 1p, 6½x5½. In full: "Terrorist attacks can shake the
foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America." Typed
date: "September 11, 2001" at upper margin. Typed name: "George W. Bush-President" at
lower margin. This quote was taken from the speech made to the nation made by
President George W. Bush on the evening of September 11, 2001. At 8:46 a.m. on the
morning of September 11, American Airlines flight 11, with 81 passengers, two pilots and
nine flight attendants aboard, had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade
Center (the tower would collapse at 10:28 a.m.) A second hijacked airliner, United Airlines'
flight 175, carrying 56 passengers, two pilots and seven flight attendants, slammed into the
South Tower at 9:03 a.m. (this tower collapsed an hour and two minutes later, at 10:05
a.m.). In addition to the New York City attacks, another hijacked airliner, American Airlines
flight 77, with 58 passengers, two pilots and four flight attendants aboard, slammed into the
Pentagon at 9:45 a.m. (a large section of one side of the building would collapse at 10:10
a.m.) and another hijacked flight, United Airlines' flight 38, with 38 passengers, two pilots
and five flight attendants aboard, would crash in a wooded area in Pennsylvania after
passengers took action against the hijackers. President George W. Bush was in Sarasota,
Florida at the time of the attacks, reading to schoolchildren to promote his educational bill.
In light of alleged threats to the President, Air Force One and the White House, Bush flew
first to Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana and then to the U.S. Strategic
Command Center in Offutt, Nebraska before returning to Andrews Air Force Base at 6:34
p.m., ten hours after the attacks. The President addressed the nation at 8:30 p.m. that
evening, making the remarks typed on this page early in his speech. After making the quote
imprinted here, Bush then said: "The acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of
American resolve." He ended the speech by saying, "None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go
forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world." George W. Bush, born
in 1946, worked on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign before assembling
the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.He served as
managing general partner of the Texas Rangers until he was elected Governor of Texas on
November 8, 1994. Bush, who became the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to
consecutive four-year terms when he was re-elected in 1998, resigned on December 21, 2000,
having been elected 43rd President of the U.S. Reelected on November 2, 2004, Bush is
the only U.S. President to be reelected after succeeding a two-term President of the
opposing political party. Most recently, he paired up with fellow former
Commander-in-Chief Bill Clinton to conduct an in-depth interview with Time magazine and
regarding their plans for the coming year and their take on the 2016 election. This issue of
Time with Clinton and himself on the cover will be the 31st cover he has been on since June
21, 1999. Fine condition.
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