september 10th 2001. the next morning i was a few steps behind her as the secret service shouted out all of us to a sprint out the front gates of the white house, because there was an inbound plane. in the difficult weeks that followed, ashley was a source of strength for president bush, and for everyone in this building. through bad days and so many better days since then, she has been a great wife and inspiring mom. i think god every day for my family. [applause] tomorrow i began meeting with members of the senate which
coached my daughters basketball teams. the girls on the team call me coach k. i am proud of our blessed sacrament team that just won the city championship. my daughters and i also go to lots of games. our favorite memory was going to the historic notre dame uconn women s basketball game at this year s final four. unforgettable. my wife ashley is a west texan. a graduate of abilene cooper public high school and the university of texas. she is now the town manager of our community. we met in 2001 when we both worked in the white house. our first date was on september
polygraph tests, there is overriding whistleblower protections and then of course big mismisses like t mish misses big mismisses like t mis like t shooting, multiple other things. and the larger issue here is that the fbi for all its power ultimately relies on trust and credibility for its success in recruiting informants, in getting witnesses, in cooperation with state and local law enforcement. and ultimately in convincing injury juries of the trut of the truft of the evidence about and they found that there has been a decline in the number of convictions each of the last five years for a total of an 11% drop in convictions over that period in fbi investigations. so bob huller took over as fbi director september 10th,
terrorist camp in the country. september 11th had just transpired, trying to figure out who and where the enemies were. what do you remember objeabout time and what do you make about the years since with this in mind? there are i have so many memories. september 10th, 2001, was my first day on the white house beat for the new york times, and it was the last normal day i had on the beat. the next day i walked into the office and i saw a plane had hit the world trade sent and my first thought was, oh, i won t have much to do today because that s obviously a big metro story for the times in new york, it s a big accident, by ie bureau, the second floor, a second plane hit. i knew this was terrorism. i went to the white house. by the time i got there, people were running out of the white house. it was being evacuated. i have lots and lots of memories of those days. i do remember there s a line i hadn t read that story for a long time until you sent
of course. so we know what it was about because of those notes. where rose marry woods took the fall for that one. elizabeth, a point of personal privilege here. looking back in our archives, 16 years ago today new york times, page one, elizabeth bu miller, washington, date line september 20th, president bush demanded tonight that afghanistan s leaders immediately deliver oh sam ma bin laden and his network and close down every terrorist attack in the country. that was your lead written on deadline. think about what kind of a place our country was september 11th had just transpired. we were still trying to figure out who and where the enemies were. what do you remember about that time and what do you make about the years since with this in mind? there are i have so many memories. september 10th, 2001 was my first day on the white house beat for the new york times