When 9/11 hit, aides wanted George W. Bush to address the nation from a bunker in Nebraska. He refused, fearing it would give terrorists a “psychological victory.” The former president looks back on the attacks 25 years later. ↧ George W. Bush remembers becoming a ‘wartime president’ on 9/11 The former president will appear at a solemn remembrance in Manhattan on Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.