Never-before seen photos of President Bush, VP Dick Cheney reacting to 9/11 terror attacks are released
Former Vice President Dick Cheney watches coverage of the 9/11 attacks in his office.
The pictures were taken by Cheney's professional photographer.
Former President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney talk in the President's Emergency Operation Room.
Cheney takes a call during an early morning meeting.
It's a new look at American leadership on one of the country's darkest days.
The National Archives on Friday released more than 350 never-before seen photos of former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, along with top members of the Bush administration, on Sept. 11, 2001, as they reacted to the most deadly attack in terrorism in American history.
The photos, all collected on a Flickr page from the National Archives, are the most exhaustive look yet into how President Bush and his colleagues handled a tragedy beyond imagination.
Many of the pictures, which were taken by Cheney’s professional photographer, show Bush and his colleagues in varying stages of shock and solemnity as they meet in the President’s Emergency Operations Center and around the White House.
Cheney yawns in an emergency meeting.
Staff members watch President Bush give an address about the attacks.
Cheney with National Security Administration director Condoleezza Rice.
Vice President Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney leave the White House.
The Cheney's talk abroad Marine Two, en route to Camp David.
But many of them also capture unexpected human details from that day: The plate of cookies in the meeting room; the yawns from Cheney and NSA director Condoleezza Rice. One picture shows Cheney watching TV coverage of the attacks in his office, with his feet on his desk. Cheney is also seen leaving the White House and abroad Marine Two en route to Camp David with his wife, Lynne Cheney.
The photos emerged thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from Colette Neirouz Hanna, a Boston-based producer connected to PBS’s “Frontline.” She told the Boston Globe the request wasn’t tied to a specific project, but “Frontline” might use them for a future film.
She told the paper she was “literally the second person to have submitted a FOIA request to the Cheney archive for materials” once they became available for request last year.
jsilverstein@nydailynews.com
Former Vice President Dick Cheney watches coverage of the 9/11 attacks in his office.
The pictures were taken by Cheney's professional photographer.
Former President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney talk in the President's Emergency Operation Room.
Cheney takes a call during an early morning meeting.
It's a new look at American leadership on one of the country's darkest days.
The National Archives on Friday released more than 350 never-before seen photos of former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, along with top members of the Bush administration, on Sept. 11, 2001, as they reacted to the most deadly attack in terrorism in American history.
The photos, all collected on a Flickr page from the National Archives, are the most exhaustive look yet into how President Bush and his colleagues handled a tragedy beyond imagination.
Many of the pictures, which were taken by Cheney’s professional photographer, show Bush and his colleagues in varying stages of shock and solemnity as they meet in the President’s Emergency Operations Center and around the White House.
Cheney yawns in an emergency meeting.
Staff members watch President Bush give an address about the attacks.
Cheney with National Security Administration director Condoleezza Rice.
Vice President Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney leave the White House.
The Cheney's talk abroad Marine Two, en route to Camp David.
But many of them also capture unexpected human details from that day: The plate of cookies in the meeting room; the yawns from Cheney and NSA director Condoleezza Rice. One picture shows Cheney watching TV coverage of the attacks in his office, with his feet on his desk. Cheney is also seen leaving the White House and abroad Marine Two en route to Camp David with his wife, Lynne Cheney.
The photos emerged thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from Colette Neirouz Hanna, a Boston-based producer connected to PBS’s “Frontline.” She told the Boston Globe the request wasn’t tied to a specific project, but “Frontline” might use them for a future film.
She told the paper she was “literally the second person to have submitted a FOIA request to the Cheney archive for materials” once they became available for request last year.
jsilverstein@nydailynews.com
