you're also forgetting the Dufus in charge in 2001
George Bush, who promised to be the "education president", never made the mistake during his adminstration of adressing children on television... Oh, wait... except for those seven minutes...
Bush's Seven Minutes of Silence
"Minutes of Silence That Should Live in Infamy: As Americans Leapt to Their Deaths from the Twin Towers, George W. Bush sat cluelessly in a Florida classroom, endangering the lives of the children around him, until his handlers could figure out what to do with him."