Whenever the president is interrupted at an event with a whisper or note from an aide, something significant and possibly historic is afoot.

Perhaps the most memorable example in recent times is when White House chief of staff Andy Card approached President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, while he was reading to students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida , to inform him that the nation was under attack.

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