Top U.S. officials visit destroyed Trade Center

Saturday, September 22, 2001

NEW YORK -- Attorney General John Ashcroft brought the Bush administration's defiant optimism to New York on Friday, vowing to rebuild after getting his first look at the ruins of the World Trade Center.

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