Modern day heroine Antoinette Tuff (pictured), the fearless woman who calmed an armed 20-year-old gunman inside the main office of her Atlanta-area elementary school, received a call from President Barack Pres. Obama on Thursday evening thanking her for her courage.

Pres. Obama referred to Tuff as courageous and told her how she probably saved a lot of lives as a result of her heroic efforts. “Here is somebody who is not just courage, not just cool under pressure, but also had enough heart that somehow she could convince somebody that was really troubled that she cared about him,” Pres. Obama told CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “I think we might have to have her maybe make a visit to the White House,” Pres. Obama added.

He said that he listened to Tuff’s 911 call and read about how brave she acted when faced with such a perilous situation. “She was pretty cool, too,” Pres. Obama said of his telephone conversation with Tuff. “She was happy about it.”

Tuff said the call was “awesome.”

A school bookkeeper at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Tuff prevented Michael Brandon, who has a history of mental illness, from unloading nearly 500 rounds of ammunition via his AK-47 style rifle within the facility that houses some 870 students from kindergarten through fifth grade.