NYT Clears Up Confusion With a Mistake
Common knowledge places former President George W. Bush inside a classroom reading The Pet Goat to second graders when he was told that planes had hit the World Trade Center towers. Countless reports have him reading about goats for seven minutes after he learned that planes struck the towers.
Well, only part of that is true. On Sept. 11, 2001, Bush was told about the first plane on the way into the school. Bush’s then-Chief of Staff Andrew Card famously informed him that the second plane hit as he was reading that children’s story.
Thankfully
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