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It's Monday, September 10th, 2001. President George W. Bush is in Jacksonville, Florida.
There's too many of our kids in America who can't read today.
Maybe not in this school.
But around the nation, there's just too many.
And now it's time to wage war on illiteracy for the young and to whip this problem early.
He's there promoting early childhood education, one of his key campaign issues
when he ran for president in 2000. Afterward, he goes to Sarasota, Florida, on the state's Gulf Coast.
The next morning, he's at Booker Elementary School for another education roundtable.
He's in a class with students as they're going through a reading lesson.
That morning, there are reports of some kind of plane crash in New York City, but details are pretty scarce.
Then, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card comes over and whispers something in the president's ear.
Camera shutters capture the moment.
I'm looking forward to give you breaking news from New York City where planes,
two planes, have hit both towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
The upper floors of the World Trade Center, 110 stories high each tower.
Bush leaves the classroom, goes to the school library, and gives a brief statement.
Today we've had a national tragedy.