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The moment when President Bush was informed about the 9/11 terrorist attack, 2001. On September 11, 2001, US President George W. Bush went to Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Florida to meet students and staff and to bring attention to his plans for education reform on what looked like a regular day. That all changed after 8:46 a.m. when hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Bush received the first report about the crash just before the president walked into a second-grade class which initially was said to have been a small propeller plane. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was informed right after the President went into the classroom that it was a commercial jetliner, even though they still thought it was an accident until the second plane hit the other tower. According to Andrew Card, Chief of Staff captured in the picture, this was how he reported the news to the president when they received news that the second tower was hit: “A second plane” — I was very very succinct, very purposeful with my diction — “A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.” Despite the president’s efforts, students knew something was wrong; they later said that the president’s face became red and serious, and his expression was “flabbergasted, shocked, and horrified”. After chatting with the students and their teacher, Bush deflected a Trade Center-related question from a reporter and began to learn about the magnitude of the attacks.