Terrorism

On the evening of September 11, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld led a press briefing at the Pentagon to address the terrorist attack earlier that day, which included the hijacking and crashing of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon itself. Joined by top civilian and military…

On the morning of September 11, 2001, shortly after the second plane struck the World Trade Center, President George W. Bush gave brief public remarks at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, where he had been scheduled to promote education policy. In this first official…

On the evening of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush delivered a nationally televised address from the White House in response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon earlier that day. In this short but solemn statement, President Bush condemned the attacks as…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A Chapter From Our Past</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> American citizens held hostage by nationalist terrorists in a distant land. An aroused public calls for action. A cautious President seeks to avert violence. In 1901.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Terrorists armed with high explosives have been busy on our shores lately. America has weathered such attacks before.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A year after the September attacks, it has become clear that ours is a very old enemy.</span></p>

<p>The explosion at the Army Math Center blew in the window near my laboratory desk.</p>