Biography

Andrew Card was born on May 10, 1947 in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA.

Former White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush [2000-2006].

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation [1992-1993].

Former White House Chief of Staff was, famously, the man who whispered the news of the full enormity of the 9/11 attacks to President George W. Bush as he was seated during an appearance at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida.

[on informing President George W. Bush that on 9/11]: While the president was reading to the students, the Navy captain who was the acting national security advisor on the trip came up to me and said, 'Oh my God, another plane hit the other tower.' I made a conscious decision to pass on two facts and make one editorial comment and to do nothing to invite a conversation because I assumed [Bush] was sitting under a boom microphone. I whispered into his ear, 'A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack.' He did not turn around and talk to me, which I was pleased. I could tell he was thinking and thinking, and then I went back to the door, looked at him again, he was still - his head was kind of bobbing up and down.

[on realizing 9/11 was a terrorist attack from the first plane to the second plane crashing]: I still thought, I guess, that it could have been an accident, a mechanical failure or something. And then -it seems like a nanosecond later -a staffer came to me and said, 'Oh my gosh' -he used another word -and said another plane hit the other tower at the World Trade Center. And I knew that it was not an accident, and it couldn't have been a coincidence.