b'The Day Before The World ChangedOn September 10, 2001, President Those in contact with Bush in the hoursGeorge W. Bush strolled into The Colony and minutes leading up to and during theBeach & Tennis Resort Dining Room, attacks became part of history, witnessingafter a flight aboard Air Force One. It was a president just before his definingthe night before his visit to Emma E. moment. Some witnessed that moment asBooker Elementary to promote a literacy it happened, as Bush learned of theprogram.attacks at Booker.When the president pulled up to The president made his first addressThe Colony in his armored, black limou- to the nation from the school. Thesine, Katherine Klauber Moulton, manag- Colony, where the president and his staffhad stayed the night before, was nowbeing used by the Bush administration asan information center during the disaster.They had evacuated all the govern-ment buildings, said Moulton. At one CAI has resources andpoint, as the attacks unfolded, a SecretService agent told her: This is the tem- essential information toporary White House.! share with HOA,condominium, andco-op residents to helpnavigate the impact ofPresident George W. Bush with KatherineKlauber Moulton and Murray Murf COVID-19 in yourKlauber at The Colony Resort & TennisClub, September 10, 2001. community association.er of the upscale resort, was there to greet Some topics covered online:him. Welcome, Mr. President, she said. Click this link toWe are very pleased to have you.Bush greeted everybody there, access articlesincluding a few staffers pushed into a side Chief of Staff Andrew Card whispers to https://www.caionline.org/Pages/room. His mood was great. At 6:30 p.m., then-President George W. Bush of theattacks on the World Trade Center, Coronavirus.aspxBush got on an elevator operated by September 11, 2001.maintenance man Kenny Kufahl, whoflubbed the controls.He said, Son, relax a minute,Kufahl recalled Bush saying. Youre mak-ing my men nervous, the president jok-ingly said, and that makes me nervous.Well get through this OK.Moulton recalls the light spirit ofSeptember 10. There was lightheartedconversations, easy communication andstories going back and forth. It was verycomfortable.The next morning, Bush went for ajog around a golf course at the LongboatKey Club. Agents in golf carts followed ashe ran with a Bloomberg News reporter.Four and a half miles in 42 minutes.The memory of lightheartedness,and the buzz of anticipation and excite-ment, is in stark contrast to the imagesmost people saw of the president inSarasota the morning of the attacks andaboard Air Force One later in the day.Fall 2021 Suncoast Review - 13'