started walking down to the pea yok. george wanted to take the elevator, but the agents didn t think it was safe. so we had to descend flight after flight of stairs to the state floor, then the ground floor and below, while i held george s hand because i couldn t see anything. my heart was pounding and all i could do is count stairwell landings, trying to count off in my mind how many more floors we had to go. when we reached the peoc, i saw the outline of a military sergeant unfolding the ancient hideaway bed and putting on some sheets. at that moment, another agent ran up to us and said mr. president, it s ours, it s one of our own. larry: you weren t being attacked. that s right. it was the plane, the military cap that flew over washington for a long time after that, after september 11th. larry: in those days no flying anywhere. no iraq, war, criticism over her husband must have been tough for laura to hear. it s all ahead. a few years ago i got a wake up call.
come get us. so that night, i could hear somebody after we went to sleep, i woke up and i heard a man screaming as he ran, mr. president, mr. president, you ve got to get up. the white house is under attack. we jumped up out of the bed again, and i grabbed my robe and stuck my feet in my slippers, but i didn t stop to put on my contacts. george grabbed barney, and i grabbed kitty. with spot trailing behind, we started walking down. george wanted to take the elevator, but the agents didn t think it was safe. so we had to descend flight after flight of stairs to the state floor, then the ground floor and below, while i held george s hand because i couldn t see anything. my heart was pounding and all i could do is count stairwell landings, trying to count off in my mind how many more floors we had to go. when we reached the peoc, i saw the outline of a military sergeant unfolding the ancient hideaway bed and putting on some sheets. at that moment, another agent
larry: one week from tonight we have mick jagger. first, we welcome back laura bush. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted it to be very candid. i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did there is something cathartic about it. i saw things really for the first time with my vantage point, now, at my ag
one week from tonight we ve got mick jagger here for the hour. right now we welcome back former first lady laura bush to larry king live. we spent many hours together. her new book is spoken from the heart. a terrific read published by scriptners. you see its cover. you were such a private first lady. wasn t this hard for you to do? it actually was not. it was really great to have a chance to do this. i wanted to be very candid, i wanted it to be revealing. and i knew there were a lot of gaps that what reporters asked me about, all those eight years we were there, you know, didn t cover some of the things that were in this book. so i had a great time writing it. i went back home to midland when i started it. my mother still lives there, and went by all those houses my dad built. and the houses george and i lived in, and the schools we went to. larry: lived your life over. that s right. and i really did and there s something really cathartic about it. i saw things re
the white house is so tucked in that if that was really the first site or first intention of that hijacker, they went onto the pentagon. people hear the word bunker and they have a vision. describe what the bunker at the white house is like. it really is sort of like a bunker. it s deep below the white house in a basement. i think it was maybe added during truman or roosevelt during war. and it looks like it was added during truman or roosevelt. the furniture looks that old in it. there s a hideaway bed in it that the secret service told george and me they wanted us to spend the night there and george said no. he said i ve got to be in my own bed. i have to get sleep. he knew that everything had changed for him and for his presidency. and for our whole country after that terrorist attack. your life changed that way. everything we thought when george ran for president, he ran