Susan Dryden Whitson was press secretary to First Lady Laura Bush , the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush . During the attacks of September 11th , she was flying from Washington to Milwaukee with Attorney General John Ashcroft . Prior to working at the White House , she was the Deputy Communications Director of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and the spokesperson for the President and Mrs. Bush 's twin daughters , Barbara and Jenna Bush . Susan Whitson also worked for the FBI , the US Department of Justice and for Rep. Bob Riley ( R-AL ) , the former governor of Alabama , and Rep. Bill McCollum ( R-FL ) on Capitol Hill . She was a high school English teacher at Hoover High School in Birmingham , Alabama . She attended Auburn University
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Susan Whitson