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...most wrenching day of George W. Bush's life. The Twin Towers had crashed to the ground, and the Pentagon had gone up in flames. The President was aloft in Air Force One, staying out of harm's way and dealing with the crisis. He spoke with Vice President Dick Cheney every 30 minutes. The two men were concerned that passenger flights still heading toward Washington might be part of the terrorist plot. Bush, sources tell TIME, had to decide whether to authorize the military to shoot down the planes, loaded with civilians, if they proved to be threats. Bush...
...gathering was too august for this occasion, of course, and indeed this joint session was super-charged, adding Rudy Giuliani and Tony Blair while subtracting Dick Cheney and Dick Armey just in case, though the helicopters circled overhead...
Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with a stern warning for Afghanistan and the Taliban, which has harbored bin Laden since 1996. Bin Laden has already been indicted in the U.S. on charges of masterminding the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa...
...Thursday morning, Sept. 13: The country's most powerful legislators gathered together on couches and chairs in Speaker Dennis Hastert's private office in the Capitol. Hastert and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt sat together on a couch. In the previous two days, they had talked to each other more than they had in the entire past year. (So bitter had been their political feuding in the past, when Hastert had information to pass along to Gephardt he had Minority Leader Dick Armey make the phone call.) Now Hastert and Gephardt sat side by side - grumpy...
...evening before, Vice President Dick Cheney had handed Hastert a joint resolution authorizing the use of force. The leaders discussed whether Congress should go even further and approve a declaration of war. "Wait a minute," one of the leaders in the Hastert meeting said. "You realize the insurance companies won't pay." Silence in the room. It was true: Most insurance policies are written in a way that exempts the companies from paying for damages in a declared war. Congress, suddenly, was faced with a stark realization. A declaration of war could end up allowing the insurance companies to wiggle...