For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 11, 2001
Remarks by the President After Two Planes Crash Into World Trade Center
Emma Booker Elementary School
Sarasota, Florida
Listen to the President's
Remarks
9:30 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and
gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I,
unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my
remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the Lt. Governor will take
the podium and discuss education. I do want to thank the
folks here at Booker Elementary School for their hospitality.
Today we've had a national
tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade
Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I
have spoken to the Vice President, to the Governor of New York, to the
Director of the FBI, and have ordered that the full resources of the
federal government go to help the victims and their families, and to
conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks
who committed this act.
Terrorism against our nation will not
stand.
And now if you would join me in a moment
of silence. May God bless the victims, their families, and
America. Thank you very much.
END 9:31 A.M. EDT
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