Visiting Capitol Hill on the morning of September 11, 2001, to brief the Senate Committee on Education, First Lady Laura Bush, seen between Senator Judd Gregg and her host Senator Edward Kennedy (right top) offers words of support and comfort to victims of the terrorist attacks in New York City and to their families and the first responders. After hearing of the attack on the Pentagon and watching news of the unfolding events on a television in Senator Kennedy’s Office ( beside Andi Ball, bottom), Mrs. Bush is escorted out of the Russell Senate Office Building by the Secret Service and evacuated to an undisclosed location (opposite).
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