During a conversation with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President George W. Bush recalled the moment he was told during a reading event with schoolchildren that a second airplane had struck the World Trade Center. ⁠ ⁠ “I didn’t have much time to process that but it was pretty clear to me that if we were under attack, then my job was to defend the child that was reading to me and her family and her country.”⁠ ⁠ #GeorgeWBush