orchestrating between the president and the students, but when she told the students to take out their books the pet goat they reached under their chairs and that's when i went up to the president and whispered into his ear a second plane hit the second tower, america is under attack. >> and you did that so calmly, and then he reacted so calmly because you didn't want to alarm the children. you didn't want to -- for the media to start running with all kinds of questions and rumors because you wanted to protect the kids from being part of that horror. >> i was very focused on being cool, calm and collected, and i wanted to help the president make tough decisions without being driven by the emotions of the day and make southbound decisions, so i actually thought about my responsibilities and i was going to be very careful to tell him things we knew to be true and not overstate things and not to be contagious with