On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, President Bush spoke from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska with his advisers in Washington, D.C., via videoconference. “Bush understood it [the terror threat] was not going to end and that his presidency as he knew it was over. ‘We are at a war against terror,’ he declared. ‘From this day forward, this is the new priority of our administration.’ ”
– Peter Baker, Days of Fire, Page 130