Transcripción (en)

That the president, you have to understand the hard decisions that this man had to make just like that. And one of them was what would happen if a plane was not properly identifying itself because every plane had become a missile. And so we were trying to land, I remember Norm Mineta, the transportation secretary, trying to land planes on a legal pad, yellow pad, legal pad. But you'd given the order through the vice president that should a plane not squawk properly, it should be shot down. General Cain, we thought initially, standing in that bunker, that that Flight 93 had been shot down by the American Air Force. Yeah, I thought it was the same thing. And there was this horrible moment where the vice president kept trying to get confirmation as to what had happened. And for about 10 minutes, we thought we'd shot down a civilian aircraft. And that always to me represented just how hard the decisions were that you had to take under a lot of pressure You know I got back to the White House I did find Laura I gave the speech And was upstairs asleep, and the Secret Service guy came charging into the bedroom and said, We've got to go. We're under attack. And I said, Okay. I grabbed Barney. Always Barney. Yeah. Laura's robe. and go down to the bowels of the White House and a young airman standing there said, oh, don't worry, sir, it's one of ours. So Dan Kane was flying back to Andrews Air Force Base, but he had the wrong transponder signal on. And the whole mechanism said final attack. Anyway, thank you, Dan. But then we got down there and the Secret Service told you that you should stay there. Yeah, I know it. Harry Truman bought the bed. It was a sofa bed that had not been open since the Cuban Missile Crisis, so he decided not to stay. Anyway, it was a weird day.