Condoleezza Rice on Bush’s Response to 9/11: From President to Commander in Chief

(2/2) Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State and current Director of the Hoover Institution, reflects on the immediate aftermath of 9/11, recalling how President George W. Bush quickly became a wartime leader. With no Department of Homeland Security and limited strategies for dealing with attacks on the US, the Bush Doctrine emerged as a decisive plan to take the fight to the terrorists.