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...wounded but defiant New York. On television, the reports came from Islamabad, not as they had a decade ago from Riyadh or Baghdad or Amman. And as predecessors in his high office--including his father--had done before, George W. Bush drove from the White House to the Capitol, and in an address to Congress and the watching world, discharged the weightiest responsibility that any President can ever be asked to shoulder. Americans, Bush said, had to prepare for a "lengthy campaign unlike any other we have ever seen." That this will be a real war was made explicit...
...their nationals in the World Trade Center. By Wednesday lunchtime, Hughes was convinced that her team had written a great speech. Bush agreed, and that day and the next, he practiced his delivery three times, marking changes with a black Sharpie pen. By the time he arrived at the Capitol Thursday evening after dining with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell, the President was as ready as he could possibly...
...with briefing books and scouting office space in the West Wing. Before he can figure out how to beat terrorism, however, he'll have to take on the turf-conscious Cabinet Secretaries and bureaucrats of the 40-plus agencies that share antiterrorism responsibility, as well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs," says former Senator Warren Rudman, the Republican co-chairman of a blue-ribbon commission on terrorism. "They start out with...
...been that way for two centuries. Dolley Madison spotted smoke from the burning Capitol with her little spyglass in 1814 and knew the British would be headed her way. She gathered up that spectacular Stuart portrait of George Washington and some silverware and fled into the hills of Maryland...
...security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided to end the day in Washington rather than in a NORAD bunker. On Friday he presided over a national day of prayer, giving prominent roles to people of all races and creeds, including a Muslim...