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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The President had declared Friday, September 14, 2001, a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance. He and the First Lady joined former Presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter, and Ford and their wives, as well as members of Congress, the U.S. Senate, the Cabinet, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Washington National Cathedral to honor the memory of the 9/11 victims and the families who had lost so much.
Security was formidable that morning and only those with tickets were allowed inside. I arrived at 10:45 a.m. with a green ticket distributed to family members of the Cathedral Boy and Girl Choristers. My wonderful next-door neighbor Peter Gilchrist, who sang in the choir, had given me one of his tickets, which placed me a few feet away from the pews of the Presidents. Next to me was the Reverend Patricia Johnson, whose son was also a chorister. We sat down together as strangers and departed as friends. She is tall, black, and elegant; I am the opposite, but we had no barriers stronger than our need to feel human and hopeful again after three days of shock and trauma. There were no Republicans or Democrats in the Cathedral that day, only grieving Americans in need of succor.
As the President walked across the marble floor of the main altar to ascend the lectern, Patricia and I instinctively grasped hands, like anxious mothers, hoping for a flawless performance from a child who has frequent pratfalls. The President rose to the occasion and spoke well as he offered the families of 9/11 the nation’s sympathy, but he startled many of the three thousand people assembled when he began to mix patriotism with religion and declared that ridding the world of evil was the country’s “responsibility to history.” As he returned to his seat, he passed the Rev. Billy Graham and affectionately patted the elderly man’s shoulder. When Bush sat down, his father, George Herbert Walker Bush, reached over and squeezed his hand as if to say, “You did well.”
I tried to remember the President’s words about a “responsibility to history” as I researched this book on his family, and I sought the assistance of many people to fulfill that responsibility. I’m indebted to all, especially the librarians, curators, and archivists who helped me in compiling the family’s ancestral background and provided access to the unpublished letters, records, documents, and diaries I needed to tell the family’s story. I’m extraordinarily grateful for the scholarly research of Ellen Walker, Ruth Quattlebaum, Tana Sherman, Timothy Sprattler, and Lynda V. Diamondis: Phillips Aca
demy, Andover, Massachusetts; Tom Conroy: Yale Public Affairs; William R. Massa Jr. and Diane Kaplan: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University; Angelyn Singer and Christine Baird: Alumni Records, Yale University; Jessica He, research assistant for Professor Douglas Rae, Yale School of Management; Fred Romanski, Barry L. Zerby, and Pat Anderson: National Archives and Records in College Park, Maryland; Lisa Gezelter, archivist: National Archive in Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel); Research staff: Ohio Historical Society; Barbara Reed: FACT Line, Columbus Public Schools, Ohio; Doug McCabe: Ohio University Library, Athens, Ohio; Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian, and Betty K. Koed: U.S. Senate; Suzanne Callison Dicks: U.S. Capitol Historical Society; American Institute for Economic Research; Ruth Ann Rugg: Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, Texas; Barbie Selby and Gary Treadway: University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia; Anthony Sgro: Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Virginia; Kathryn Stallard and John G. Tower, archivists: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas; Gregory H. Stoner and Toni M. Carter: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia; Jason D. Stratman: Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; Towana D. Spivey, director: Fort Sill National Historical Landmark, Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Aulene Gibson: Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society; Richard Spiers, superintendent: Hope Cemetery, Kennebunkport, Maine; Barbara Barwise: Kennebunkport Historical Society; Betty Austin, archivist: Fulbright Papers, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Monica Blank and Amy Fitch, archivists: Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York; Caroline Bradley: Westerly Public Library, Westerly, Rhode Island; Virginia Buchanan: Smith County Historical Society, Tyler, Texas; Richard M. Bulatoff: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University; Steve Charter: Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; Deneen Carter: Franklin County Probate Court, Columbus, Ohio; Mary M. Huth and Sarah DeSanctis: Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, New York; John G. Doll: Gilbert Y. Taverner Archives, St. George’s School, Newport, Rhode Island; Jules J. Duga: Columbus Jewish Historical Society, Ohio; Megan Hahn Fraser: New-York Historical Society, New York, New York; The Honorable George Mitchell and Ian Graham: Special Collections, Bowdoin University, Brunswick, Maine; Sarah Hartwell: Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire; Alexander Sanger, Esther Katz, and Cathy Moran Hajo: Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University, New York, New York; Lianne Hartman: Bently Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cory Hatch and Jared Jackson: Arizona Historical Foundation, Tempe, Arizona; John Neal Hoover, librarian: St. Louis Mercantile Library; Noel C. Hollabeck: St. Louis Public Library; Karen Mason, curator: Iowa Women’s Archive, University of Iowa; Kirsten Jensen, archivist: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut; Kristine Krueger: National Film Information Service, Center for Motion Picture Study, Beverly Hills, California; Bonnie Linck: Connecticut State Library; Barbara Lowden, Assistant Registrar: Vital Statistics, Greenwich, Connecticut; Ryan Hendrickson: Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Massachusetts; Kristen J. Nyitray: special collections, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Kathy Ogden: Greenwich Oral History Project, Connecticut; Michael V. Lynch, registrar: vital statistics, New Haven, Connecticut; Mary K. Moore: Bohemian Grove Action Network, Occidental, California; Ken Marder: Silas Bronson Library, Waterbury, Connecticut; Keith Stretcher, City Attorney: City of Midland, Texas; Greg Platts: Alfalfa Club, Washington, D.C.; Marta Ross Dunetz, archivist: St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
