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No one alive on September 11, 2001 will ever forget the shock and horror of that day, most especially the man who was recently elected the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush. Was he prepared to meet the moment? Elizabeth Spalding, senior fellow at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, describes the path that brought him to that day.
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Transcript:
George W. Bush: From Texas to Ground Zero
Presented by Elizabeth Spalding
No one alive on September 11, 2001 will ever forget the shock and horror of that day.
The unthinkable happened: radical Islamic terrorists hijacked American airplanes and crashed them into buildings in New York and Washington, DC, murdering three thousand innocent people.
The attack shattered Americans’ sense of security.
Surely another assault was coming. But when? Tomorrow? Next week? Next month?
The question preoccupied the nation’s commander-in-chief, the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush.
If he had anything to say about it, “the inevitable” would never happen.
George Walker Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on July 6, 1946. Although he came from a prominent New England and proud Republican family, his character was formed by his upbringing in Midland Texas, where his father and future U.S. President George H.W. Bush built a successful oil business.
A blue blood with a cowboy spirit, young George went to Yale and later Harvard Business School.
But instead of hitting the books, he hit the booze.
Not surprisingly, his grades suffered.
After graduating, he went into the Texas oil industry.
But unlike his father, he didn’t find oil.
He did, however, find love. In
