Woodward spent more time than any other journalist with former President George W. Bush , interviewing him six times for close to 11 hours total . Woodward 's four books , '' Bush at War '' ( 2002 ) , '' Plan of Attack '' ( 2004 ) , '' State of Denial '' ( 2006 ) , and '' The War Within : A Secret White House History ( 2006 – 2008 ) '' ( 2008 ) are detailed accounts of the Bush presidency , including the response to the September 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq . In a series of articles published in January 2002 , he and Dan Balz described the events at Camp David in the aftermath of September 11 and discussed the Worldwide Attack Matrix
September 11 attacks
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