Bush was busy on 9/11, he was at Emma T. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. He was at the school to promote his "education program". Bush did however know that Flight 11 hit the North Tower. While waiting to enter the school at 9:02 am, the TV in the classroom was on showing an airplane hit a tower. The footage of the North Tower impact wasn't played on TV until later.
People were against Bush's actions on 9/11. After 15 minutes of knowing that the US was under attack, Bush sat down in a second-grade classroom for a 20 minute photo-op. Bush's actions were the subject of lively debates, mostly on the internet. "Details reported that day and in the week after the attacks—both the media reports and accounts given by Bush himself—have changed radically over the past 18 months."
Bush awoke a little before 6:00 am on September 11, pulled on shorts and an old T-shirt and laced up his running shoes. At 6:30 am, Bush, a reporter friend, and his Secret Service crew took a four-mile jog in the half-light of dawn around a nearby golf course.
At about the same time Bush was getting ready for his jog, a van carrying several Middle Eastern men pulled up to the Colony’s guard station. The men said they were a television news crew with a scheduled “poolside” interview with the president. They asked for a certain Secret Service agent by name. The message was relayed to a Secret Service agent inside the resort, who hadn’t heard of the agent mentioned or of plans for an interview. He told the men to contact the president’s public relations office in Washington, DC, and had the van turned away.
http://911research.wtc7.net/disinfo/alibis/bush.html
http://www.historycommons.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday
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Good summary but no personal thoughts.