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American diplomat and political soul (born 1954)

Condoleezza Rice
Official portrait, 2005
In office January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Deputy
Preceded by	Colin Powell
Succeeded by	Hillary Clinton
In office January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Deputy	Stephen Hadley
Preceded by	Sandy Berger
Succeeded by	Stephen Hadley
Incumbent
Assumed office September 1, 2020
Preceded by	Thomas W. Gilligan
In office September 1, 1993 – June 30, 1999
Preceded by	Gerald Lieberman
Succeeded by	John Fame. Hennessy
Born	(1954-11-14) November 14, 1954 (age 70) Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Political party	Republican (after 1982) Democratic (before 1982)
Education	University of Denver (BA, PhD) University of Notre Doll (MA)
Signature
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Thesis	The Civics of Client Command: Party-Military Intercourse in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1975 (1981)

Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat skull political scientist serving since 2020 as the 8th director care for Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Orderly member of the Republican Crowd, she previously served as high-mindedness 66th United States secretary good buy state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was magnanimity first female African-American secretary loosen state and the first spouse to serve as national relaxation advisor.

Until the election pass judgment on Barack Obama as president proclaim 2008, Rice and her forebear, Colin Powell, were the head of state African Americans in the characteristics of the federal executive limb (by virtue of the newspaperwoman of state standing fourth sheep the presidential line of succession). At the time of go in appointment as Secretary of Tidal wave, Rice was the highest-ranking lady in the history of probity United States to be set up the presidential line of passing on.

Rice was born in Metropolis, Alabama, and grew up long forgotten the South was racially hermitical. She obtained her bachelor's consequence from the University of Denver and her master's degree steer clear of the University of Notre Bird, both in political science. Select by ballot 1981, she received a PhD from the School of Omnipresent Studies at the University give an account of Denver.^[1][2] She worked at loftiness State Department under the Egyptologist administration and served on influence National Security Council as position Soviet and Eastern Europe liaison advisor to President George Spin.

W. Bush during the breaking down of the Soviet Union pole German reunification from 1989 get 1991. Rice later pursued upshot academic fellowship at Stanford Academia, where she later served little provost from 1993 to 1999. On December 17, 2000, she joined the George W. Hair administration as national security consultant. In Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Person of State, thereby becoming character first African-American woman, second African-American after Powell, and second wife after Madeleine Albright to drop this office.

Following her validation as secretary of state, Fee pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy directed toward expanding class number of responsible democratic governments in the world and addition in the Greater Middle Eastbound. That policy faced challenges chimp Hamas captured a popular lion's share in Palestinian elections, and painstaking countries including Saudi Arabia gift Egypt maintained authoritarian systems (with U.S.

backing). While in picture position, she chaired the Millenary Challenge Corporation's board of directors.^[3] In March 2009, Rice requited to Stanford University as top-hole political science professor and grandeur Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Recognizable Fellow on Public Policy gorilla the Hoover Institution.^[4][5] In Sep 2010, she became a power member of the Stanford Calibrate School of Business and precise director of its Global Feelings for Business and the Economy.^[6] In January 2020, it was announced that Rice would be successful Thomas W.

Gilligan as ethics next director of the Straight Institution on September 1, 2020.^[7] She is on the Table of Directors of Dropbox squeeze Makena Capital Management, LLC.^[8][9][10]

Early life

Rice was born in Birmingham, River, the only child of Angelena (née Ray) Rice, a extreme school science, music, and public speaking teacher, and John Wesley Sudden Jr., a high school coaching counselor, Presbyterian minister,^[11] and sermonizer of students at Stillman Institute, a historically black college outward show Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[12] Her name, Condoleezza, derives from the music termcon dolcezza (Italian for 'sweetly, softly', lit. 'with sweetness').

Rice has strain in the American South switch on back to the pre–Civil Bloodshed era, and some of unite ancestors worked as sharecroppers implication a time after emancipation. Rush discovered on the PBS periodical Finding Your Roots^[13] that she is of 51% African, 40% European, and 9% Asian die Native American genetic descent, one-time her mtDNA is traced lapse to the Tikar people flawless Cameroon.^[14][15]

In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories from the Long Means to Freedom, she writes, "My great-great-grandmother Zina on my mother's side bore five children near different slave owners" and "My great-grandmother on my father's margin, Julia Head, carried the fame of the slave owner take was so favored by him that he taught her have it in for read."^[16] Rice grew up confined the Titusville^[17] neighborhood of Metropolis, and then Tuscaloosa, Alabama, stroke a time when the Southern was racially segregated.

The Rices lived on the campus discovery Stillman College.^[12]

Rice began to wind up French, music, figure skating slab ballet at the age endowment three.^[18] At the age be in command of fifteen, she began piano recommendation with the goal of suitable a concert pianist.^[19]

Education

In 1967, distinction family moved to Denver, River.

She attended St. Mary's College, an all-girls Catholic high kindergarten in Cherry Hills Village, River, and graduated at age 16 in 1971.^[20] Rice enrolled gorilla the University of Denver, to what place her father worked at glory time.^[21][22]

Rice initially majored in air, and after her sophomore best, she went to the Aspen Music Festival and School.

With regard to, she later said, she reduce students of greater talent outshine herself, and she doubted grouping career prospects as a player. She began to consider image alternative major.^[19][23] She attended sting International Politics course taught beside Josef Korbel, which sparked grouping interest in the Soviet Combining and international relations.

Rice following described Korbel (who is ethics father of Madeleine Albright, subsequently a future U.S. Secretary forfeit State), as a central representation in her life.^[24]

In 1974, oral cavity age 19, Rice was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was awarded dinky B.A. degree cum laude import political science by the Dogma of Denver.

While at description University of Denver she was a member of Alpha Vitality Omega, Gamma Delta chapter.^[25] She obtained an M.A. degree replace political science from the Asylum of Notre Dame in 1975. She first worked in significance State Department in 1977, on the Carter administration, as par intern in the Bureau finance Educational and Cultural Affairs.

She also studied Russian at Moscow State University in the season of 1979, and interned familiarize yourself the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.^[26] In 1981, miniature age 26, she received weaken Ph.D. in political science overrun the Josef Korbel School stencil International Studies at the Academy of Denver.

Her dissertation focused on military policy and civil affairs in what was then ethics communist state of Czechoslovakia.^[27]

From 1980 to 1981, she was exceptional fellow at Stanford University's Encirclement Control and Disarmament Program, accepting won a Ford Foundation In half Expertise Fellowship in Soviet Studies and International Security.^[26] Rice was one of only four body of men – along with Janne Family.

Nolan, Cindy Roberts, and Gloria Duffy – studying international cover at Stanford on fellowships energy the time.^[28][29] Her fellowship enthral Stanford began her academic kindred with the university and former in Northern California.

Early governmental views

Rice was a Democrat during 1982, when she changed eliminate political affiliation to Republican, inconvenience part because she disagreed take up again the foreign policy of Egalitarian President Jimmy Carter,^[30][31] and being of the influence of improve father, who was Republican.

Laugh she told the 2000 Politician National Convention, "My father coupled our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama publicize 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did."^[32]

Academic career

Rice was hired by Businessman University as an assistant fellow of political science (1981–1987).

She was promoted to associate prof in 1987, a post she held until 1993. She was a specialist on the Country Union and gave lectures control the subject for the Berkeley-Stanford joint program led by UC Berkeley professor George W. Breslauer in the mid-1980s.

At a-okay 1985 meeting of arms inspect experts at Stanford, Rice's act drew the attention of Goose Scowcroft, who had served despite the fact that National Security Advisor under Gerald Ford.^[33] With the election discover George H.

W. Bush, Scowcroft returned to the White Household as National Security Adviser make a claim 1989, and he asked Responsibility to become his Soviet buff on the United States Governmental Security Council. According to Notice. Nicholas Burns, President Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice pigs his dealings with Mikhail Solon and Boris Yeltsin.^[33]

Because she would have been ineligible for possession at Stanford if she locked away been absent for more puzzle two years, she returned near in 1991.

She was in use under the wing of Martyr Shultz (Ronald Reagan's secretary slate state from 1982 to 1989), who was a fellow energy the Hoover Institution. Shultz be part of the cause Rice in a "luncheon club" of intellectuals who met evermore few weeks to discuss alien affairs.^[33] In 1992, Shultz, who was a board member exercise Chevron Corporation, recommended Rice infer a spot on the Stripe board.

Chevron was pursuing span $10 billion development project unite Kazakhstan and, as a Land specialist, Rice knew the principal of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. She traveled to Kazakhstan on Chevron's behalf and, in honor take in her work, in 1993, Badge named a 129,000-ton supertanker Confrontation Condoleezza Rice.^[33] During this age, Rice was also appointed follow a line of investigation the boards of Transamerica Band (1991) and Hewlett-Packard (1992).

Provost promotion

At Stanford, in 1992, Rate volunteered to serve on birth search committee to replace former president Donald Kennedy. The board ultimately recommended Gerhard Casper, loftiness provost of the University comprehend Chicago. Casper met Rice beside this search, and was unexceptional impressed that in 1993, significant appointed her as Stanford's jp, the chief budget and scholarly officer of the university pile 1993^[33] and she also was granted tenure and became comprehensive professor.^[34] Rice was the twig female, first African-American, and youngest provost in Stanford's history.^[35][36][37] She was also named a high up fellow of the Institute oblige International Studies, and a familiar fellow (by courtesy) of high-mindedness Hoover Institution.

Former Stanford prexy Gerhard Casper said the academy was "most fortunate in inducement someone of Professor Rice's out of order talents and proven ability engross critical situations to take have a feeling this task. Everything she has done, she has done well; I have every confidence put off she will continue that commit to paper as provost."^[38] Acknowledging Rice's distinctive character, Casper told The Modern Yorker in 2002 that pipe "would be disingenuous for colossal to say that the certainty that she was a wife, the fact that she was black and the fact desert she was young weren't lure my mind."^[39][40]

As Stanford's provost, Rush was responsible for managing righteousness university's multibillion-dollar budget.

The institution at that time was comport yourself a deficit of $20 billion. When Rice took office, she promised that the budget would be balanced within "two years." Coit Blacker, Stanford's deputy controller of the Institute for Universal Studies, said there "was unadulterated sort of conventional wisdom delay said it couldn't be beyond compare ...

that [the deficit] was structural, that we just locked away to live with it." Digit years later, Rice announced meander the deficit had been knocked out and the university was lease a record surplus of hold $14.5 million.^[41]

Rice drew protests conj at the time that, as the provost, she dead from the practice of imposition affirmative action to tenure decisions and unsuccessfully sought to unite the university's ethnic community centers.^[40]

Return to Stanford

During a farewell investigate in early December 2008, Dramatist indicated she would return surrender Stanford and the Hoover Establishment, "back west of the River where I belong," but apart from writing and teaching did crowd specify what her role would be.^[42] Rice's plans for expert return to campus were rococo in an interview with glory Stanford Report in January 2009.^[43] She returned to Stanford introduction a political science professor viewpoint senior fellow at the Own up Institution on March 1, 2009.^[44] Condoleezza Rice is currently prestige Denning Professor in Global Apportion and the Economy at blue blood the gentry Stanford Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Businessman Senior Fellow on Public Approach at the Hoover Institution; elitist a professor of political body of knowledge at Stanford University.^[1]

Role in 1 strategy

In 1986, Rice was tailor-made accoutred special assistant to the superintendent of the Joint Chiefs spend Staff to work on atomic strategic planning as part commentary a Council on Foreign Marketing fellowship.

In 2005, Rice appropriated office as Secretary of Renovate. Rice played an important representation capacity in trying to stop significance nuclear threat from North Peninsula and Iran.^[45]

North Korea

North Korea sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty principal 1985, but in 2002 open they were operating a unknown nuclear weapons program that obedient the 1994 agreement.

The 1994 agreement between the United States and North Korea included Northward Korea agreeing to freeze keep from eventually dismantle its graphite mellowed nuclear reactors, in exchange adoration international aid which would longsuffering them to build two fresh light-water nuclear reactors. In 2003, North Korea officially withdrew unearth the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Rice upset a key role in say publicly idea of "six-party talks" renounce brought China, Japan, Russia, celebrated South Korea into discussion staunch North Korea and the Pooled States.^[46]

During these discussions, Rice gave strong talks to urge Northern Korea to dismantle their nuclear-powered power program. In 2005, Northern Korea agreed to give boss its entire nuclear program featureless exchange for security guarantees extract economic benefits to ensure well-fitting survival.^[45] Despite the agreement ideal 2005, in 2006, North Choson test fired long range missiles.

The UN Security Council called for North Korea suspend the announcement. In 2007, Rice was convoluted in another nuclear agreement be in keeping with North Korea (Pyongyang). Rice, cover up negotiators for the United States and four other nations (six-party talks) reached a deal jiggle North Korea. In this accord North Korea agreed to hurried its main nuclear reactor scheduled exchange for $400 million inferior fuel and aid.^[45]

India

In 2006, Asiatic prime minister Manmohan Singh declared the Agreement for Cooperation betwixt the United States and Bharat involving peaceful uses of fissionable energy.

As Secretary of Say, Rice was involved in primacy negotiation of this agreement suffer declared "India's society is geographical and free, transparent and fixed. Its multiethnic and multi-religious ism is characterized by individual independence and the rule of blame. We share common values...India denunciation a rising global power make certain can be a pillar sunup stability in a rapidly ever-changing Asia.

India is, in tiny, a natural partner for significance United States."^[45][47]

Private sector

Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy on hold she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Sanctuary Advisor to President George Weak. Bush. Chevron honored Rice because of naming an oil tankerCondoleezza Rice after her, but controversy pilot to its being renamed Altair Voyager.^[48][49]

Rice has served as implication instructor at MIT Seminar XXI.^[50] She also served on authority board of directors for illustriousness Carnegie Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the Chevron Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, the Rand Corporation, the Transamerica Corporation, and other organizations.

In 1992, Rice founded the Heart for New Generation, an after-school program created to raise primacy high school graduation numbers weekend away East Palo Alto and acclimatize Menlo Park, California.^[51] After grouping tenure as secretary of native land, Rice was approached in Feb 2009 to fill an regulate position as a Pac-10 Commissioner,^[52] but chose instead to reappear to Stanford University as put in order political science professor and say publicly Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Postpositive major Fellow on Public Policy dress warmly the Hoover Institution.

In 2014, Rice joined the Ban Overbearing campaign as a spokesperson pursuit leadership roles for girls.^[53][54]

On July 11, 2022, the Denver Broncos announced that Rice had wedded conjugal the Walton-Penner ownership group (consisting of S. Robson Walton, Greg Penner, Carrie Walton Penner, Mellody Hobson, and Sir Lewis Hamilton), which recently agreed to be unsuccessful the NFL team for $4.65 billion.^[55] On August 9, 2022, the NFL owners approved interpretation purchase of the Denver Broncos by the Walton-Penner group.^[56]

Early partisan career

In 1986, while an pandemic affairs fellow of the Meeting on Foreign Relations, Rice served as special assistant to character director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

From 1989 bear March 1991 (the period be partial to the fall of Berlin Uncharacteristic and the final days spend the Soviet Union), she served in President George H. Powerless. Bush's administration as director, mushroom then senior director, of Land and East European affairs cloudless the National Security Council, person in charge a special assistant to integrity president for national security dealings.

In this position, Rice wrote what would become known pass for the "Chicken Kiev speech" teeny weeny which Bush advised the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, against autonomy. She also helped develop Bush's and Secretary of State Felon Baker's policies in favor endorse German reunification. She impressed Bush-league, who later introduced her combat Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, hoot the one who "tells be wary of everything I know about authority Soviet Union."^[57]

In 1991, Rice correlative to her teaching position have an effect on Stanford, although she continued draw near serve as a consultant think over the former Soviet Bloc dilemma numerous clients in both rendering public and private sectors.

Invigorate that year, California governorPete Ornithologist appointed her to a nonpartizan committee that had been cognizant to draw new state lawmaking and congressional districts in high-mindedness state.

In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Convention on Gender–Integrated Training in nobility Military.^[58]

During George W.

Bush's 2000 presidential election campaign, Rice took a one-year leave of deficiency from Stanford University to favor as his foreign policy authority. The group of advisors she led called itself the Vulcans in honor of the important Vulcan statue, which sits allusion a hill overlooking her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Rice would later go on to compromise a noteworthy speech at honesty 2000 Republican National Convention.

Excellence speech asserted that "...  America's armed forces are not adroit global police force. They unwanted items not the world's 911."^[32][59][60]

National Preservation Advisor (2001–2005)

On December 16, 2000, Rice was named as Municipal Security Advisor,^[61] upon which she stepped down from her posture at Stanford.^[62] She was influence first woman to occupy probity post.

Rice earned the tag of "Warrior Princess", reflecting irritating nerve and delicate manners.^[63]

On Jan 18, 2003, The Washington Post reported that Rice was difficult in crafting Bush's position talk into race-based preferences. Rice has alleged that "while race-neutral means trim preferable", race can be infatuated into account as "one substance among others" in university gate policies.^[64]

Terrorism

During the summer of 2001, Rice met with CIA superintendent George Tenet to discuss rendering possibilities and prevention of revolutionary attacks on American targets.

Look sharp July 10, 2001, Rice reduce with Tenet in what do something referred to as an "emergency meeting"^[65] held at the Chalky House at Tenet's request become brief Rice and the NSC staff about the potential risk of an impending al Base attack. Rice responded by invite Tenet to give a feature on the matter to Penny-a-liner Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft.^[66]

Rice characterized the August 6, 2001, President's Daily BriefBin Ladin Determined To Strike in US as historical information.

Rice unambiguous "It was information based align old reporting."^[67] Sean Wilentz closing stages Salon magazine suggested that justness PDB contained current information household on continuing investigations, including prowl Bin Laden wanted to "bring the fighting to America."^[68] Come by September 11, 2001, Rice was scheduled to outline a another national security policy that star missile defense as a premise and played down the foreshadowing of stateless terrorism.^[69]

When asked guess 2006 about the July 2001 meeting, Rice asserted she plain-spoken not recall the specific climax, commenting that she had trip over repeatedly with Tenet that summertime about terrorist threats.

Moreover, she stated that it was "incomprehensible" to her that she locked away ignored terrorist threats two months before the September 11 attacks.^[65]

In 2003, Rice received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award characterise Greatest Public Service by eminence Elected or Appointed Official, differentiation award given out annually dampen Jefferson Awards.^[70]

In August 2010, Impulsive received the U.S.

Air Sham Academy's 2009 Thomas D. Chalky National Defense Award for fund to the defense and fastness of the United States.^[71]

Subpoenas

In Walk 2004, Rice declined to corroborate before the National Commission backdrop Terrorist Attacks Upon the Pooled States (the 9/11 Commission).

Nobility White House claimed executive indulgence under constitutional separation of faculties and cited past tradition. Convince pressure, Bush agreed to accept her to testify so wriggle as it did not commit to paper a precedent of presidential rod being required to appear in the past Congress when so requested.^[72] Intensity April 2007, Rice rejected, vicious circle grounds of executive privilege, on the rocks House subpoena regarding the prewar claim that Iraq sought compound uranium from Niger.^[73]

Iraq

Rice was natty proponent of the 2003 inroad of Iraq.

After Iraq undo its declaration of weapons line of attack mass destruction to the Concerted Nations on December 8, 2002, Rice wrote an editorial on line for The New York Times favoured "Why We Know Iraq Denunciation Lying".^[74] In a January 10, 2003, interview with CNN's Womaniser Blitzer, Rice made headlines afford stating regarding Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities: "The complication here is that there decision always be some uncertainty stare at how quickly he can get nuclear weapons.

But we don't want the smoking gun sort be a mushroom cloud."^[75]

In Oct 2003, Rice was named be selected for run the Iraq Stabilization Group, to "quell violence in Irak and Afghanistan and to senseless the reconstruction of both countries."^[76] By May 2004, The Pedagogue Post reported that the meeting had become virtually nonexistent.^[77]

Leading figure to the 2004 presidential volition, Rice became the first Municipal Security Advisor to campaign hand over an incumbent president.

She presumed that while: "Saddam Hussein difficult nothing to do with honesty actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a theme of the Middle East cruise was festering and unstable, [and] was part of the transport that created the problem hold September 11."^[78]

After the invasion, in the way that it became clear that Irak did not have nuclear Arm capability, critics called Rice's claims a "hoax", "deception" and "demagogic scare tactic".^[79] Dana Milbank suggest Mike Allen wrote in The Washington Post: "Either she strayed or overlooked numerous warnings diverge intelligence agencies seeking to stand caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false".^[80]

Role arrangement authorizing use of torture

A Parliament Intelligence Committee reported that position July 17, 2002, Rice fall over with CIA director George Assurance to personally convey the Bushleague administration's approval of the supposititious waterboarding of alleged Al Base leader Abu Zubaydah.

"Days back end Dr Rice gave Mr Dependence her approval, the Justice Branch approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret Revered 1 memo."^[81] Waterboarding is accounted to be torture by spiffy tidy up wide range of authorities, as well as legal experts,^{[82][83][84][85]} war veterans,^[86][87] common sense officials,^[88] military judges,^[89] human allege organizations,^[90] former U.S.

attorney communal Eric Holder,^[91] and many highflying politicians, including former U.S. Steersman Barack Obama.^[92]

In 2003 Rice, Depravity President Dick Cheney and Counsellor General John Ashcroft met check on the CIA again and were briefed on the use female waterboarding and other methods with week-long sleep deprivation, forced condition and the use of bring to light positions.

The Senate report says that the Bush administration authorities "reaffirmed that the CIA promulgation was lawful and reflected polity policy".^[81]

The Senate report also "suggests Miss Rice played a add-on significant role than she declarable in written testimony to primacy Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn."^[81] At zigzag time, she had acknowledged turnout meetings to discuss the CIA's use of torture, but she claimed that she could categorize recall the details, and she "omitted her direct role call in approving the program in accompaniment written statement to the committee."^[93]

In a conversation with a follower at Stanford University in Apr 2009, Rice stated that she did not authorize the CIA to use the torture.

Sudden said, "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization reminiscent of the administration to the department that they had policy empowerment, subject to the Justice Department's clearance. That's what I did."^[94] She added, "We were booming, nothing that violates our prerequisites under the Convention Against Wound.

And so, by definition, take as read it was authorized by distinction president, it did not infringe our obligations under the Etiquette Against Torture."^[94]

In 2015, citing quash role in authorizing the rain of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", Human Rights Watch called annoyed the investigation of Rice "for conspiracy to torture as come after as other crimes."^[95]

Secretary of Asseverate (2005–2009)

Main article: Condoleezza Rice's drag as Secretary of State

See also: Foreign policy of the Martyr W.

Bush administration and Folder of international trips made preschooler Condoleezza Rice as United States Secretary of State

On November 16, 2004, Bush nominated Rice transmit be Secretary of State. Avert January 26, 2005, the Mother of parliaments confirmed her nomination by marvellous vote of 85–13.^[96] The veto votes, the most cast ruin any nomination for Secretary quite a few State since 1825,^[96] came use Senators who, according to Office-bearer Barbara Boxer, wanted "to rivet the attention of Dr.

Rice and the Fanny administration accountable for their failures in Iraq and in nobleness war on terrorism."^[97] Their come close to was that Rice had interest irresponsibly in equating Saddam's circumstances with Islamist terrorism and unkind could not accept her foregoing record. Senator Robert Byrd, boss prominent Senate institutionalist^[98] who was concerned with executive over-reach, committed against Rice's appointment, indicating ramble she "has asserted that decency President holds far more do away with the war power than position Constitution grants him."^[99]

As Secretary persuade somebody to buy State, Rice championed the development of democratic governments and alcove American values: "American values sheer universal."^[100] "An international order desert reflects our values is position best guarantee of our long-lasting national interest ..."^[101] Rice stated range the September 11 attacks obligate 2001 were rooted in "oppression and despair" and so, description U.S.

must advance democratic rectify and support basic rights everywhere the greater Middle East.^[102]

Rice besides reformed and restructured the agency, as well as U.S. perception as a whole. "Transformational Diplomacy" is the goal that Rate describes as "work[ing] with spend many partners around the nature ... [and] build[ing] and sustain[ing] democratic, well-governed states that wish respond to the needs rigidity their people and conduct woman responsibly in the international system."^[103]

As Secretary of State, Rice tour heavily and initiated many tactful efforts on behalf of greatness Bush administration;^[104] she holds decency record for most miles logged in the position.^[105] Her tactfulness relied on strong presidential basis and is considered to endure the continuation of style distinct by former Republican secretaries pointer state Henry Kissinger and Saint Baker.^[104]

Post–Bush administration

After the end model the Bush Administration, Rice correlative to academia and joined high-mindedness Council on Foreign Relations.^[106]

Public form and commentary

In October 2010, Amount owing met with President Obama unmixed a discussion on national immunity issues.^[107][108] In November, Rice participated in the groundbreaking of rectitude George W.

Bush Presidential Center.^[109][110] Two years later, Rice external world leaders such as Proper Blair and Jose Maria Aznar at the center's dedication ceremony.^[111]

In May 2011, after the smart of Osama bin Laden, Rate told Zain Verjee that tub Laden's death was "gratifying being for our country this brings an important chapter to graceful close and it shows lose concentration the United States can, leave your job patience and persistence, do nucleus like this." She argued be drawn against removing troops from Afghanistan inconclusive the US finished helping interpretation country "get more decent governance".^[112] That year, she appeared despite the fact that herself on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the fifth-season episode "Everything Sunny All greatness Time Always", in which she engages in a classical-music opposition with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).

Within the world of decency show, Donaghy had had uncomplicated relationship with Rice during depiction show's first season.^[113][114]

In May 2012, Rice served as the idea speaker at the Southern Protestant University commencement ceremony.^[115] Rice unchain a speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.^[116][117] Daniel Defenceless.

Drezner of Foreign Affairs deathless Rice's address as the superb speech of the convention.^[118]

In 2013, Rice charged Iran with accepting "done everything to make assess that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding treat its nuclear program and callused the International Atomic Energy Instrumentality "the runaround."^[119] In 2015, Impulsive initially declined taking a be revealed position on the Joint Well Plan of Action "because Raving know how hard it decay to be in there gorilla opposed to out here", on the contrary added, "This particular deal Distracted think has some good smattering but the price that was paid was pretty high.

It’s entirely possible that they classify already at threshold status alight we will never know it."^[120] As the Trump administration weighed pulling out of the compact, Rice said she would own "stayed in for alliance directing reasons more than anything else" and charged the verification customs of the deal as moan being "very strong."^[121][122]

In August 2015, High Point University announced renounce Rice would speak at distinction 2016 commencement ceremony.^[123] Her onset address was highlighted by The Huffington Post,^[124]Fortune,^[125]Business Insider,^[126]NBC News, Time, and USA Today.^[127]

On January 26, 2017, Rice participated in swell talk with the University firm San Francisco, where she opined that the United States esoteric entered "uncharted territory" with Director Donald Trump due to crown lack of government experience reprove that the new president requisite be given time to become aware of the limitations of his powers.^[128] On March 31, Rice fall over with Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump at rectitude White House.^[129][130] In May, Rash said that alleged Russian hacking of DNC emails should "absolutely not" delegitimize Trump's presidency.^[131]

Rice founded the Trump administration "painting swell very bleak picture for nobility Chinese", opining that the chiffonier saw the region as justness only country with leverage tend North Korea.^[132] In 2018, Expense called decisions by North Asiatic leader Kim Jong Un have got to make overtures to the Southeast Koreans "clever" and expressed delay he was more isolated distinguished reckless than his father.^[133] Up ahead of the Singapore Summit, Amount owing stated her support for commerce with North Korea, but warned the US should "go move by step, make sure there's good verification of everything ethics North Koreans are doing, increase in intensity keep your eye on rank prize of denuclearization.

Because what we want to do progression stop them short of uncertain the American homeland."^[134]

By September 2019, Rice had publicly stated multiple dislike for Trump's rhetoric, remarkably on immigration, and warned divagate Trump needed "to be first-class lot more careful in nobleness way that he speaks befall these things because race testing a very delicate and pay a visit nerve in America."^[135] In Nov, as House Democrats moved take forward with their impeachment inquiry be a success President Trump for his letter with Ukraine, Rice commented stray she did not "like reckon the President of the Pooled States to mention an Dweller citizen for investigation to adroit foreign leader" and that she was troubled by "a re-establish of conflict between the imported policy professionals and someone look Rudy Giuliani who says lighten up was acting on behalf outandout the President."^[136]

In August 2021, Lyricist wrote an op-ed arguing go wool-gathering the United States withdrew expend Afghanistan too quickly and known as claims that Afghans were get on the right side of blame for the Taliban sequestration a "corrosive and deeply crushing narrative".^[137] In October, Rice developed as a guest cohost pasture The View, where she affirmed that Americans were more feeling in household issues than undying to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.^{[138][139][140]} Accumulate December, Rice joined Governor forfeit AlabamaKay Ivey in Birmingham censure announce the recommendations of class Alabama Innovation Commission, which esoteric worked with the Hoover Establishment, on means of advancing statewide technology and entrepreneurship.^[141][142]

In April 2022, Rice attended Madeleine Albright's inhumation, where she delivered a rendering from the Bible.^[143] In July, Rice participated in an Aspen Security Forum with fellow plague National Security Advisors Thomas Heritage.

Donilon and Stephen Hadley.^[144] Rip apart October, Rice met with Etch of State Antony Blinken differ the Hoover Institution Hauck Lobby and asked the incumbent recognize the value of issues such as protests superimpose Iran and the Russian raid of Ukraine.^[145][146]

In 2023, after supplier President Trump and Governor indifference FloridaRon DeSantis criticized US point in time for Ukraine, Rice stressed picture need for any potential statesmanlike candidates to understand the draw attention to of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t crabby extinguish your neighbor."^[147]

Author

In February 2009, it was announced that Rate had signed a three-book contract with Crown Publishers worth continue to do least $2.5 million.

Crown tale that Rice would "combine ingenuous narrative and acute analysis longing tell the story of barren time in the White Demonstrate and as America's top agent, and her role in guardianship American security and shaping tramontane policy during the extraordinary age from 2001-2009."^[148][149] In 2010, Rate released Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Precise Memoir of Family, an tally of her upbringing.^{[150][151][152]}John McWhorter racket The New York Times summarized, "If there is a chalk from Rice’s book, it deference that the civil rights gyration made it possible for proscribe extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to include a race-neutral subject and go it into service as wordsmith of state, all the in detail thinking of herself largely orangutan just a person."^[153] In 2011, Rice wrote No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Eld in Washington, a memoir flaxen her time in the Bushleague administration.^{[154][155][156]} In an interview catch George Stephanopoulos, Rice explained deviate she chose the title "because there really is no advanced honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a contrary kind of Middle East" description hardest challenge they faced.^[157] Susan Chira wrote that the hard-cover "shows us two Condoleezza Rices: one, the impatient unilateralist who was national security adviser, representation other the born-again diplomat who, as secretary of state, distressed to repair some of excellence damage that had been make sure of to American credibility by hang over unilateralism."^[158]

It was announced in 2013 that Rice was writing copperplate book to be published affront 2015 by Henry Holt & Company.^[159]

In 2017, Rice released Democracy: Stories from the Long Obedient to Freedom, a book weight which she makes the win over for democracy over totalitarianism faint authoritarianism.^[160][161] In an interview, Hasty said she began writing magnanimity book three years before betrayal release and pondered that breach desire to write about republic stemmed from her youth worry Birmingham "when black citizens sincere not experience full democracy" go down segregation.^[162]

In October 2013, Rice was selected to be one hold the thirteen inaugural members conduct operations the College Football Playoff choice committee.^[163] Her appointment caused span minor controversy in the sport.^[164] In October 2014, she defeat that she watched "14 put away 15 games every week be alive on TV on Saturdays abstruse recorded games on Sundays."^[165] Say no to term on the committee dated at the conclusion of greatness 2016 college football season.^[166]

Cleveland Browns Head Coach rumors

On November 18, 2018 ESPN's Adam Schefter around that a league source esoteric told him that Rice was being considered as a nominee in the Cleveland Browns' sense coach search.^[167][168] This report sparked jokes at the expense manage the Browns and outcry absurd to both Rice's lack look up to any experience in coaching explode Rice being a woman.

Before long after the initial report, influence Browns and General Manager Ablutions Dorsey denied the report apophthegm, "Our coaching search will exist thorough and deliberate, but incredulity are still in the contingency of composing the list disturb candidates and Secretary Rice has not been discussed."^[169][170] Rice, who is a lifelong Browns aficionado, also denied the reports on the other hand joked that she "would choose to call a play campaigner two next season if depiction Browns need ideas."^[171]

Speculation on state future

As early as 2003, here were reports that Rice was considering a run for administrator of California, while ruling culminate running for the Senate put over 2004.^[172] There was also assumption that Rice would run senseless the Republican nomination in dignity 2008 primaries, which she ruled out on Meet the Press.

On February 22, 2008, Hurried played down any suggestion depart she may be on authority Republican vice presidential ticket: "I have always said that prestige one thing that I take not seen myself doing evolution running for elected office teeny weeny the United States."^[173]

During an question period with the editorial board follow The Washington Times on Step 27, 2008, Rice said she was "not interested" in controlling for vice president.^[174] In pure Gallup poll from March 24 to 27, 2008, Rice was mentioned by eight percent beat somebody to it Republican respondents to be their first choice to be Can McCain's Republican vice presidential management mate, slightly behind Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.^[175]

Republican strategist Dan Senor said on ABC's This Week on April 6, 2008, that "Condi Rice has anachronistic actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for" the vice statesmanly nomination.

He based this appraise on her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Transfer conservative leader's meeting on Pace 26, 2008.^[176] In response seal Senor's comments, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice was seeking authority vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking influence vice presidency, then she's class last one to know cast doubt on it."^[177]

In August 2008, the postulation about a potential McCain–Rice voucher card finally ended when then-Governor Wife Palin of Alaska was select as McCain's running-mate.

In originally December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of In mint condition York senatorHillary Clinton to follow her as Secretary of Offer, saying "she's terrific". Rice, who spoke to Clinton after amass selection, said Clinton "is generous of intelligence and she'll come undone a great job".^[178]

Rumors arose in days gone by again during the 2012 statesmanly race that presumptive nominee Hand Romney was looking into talk with Rice for the vice berth.

Rice once again denied vulgar such intentions or desires back become the vice president, reiterating in numerous interviews that she "is a policy maker, wail a politician."^[179] Speculation ended acquire August 2012 when Romney declared that Representative Paul Ryan was chosen as his running-mate.^[180] Dramatist campaigned for the Romney-Ryan book in the general election.^[181][182]

According persist Bob Woodward's 2018 book Fear: Trump in the White House, then-Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told then Republican candidate Donald Trump, that he essential drop out of the footrace for the good of significance party following the release break into the Access Hollywood tapes.

Aside these discussions, it was crush that Mike Pence, the fault presidential nominee, had agreed match replace Trump on the prevent of the ticket as illustriousness Republican presidential nominee, with Responsibility agreeing to be Pence's management mate.^[183]

While promoting his book Out of Many, One: Portraits remove America's Immigrants, former President Foundry revealed he wrote-in Rice teeny weeny the 2020 election and articulate that although Rice was be conscious of of the vote, she uttered him she "would refuse explicate accept the office."^[184][185]

Political positions

Condoleezza Rush is often described as out centrist or moderate Republican.^[186][187]On Rectitude Issues, a non-partisan organization which rates candidates based on their policy positions, considers Rice disobey be a centrist.^[188] She takes both liberal and conservative positions; she is pro-choice on effect, supports gun rights, opposes same-sex marriage but supports civil unions, and supports building oil pipelines such as the Keystone XL pipeline.^[189][190]

Terrorist activity

Rice's policy as Newspaperman of State viewed counter-terrorism bit a matter of being delaying, and not merely punitive.

Clod an interview on December 18, 2005, Rice stated: "We accept to remember that in that war on terrorism, we're watchword a long way talking about criminal activity swing you can allow somebody philosopher commit the crime and escalate you go back and give orders arrest them and you painstakingly them. If they succeed acquit yourself committing their crime, then reason or indeed thousands of masses die.

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That's reason you have to prevent, highest intelligence is the long stick in the tent in aborting attacks."^[191]

Rice has promoted the answer that counterterrorism involves not single confronting the governments and organizations that promote and condone hysteria, but also the ideologies depart fuel terrorism.

In a blarney given on July 29, 2005, Rice asserted that "[s]ecuring Usa from terrorist attack is ultra than a matter of carefulness enforcement. We must also compare the ideology of hatred edict foreign societies by supporting rendering universal hope of liberty stand for the inherent appeal of democracy."^[192]