Lest we forget, the post-Katrina Bush was previewed in the days after 9/11:
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Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's adviser, said in an interview this morning that Mr. Bush had twice on Tuesday -- in the morning and in the early afternoon -- argued strenuously that he should return immediately to the capital. Mr. Rove reported that the Secret Service insisted that the situation here was ''too dangerous, too unstable'' for the president to come to Washington.
''We are talking about specific and credible intelligence,'' Mr. Rove said, ''not vague suspicions.''
But neither Mr. Rove nor other officials explained why this information was not made public on Tuesday. Partly because it was not, Mr. Bush was criticized for spending the day traveling a zigzag route from Sarasota, Fla.; to Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, La.; then to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha; then back to Washington. He did not land at the White House until 7 p.m., almost exactly 10 hours after he learned of the first attack.
In addition, much remained unclear about the sequence of events. Some officials suggested that airplanes other than the four known to have been hijacked had in some unspecified way jeopardized the safety of President Bush.
On television, in newspapers and in animated discussions in offices across the country, Mr. Bush's conduct was compared unfavorably with that of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, who went to the scene of the attacks in Lower Manhattan; to John F. Kennedy, who stayed in Washington throughout the Cuban missile crisis of 1963, when many feared that nuclear war was imminent, and to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who remained at the Pentagon after it was hit and for a time helped in the evacuation of the dead and wounded.
The president's conduct, said an article this morning in the staunchly conservative Boston Herald, ''did not inspire confidence.''