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The US Capitol Building was one of the targets considered for the September 11 attacks IOTL. Coincidentally, Laura Bush was scheduled to address the Senate Education Committee (chaired by Edward Kennedy) at 9:15 AM that day.

Suppose a couple of flight schedules get shuffled around ITTL, and that the briefing, originally supposed to be held in the Russell Senate Office Building, is instead held in the Capitol Building itself. The first plane to reach its target is one of those directed to Washington and strikes the Capitol, killing, among others, the First Lady (Edward Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, among others, were also supposed to be at that briefing--suppose they're killed too).

While the political consequences of Kennedy and Clinton dying are probably more significant in the long-term, in the short-term, President Bush's reaction to his wife's death will be the larger change from OTL. What happens if both the current and former First Lady are killed on September 11 (assuming that the strikes on the World Trade Center themselves follow a few minutes later more-or-less as IOTL)?
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