His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earns the trust and devotion of the armed services. His career began early at william mary. Not many known that he drove the Williamsburg James City School Bus when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts and that senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william mary in 1965, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys ranks to become its director. He served with president s of texas a m university from 20022006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense. As secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted president obamas request that he continue to lead in the cabinet, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s
Wednesday is the 18th affers of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. As a recent forl umh, andrew card talked about the moment when he informed former president bush as the president was reading a story to second graders in florida. You are going to be remembered forever for a scene that has been played over on television from time to time when 9 11 happened, you were with president bush i think in florida, is that right . Yes, a school in sarah sotea, florida. You whispered in his year that something happened, what did you whisper in his ear and what were you thinking . Ill put things in context. When we arrived at the school here was a buzz in the air and karl rove said. We arrived at this classroom that was converted into a White House Command Center and went into the classroom where the president was going to sit and i looked around and saw the second graders lined up ready to come into the school and all and saw a miss spelled word. I said cover up that word. Moment. Want a potato and i st