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Finding Aid

2016-0137-F: Records on President George W. Bush’s Address to the Nation on the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

Scope and Content

The materials in FOIA 2016-0137-F are a selective, not necessarily all inclusive, body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials.

FOIA 2016-0137-F contains materials related to speech drafts of President George W. Bush’s Address to the Nation on the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

This FOIA primarily contains clippings of both the remarks made in Sarasota, Florida, regarding the attacks, as well as those remarks delivered at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana that day.

Extent

3 folders, approximately 2 pages

Provenance

Official records of George W. Bush’s presidency are housed at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act.

Folders and Documents

Records Management, White House Office of

Subject Files - SP591 (Leadership Forum at Justina Rd. Elementary School, Jacksonville, FL, 09/10/2001 / Remarks at Emma Booker Elementary School and Remarks on Terrorist Attacks on WTC, Sarasota, FL, 09/11/2001) Subject Files - SP591-01 (Remarks on the Terrorist Attacks at Barksdale AFB, LA, 09/11/2001)

Staff Member Office Files

Staff Secretary, White House Office of the - Miers, Harriet E. - Presidential Remarks
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