One of the weird things about September 11th was how vapid and pointless the previous months seemed.
This was Time Magazine's Summer of the Shark, where a series of shark attacks was all the news as little else was happening. Corey Widmer a linemen for the Minnesota Vikings dropped dead in training camp.
The big political story was Congressman Gary Condit and his affair with the missing intern Chandra Levy. Bush had recently taken a trip to Mexico for a conference with el Presidente Vicente Fox. Domestically he was trying to sort out the whole fetal stem cell debate. The President's big crisis of the year was the mid air collision of an American aircraft with Chinese fighter jet. The last series of polls before 9/11 showed Bush with approval ratings of 57, 52 and 55.
Like I said, vapid and pointless.
We knew it then too.
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