During the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush was in a school in Florida. He was at a school named is E. E. Booker Elementary School. The title of the piece that he was reading to the inner-city first graders was “The Pet Goat”. He was listening to the children as they recited the story back to him. That morning, around 9: 10, in front of a sign stating "Reading Makes a Country Great", White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that a second airplane had just hit the World Trade Center. Though he received that information, the President remained seated for several minutes and still read along with the children. At around 9: 30 in the morning, he was scheduled to give a press conference. It was in the school that he gave the presscon about the attacks. It was after that speech that he was taken to a secure location by the Secret Service aboard Air Force One. This happened before he was taken to the White House later that evening.
<span>Presidents often use executive agreements to sidestep the constitutional "advice and consent" of the senate that is required for formal ratification of treaties. In short, the president can decide what law must be passed without ratifying it by the senate. But this kind of agreements, without the senates's consent is still legally binding so long as the agreement itself is not illegal with regards to the laws of the congress.</span>
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