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View All Images- United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tommy Thompson makes a statement in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the hours following the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Attorney General John Ashcroft, FEMA Administrator Joe Allbaugh, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson make statements in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the hours following the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Thursday, January 24, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and President Vladimir Putin of Russia walk through Cross Hall together to address the media at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 13, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush reads over a draft of his State of the Union Address in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, January 24, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with Saud al-Faisal, foreign minister of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, September 20, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush speaks on a cell phone as he observes the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony at Rice-Enclose Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, February 8, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush listens to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell during a National Security Counsel (NSC) briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, February 13, 2002. From left to right: Secretary Powell; White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card; National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice; the President; and White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush prays with troops before sharing Thanksgiving dinner at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Wednesday, November 21, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush receives a briefing during a National Security Council (NSC) meeting inside the Situation Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, October 2, 2001. From the President's left: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice; Central Intelligence Agancy (CIA) Director George Tenet; White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card; Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley; Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby; U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney; and President Bush. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- Counselor Karen Hughes and Counsel Alberto Gonzales follow United States President George W. Bush into the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush visit soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Wednesday, November 21, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Tina Hager - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 8, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush talks privately with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell inside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 7, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with American aid workers Heather Mercer, left, and Dayna Curry in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday, November 26, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush prepares for his State of the Union Speech on the colonnade outside the Oval Office with speech writer Mike Gerson and Counselor Karen Hughes, Tuesday, January 29, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with White House staff shortly before meeting with the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan Nov. 28. Visible in the photo are U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush hosts a meeting with his domestic policy staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. decorated with the new presidential rug on Thursday, December 20, 2001. The rug, which is unique to the Bush administration, arrived earlier in the week and was unveiled to the media on Friday December 21, 2001. Members from the Office of Homeland Security and other White House staff attended the meeting. The participants included (clockwise from the bottom), President George W. Bush, Governor Tom Ridge, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Admiral Steve Abbot, Karen Hughes, Dean McGrath, Karl Rove, Albert Hawkins, Mitch Daniels, Josh Bolton, and Andy Card. White House Photographer Paul Morse is at left. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush looks over a brief with Counselor Karen Hughes in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday, October 8, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush visits with some of the crewmembers aboard the USCG Tahoma in Portland, Maine, Friday, January 25, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush signs the Afghan Women and Children Relief Act of 2001 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Tina Hager - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush talks privately with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, September 20, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 7, 2001. Also visible in the photo are U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush welcomes Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 7, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush starts a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, October 11, 2001. From left to right: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson; U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell; the President; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush addresses servicemen of the USS Enterprise and their families on the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, Friday, December 7, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- Standing from left to right, Governor Tom Ridge, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain, First Lady Laura Bush, and New York Mayor Rudolph Gilliani applaud United States President George W. Bush's address to a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 20, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, far right, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, center, and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, December 12, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush hosts a visit by Bob Beckwith and his family to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday, February 25, 2002. Mr. Beckwith is the firefighter who stood with the President on top of a crushed fire engine at Ground Zero September 14, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- Led in prayer by United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, U.S. President George W. Bush joins his Cabinet in bowing their heads before beginning their meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan and senior staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 28, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C. following his Executive Order regarding United States financial sanctions against terrorist networks, Monday, September 24, 2001 as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, right, and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul ONeill, center, listen at his side. Mandatory Credit: Tina Hager - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush prepares for his State of the Union Address in the White House Family Theater, Monday, January 28, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain and senior staff in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 28, 2001. Also visible in the photo are U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush dines with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office Dining Room, Friday, February 1, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice (left), White House Chief of Staff Andy Card (center) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet (right) at Camp David, Maryland, Saturday, September 29, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with military personnel aboard the USS Enterprise in Norfolk, Virginia, Friday, December 7, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush meet with Hamid Karzai, Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority (far left), and Dr. Sima Samar, Minister of Women's Affairs (center, right) at the U.S. Capitol prior to delivering his State of the Union Address, Tuesday, January 29, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- After attending a memorial service at Ground Zero in New York, New York, on Sunday, November 11, 2001, United States President George W. Bush gives a thumbs-up sign to the working construction crews. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush visits with firefighters at Engine Co. 55 in New York City, Wednesday, October 3, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet (far left), U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (center) and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office of the White house in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, October 7, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with President Ali Abdallah Salih of Yemen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, November 27, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush welcomes the Chairman of the Afghan Interim Authority Hamid Karzai to the Oval Office, Monday, January 28, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan attend the September 11th Observance at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks, Sunday, November 11, 2001. New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, center, and New York Governor George Pataki are also pictured. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush greets troops at Elgin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, Monday, February 4, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets one-on-one with firefighters after attending a memorial service in New York, New York on Sunday, November 11, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- President George W. Bush gives a thumbs-up sign to a cheering crowd just before throwing the ceremonial first pitch for Game 3 of the World Series in Yankee Stadium, New York, Tuesday, October 30, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush talks with the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces after a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 24 2001. Pictured, from left to right, are Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Mies, U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki, U.S. Marine General Peter Pace and U.S. Air Force General Michael Williams. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and President Jacques Chirac of France talk while walking along the colonnade at the White House, Tuesday, November 6, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Tina Hager - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush greets fans and athletes at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony at Rice-Enclose Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, February 8, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- Walking past flags representing countries supporting America's fight against terrorism, United States President George W. Bush approaches the podium during a South Lawn ceremony on the six-month anniversary of the September terrorist attacks at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Monday, March 11, 2002. Mandatory Credit: Paul Morse - White House via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice inside his office at Camp David, Maryland, Sunday morning, September 16, 2001. Mandatory Credit:
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- The Washington, DC area under seige after the terrorism attacks in New York and at the Pentagon on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- This aerial photograph of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. taken on Friday, September 14, 2001, shows some of the destruction caused when the high-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- The effects of the blast and the fire caused when the hi-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001, are evident in this Friday, September 14, 2001, photograph. The office was in the section of the Pentagon slated to be renovated next. Offices in the newly renovated section survived the blast and the fire much better. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Security on the roof of the White House following the terrorist bombings at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- A piece of white paper is attached to the base of the Columbus Fountain at Washington's Union Station for people to write tributes to the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Wednesday, September 12, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- The effect of a flash fire in this fourth floor office inside the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. is shown in this Friday, September 14, 2001, photograph. Damage to the Pentagon was caused when the high-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Firetrucks pour water onto the damaged part of the Pentagon following the terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, fire fighters, rescue workers and engineers work at the Pentagon crash site on Friday, September 14, 2001, where a hi-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- Reverend Dr. Billy Graham delivers a sermon during the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Senators Jon Corzine (Democrat of New Jersey), Chuck Schumer (Democrat of New York) and Joe Lieberman (Democrat of Connecticut) sit among the police and firemen attending the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush makes remarks at the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- "The Pentagon is functioning" was the message Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stressed during a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room barely eight hours after terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jetliner into the national military headquarters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Pictured left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia). Mandatory Credit: Bob Houlihan - DoD via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Damage to The Pentagon following the terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Vice President Dick Cheney, right, speaks to U.S. President George W. Bush by phone inside the operations center at the White House with staff, Tuesday afternoon, September 11, 2001. Visible in the photo are advisors Karen Hughes, left, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, center. Credit: David Bohrer - White House via CNP
- Washington, D.C. - September 11, 2001 -- Helicopters patrol over the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. during the fire caused by the terrorist attack on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- "The Pentagon is functioning" was the message Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stressed during a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room barely eight hours after terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jetliner into the national military headquarters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Pictured left to right: Secretary of the Army Tom White, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia) and U.S. Senator Carl Levin (Democrat of Michigan). Mandatory Credit: Bob Houlihan - DoD via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush tours the World Trade Center disaster site aboard Marine One with New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, left, and New York Governor George Pataki, Friday, September 14, 2001. Mandatory Credit: Eric Draper - White House via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Damage to the Pentagon following the terrorist attack in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Many present and former government officials attended the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Former United States Presidents Jimmy Carter, Gerald R. Ford, and former Vice President Al Gore sat in the third row behind U.S. President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat of New York), and Chelsea Clinton. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat of South Dakota) and U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (Republican of Illinois) are in the lower left corner of the photo. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush briefs members of Congress in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.on the terrorist attack in New York and Washington on Wednesday, September 12, 2001. Left to right: U.S. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (Democrat of Missouri); Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenent; Speaker of the U.S. House Dennis Hastert (Republican of Illinois); President Bush; U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat of South Dakota). Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Washington, D.C - September 11, 2001 -- Damage to the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. several hours following the terrorist attack on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Sign in the Washington Metro system detailing the security alert following the terrorist bombing at the Pentagon on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, fire fighters, rescue workers and engineers work at the Pentagon crash site on Friday, September 14, 2001, where a high-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush leaves the pulpit following his remarks during the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush stand next to the President's parents, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush during the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- This aerial photograph shot on Friday, September 14, 2001, shows some of the destruction caused when the high-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Fire in the windows of the Pentagon following the terrorist attack in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, fire fighters, rescue workers and engineers work at the Pentagon crash site on Friday, September 14, 2001, where a hi-jacked American Airlines flight slammed into the building on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attack caused extensive damage to the west face of the building and followed similar attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Credit: Department of Defense via CNP
- United States President George W. Bush shakes hands with former U.S. President Bill Clinton as he arrives at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001 for a prayer service. Chelsea Clinton and her mother, U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat of New York) look on. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush makes remarks at the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush bows his head in prayer during the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Left to right across the photo are U.S. President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, former President George H.W. Bush, former First Lady Barbara Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat of New York) Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Former United States President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalyn Carter and former United States President Gerald R. Ford and former first lady Betty Ford depart the Washington National Cathedral following the National Day of Prayer Service in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001.
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Traffic on Pennsylvania Ave looking towards the United States Capitol following the terrorist attack on the Pentagon on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- TV cameras aimed at the side of the Pentagon that is still on fire following the terrorist attack on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Injured person is transported out of The Pentagon in a makeshift ambulance on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush meets National Security Advisors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. to develop a stratrgy for responding to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on Wednesday, September 12, 2001. Left to right: Attorney General John Ashcroft; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Secretary of State Colin Powell; President Bush; Vice President Dick Cheney; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Henry Shelton; and National Security Advisor Condolezza Rice. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States President George W. Bush bows his head in prayer during the National Day of Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 14, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Heavily armed police patrol the parking lot around the Pentagon following the terrorist attack on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- "The Pentagon is functioning" was the message Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stressed during a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room barely eight hours after terrorists crashed a hijacked commercial jetliner into the national military headquarters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Pictured left to right: Secretary of the Army Tom White, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and U.S. Senator John Warner (Republican of Virginia) and U.S. Senator Carl Levin (Democrat of Michigan). Mandatory Credit: Bob Houlihan - DoD via CNP
- Washington, DC - September 11, 2001 -- Firefighters pour water on the Pentagon where the terrorist attack occured in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Attorney General John Ashcroft makes a statement in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the hours following the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Federal Emergency Manpower Administrator (FEMA) Joe Allbaugh makes a statement in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the hours following the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP
- United States Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta makes a statement in the White House Briefing Room in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the hours following the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP `