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...utterly, he paced behind his desk during a photo-op phone call with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accepting the mayor's invitation to tour his city's wreckage. Bush looked like a nervous teenager making weekend plans, especially in contrast to Giuliani, who was magnificent during New York City's darkest hour. (He had worn a New York fire department cap, and he deserved to wear it.) But this very bad Bush moment was immediately followed by the first very good Bush moment, in which he showed the humanity and resolve--choke up, swallow and keep going, just like everyone else...
Those who witnessed the events of Sept. 11 will never forget them, even if they wish to. How can we commemorate one of the darkest days in American history? TIME asked some visionaries and populists how to mark a day like no other...
...years ago, Frederick K.K. Du Puy 03 gained notoriety by traversing the Yard with legs clad only in khaki shorts even in the coldest, darkest depths of winter. FM recently spoke to Rick about his status as a campus pseudo-celebrity, the rationale behind all-season short-wearing and his advice for the new generation of eccentric dressers...
George W. Bush, President of the United States at the darkest hour almost any of its citizens can remember, pronounces the word terror "terra." He's helpless with Latin. And he still needs work on waiting out his applause. But Thursday night, in front of the U.S. Congress and the nation, eight months to the day after he took office following an election that was pretty dark itself, Bush delivered the finest, strongest, clearest, several-times-chill-giving speech of his life. Here...
...utterly, he paced behind his desk during a photo-op phone call with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accepting the mayor's invitation to tour his city's wreckage. Bush looked like a nervous teenager making weekend plans, especially in contrast to Giuliani, who was magnificent during New York City's darkest hour. (He had worn a New York fire department cap, and he deserved to wear it.) But this very bad Bush moment was immediately followed by the first very good Bush moment, in which he showed the humanity and resolve?choke up, swallow and keep going, just like everyone else...