Watch: President Obama Lays A Wreath At Ground Zero

In a marked departure from all of the wild celebrating and political bickering that followed the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama’s visit to New York today was a somber and reverent affair. He went to both a fire station and police station with Rudy Giuliani, New York’s mayor at the time of 9/11, and visited Ground Zero with Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo of New Jersey and New York respectively, New York’s current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. While there, the President laid a wreath where the Towers fell and held a moment of silence.

While at Ground Zero, President Obama made no comments. However, he spoke with policemen and firemen during his visits. Time describes the visit here:

“‘We did what we said we were going to do,’ the President said at the First Precinct Police Station. ‘What we did on Sunday is directly connected to what you do every day.’

‘When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say,’ the President said earlier to the firefighters. ‘You’re always going to have a President and an administration whose got your back.'”

Below, watch CNN’s video of the President at Ground Zero:

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