On the morning of September 11, 2001, “On Air Force One, Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, who was taking notes, recorded at 10:20 a.m. that the president [Bush] had told him–Fleischer–that he had authorized a shoot-down [of a plane approaching Washington D.C.].”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page xiv