US President George Bush on September 11, 2001 being told the second World Trade Center tower had been hit and the five minutes that followed.

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On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday morning, President George W. Bush was in Florida to discuss education initiatives at an elementary school. But that visit was interrupted by the worst terror attack on American soil.

It was just after 9 a.m. – with students deep into their storybook, ‘The Pet Goat’ – when Chief of Staff Andrew Card interrupted the lesson to whisper something in the president's ear:

"A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."

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