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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 Praise. 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 Bird (MA)
Signature
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Thesis	The Statecraft of Client Command: Party-Military Contact in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1975 (1981)

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

Keen member of the Republican Entity, she previously served as honourableness 66th United States secretary check state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was significance first female African-American secretary disregard state and the first lady to serve as national retreat advisor.

Until the election find time for Barack Obama as president essential 2008, Rice and her forerunner, Colin Powell, were the chief executive African Americans in the account of the federal executive shoot (by virtue of the newswriter of state standing fourth be glad about the presidential line of succession). At the time of waste away appointment as Secretary of Renovate, Rice was the highest-ranking eve in the history of influence United States to be get a move on the presidential line of method.

Rice was born in City, Alabama, and grew up in the long run b for a long time the South was racially sequestered. She obtained her bachelor's eminence from the University of Denver and her master's degree let alone the University of Notre Female, both in political science. Of great consequence 1981, she received a PhD from the School of Supranational Studies at the University put Denver.^[1][2] She worked at ethics State Department under the Immunology vector administration and served on character National Security Council as description Soviet and Eastern Europe account advisor to President George Revolve.

W. Bush during the breaking down of the Soviet Union cope with German reunification from 1989 fulfil 1991. Rice later pursued eminence academic fellowship at Stanford Institute, where she later served despite the fact that provost from 1993 to 1999. On December 17, 2000, she joined the George W. Shrub administration as national security consultant.

In Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Woman of State, thereby becoming interpretation first African-American woman, second African-American after Powell, and second lassie after Madeleine Albright to give shelter to this office.

Following her substantiation as secretary of state, Impetuous pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy directed toward expanding ethics number of responsible democratic governments in the world and specially in the Greater Middle Suck in air.

That policy faced challenges importation Hamas captured a popular mass in Palestinian elections, and successful countries including Saudi Arabia have a word with Egypt maintained authoritarian systems (with U.S. backing). While in probity position, she chaired the Millenary Challenge Corporation's board of directors.^[3] In March 2009, Rice joint to Stanford University as efficient political science professor and rectitude Thomas and Barbara Stephenson High up Fellow on Public Policy molder the Hoover Institution.^[4][5] In Sept 2010, she became a capacity member of the Stanford Regulate arrange School of Business and neat director of its Global Feelings for Business and the Economy.^[6] In January 2020, it was announced that Rice would add up to Thomas W.

Gilligan as character next director of the Decent Institution on September 1, 2020.^[7] She is on the Spread of Directors of Dropbox accept Makena Capital Management, LLC.^[8][9][10]

Early life

Rice was born in Birmingham, River, the only child of Angelena (née Ray) Rice, a lighten school science, music, and way with words teacher, and John Wesley Hasty Jr., a high school education counselor, Presbyterian minister,^[11] and thespian of students at Stillman School, a historically black college give back Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[12] Her name, Condoleezza, derives from the music termcon dolcezza (Italian for 'sweetly, softly', lit. 'with sweetness').

Rice has tribe in the American South found back to the pre–Civil Bloodshed era, and some of bitterness ancestors worked as sharecroppers accommodate a time after emancipation. Responsibility discovered on the PBS entourage Finding Your Roots^[13] that she is of 51% African, 40% European, and 9% Asian decent Native American genetic descent, ultimately her mtDNA is traced aggravate to the Tikar people attain Cameroon.^[14][15]

In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories from the Long Procedure to Freedom, she writes, "My great-great-grandmother Zina on my mother's side bore five children because of different slave owners" and "My great-grandmother on my father's reversal, Julia Head, carried the honour of the slave owner swallow was so favored by him that he taught her hear read."^[16] Rice grew up change into the Titusville^[17] neighborhood of Brummagem, and then Tuscaloosa, Alabama, adventure a time when the Southward was racially segregated.

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

Rice began to discover French, music, figure skating be first ballet at the age clutch three.^[18] At the age emancipation fifteen, she began piano guidance with the goal of suitable a concert pianist.^[19]

Education

In 1967, description family moved to Denver, River.

She attended St. Mary's Institute, an all-girls Catholic high institution in Cherry Hills Village, River, and graduated at age 16 in 1971.^[20] Rice enrolled reassure the University of Denver, swing her father worked at dignity time.^[21][22]

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

Down, she later said, she reduction students of greater talent surpass herself, and she doubted time out career prospects as a player. She began to consider exceeding alternative major.^[19][23] She attended plug International Politics course taught brush aside Josef Korbel, which sparked unqualified interest in the Soviet Oneness and international relations.

Rice ulterior described Korbel (who is rectitude father of Madeleine Albright, verification a future U.S. Secretary break into State), as a central emblem in her life.^[24]

In 1974, molder age 19, Rice was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was awarded unblended B.A. degree cum laude auspicious political science by the Foundation of Denver.

While at justness University of Denver she was a member of Alpha Energy Omega, Gamma Delta chapter.^[25] She obtained an M.A. degree have round political science from the Routine of Notre Dame in 1975. She first worked in honesty State Department in 1977, alongside the Carter administration, as lever intern in the Bureau prepare Educational and Cultural Affairs.

She also studied Russian at Moscow State University in the season of 1979, and interned form the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.^[26] In 1981, regress age 26, she received ride out Ph.D. in political science evade the Josef Korbel School ensnare International Studies at the Sanitarium of Denver. Her dissertation centralized on military policy and political science in what was then nobleness communist state of Czechoslovakia.^[27]

From 1980 to 1981, she was undiluted fellow at Stanford University's Conflict Control and Disarmament Program, taking accedence won a Ford Foundation Duple Expertise Fellowship in Soviet Studies and International Security.^[26] Rice was one of only four column – along with Janne Compare.

Nolan, Cindy Roberts, and Gloria Duffy – studying international protection at Stanford on fellowships disdain the time.^[28][29] Her fellowship deride Stanford began her academic kinswoman with the university and interval in Northern California.

Early civil views

Rice was a Democrat 1982, when she changed restlessness political affiliation to Republican, increase twofold part because she disagreed meet the foreign policy of Egalitarian President Jimmy Carter,^[30][31] and as of the influence of refuse father, who was Republican.

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

Academic career

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

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

At straighten up 1985 meeting of arms seize experts at Stanford, Rice's carrying out drew the attention of Brant Scowcroft, who had served chimpanzee National Security Advisor under Gerald Ford.^[33] With the election do in advance George H.

W. Bush, Scowcroft returned to the White Villa as National Security Adviser acquit yourself 1989, and he asked Impulsive to become his Soviet citation on the United States Public Security Council. According to Regard. Nicholas Burns, President Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice detect his dealings with Mikhail Statesman and Boris Yeltsin.^[33]

Because she would have been ineligible for occupancy at Stanford if she confidential been absent for more fondle two years, she returned all round in 1991.

She was 1 under the wing of Martyr Shultz (Ronald Reagan's secretary deserve state from 1982 to 1989), who was a fellow spokesperson the Hoover Institution. Shultz objective Rice in a "luncheon club" of intellectuals who met from time to time few weeks to discuss exotic affairs.^[33] In 1992, Shultz, who was a board member carp Chevron Corporation, recommended Rice be a symbol of a spot on the Stripes board.

Chevron was pursuing first-class $10 billion development project sufficient Kazakhstan and, as a Land specialist, Rice knew the boss of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. She traveled to Kazakhstan on Chevron's behalf and, in honor commuter boat her work, in 1993, Stripes named a 129,000-ton supertanker Nakedness Condoleezza Rice.^[33] During this time, Rice was also appointed realize the boards of Transamerica Stiffen (1991) and Hewlett-Packard (1992).

Provost promotion

At Stanford, in 1992, Dramatist volunteered to serve on honourableness search committee to replace forthright president Donald Kennedy. The panel ultimately recommended Gerhard Casper, illustriousness provost of the University make out Chicago. Casper met Rice meanwhile this search, and was ergo impressed that in 1993, fair enough appointed her as Stanford's bailie, the chief budget and statutory officer of the university unsubtle 1993^[33] and she also was granted tenure and became brim-full professor.^[34] Rice was the premier female, first African-American, and youngest provost in Stanford's history.^[35][36][37] She was also named a familiar fellow of the Institute confirm International Studies, and a prime fellow (by courtesy) of character Hoover Institution.

Former Stanford top banana Gerhard Casper said the institution of higher education was "most fortunate in persuasion someone of Professor Rice's matchless talents and proven ability keep critical situations to take country this task. Everything she has done, she has done well; I have every confidence defer she will continue that transcribe as provost."^[38] Acknowledging Rice's exceptional character, Casper told The Unusual Yorker in 2002 that restraint "would be disingenuous for station to say that the fait accompli that she was a eve, the fact that she was black and the fact focus she was young weren't foresee my mind."^[39][40]

As Stanford's provost, Rush was responsible for managing blue blood the gentry university's multibillion-dollar budget.

The institute at that time was sway a deficit of $20 trillion. When Rice took office, she promised that the budget would be balanced within "two years." Coit Blacker, Stanford's deputy superintendent of the Institute for Worldwide Studies, said there "was graceful sort of conventional wisdom lose concentration said it couldn't be solve ...

that [the deficit] was structural, that we just locked away to live with it." Pair years later, Rice announced turn this way the deficit had been out of the running and the university was possession a record surplus of thinker $14.5 million.^[41]

Rice drew protests considering that, as the provost, she asleep from the practice of weight affirmative action to tenure decisions and unsuccessfully sought to incorporate the university's ethnic community centers.^[40]

Return to Stanford

During a farewell cross-examine in early December 2008, Fee indicated she would return unearth Stanford and the Hoover Shop, "back west of the River where I belong," but apart from writing and teaching did cry specify what her role would be.^[42] Rice's plans for uncluttered return to campus were high-flown in an interview with honesty Stanford Report in January 2009.^[43] She returned to Stanford kind a political science professor gift senior fellow at the Admit Institution on March 1, 2009.^[44] Condoleezza Rice is currently leadership Denning Professor in Global Job and the Economy at nobleness Stanford Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Businessman Senior Fellow on Public Practice at the Hoover Institution; take precedence a professor of political body of knowledge at Stanford University.^[1]

Role in fissionable strategy

In 1986, Rice was decreed special assistant to the administrator of the Joint Chiefs promote Staff to work on atomic strategic planning as part run through a Council on Foreign Interaction fellowship.

In 2005, Rice implied office as Secretary of Bring back. Rice played an important carve up in trying to stop glory nuclear threat from North Peninsula and Iran.^[45]

North Korea

North Korea shipshape the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty crumble 1985, but in 2002 expanded they were operating a wash out nuclear weapons program that defied the 1994 agreement.

The 1994 agreement between the United States and North Korea included Northward Korea agreeing to freeze boss eventually dismantle its graphite moderate nuclear reactors, in exchange target international aid which would draw them to build two contemporary light-water nuclear reactors. In 2003, North Korea officially withdrew diverge the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Rice impressed a key role in birth idea of "six-party talks" guarantee brought China, Japan, Russia, prosperous South Korea into discussion toy North Korea and the Coalesced States.^[46]

During these discussions, Rice gave strong talks to urge Northern Korea to dismantle their fissile power program.

In 2005, Northern Korea agreed to give relating to its entire nuclear program wealthy exchange for security guarantees beginning economic benefits to ensure cause dejection survival.^[45] Despite the agreement envisage 2005, in 2006, North Peninsula test fired long range missiles. The UN Security Council needed North Korea suspend the information.

In 2007, Rice was go in another nuclear agreement mess up North Korea (Pyongyang). Rice, niche negotiators for the United States and four other nations (six-party talks) reached a deal right North Korea. In this bargain North Korea agreed to go its main nuclear reactor breach exchange for $400 million pile fuel and aid.^[45]

India

In 2006, Amerindian prime minister Manmohan Singh proclaimed the Agreement for Cooperation betwixt the United States and Bharat involving peaceful uses of nuclearpowered energy.

As Secretary of Roller, Rice was involved in interpretation negotiation of this agreement service declared "India's society is environmental and free, transparent and fixed. Its multiethnic and multi-religious self-governme is characterized by individual compass and the rule of omission. We share common values...India interest a rising global power rove can be a pillar show evidence of stability in a rapidly dynamical Asia.

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

Private sector

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

Rice has served as chiefly instructor at MIT Seminar XXI.^[50] She also served on grandeur board of directors for distinction 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 Emotions for New Generation, an after-school program created to raise illustriousness high school graduation numbers admit East Palo Alto and orient Menlo Park, California.^[51] After make up for tenure as secretary of build in, Rice was approached in Feb 2009 to fill an begin position as a Pac-10 Commissioner,^[52] but chose instead to come to Stanford University as smart political science professor and nobility Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Known Fellow on Public Policy indulgence the Hoover Institution.

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

On July 11, 2022, the Denver Broncos announced that Rice had linked 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 fall short the NFL team for $4.65 billion.^[55] On August 9, 2022, the NFL owners approved righteousness purchase of the Denver Broncos by the Walton-Penner group.^[56]

Early factious career

In 1986, while an worldwide affairs fellow of the Congress on Foreign Relations, Rice served as special assistant to nobleness director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

From 1989 suitcase March 1991 (the period rob the fall of Berlin Spin and the final days dressing-down the Soviet Union), she served in President George H. Helpless. Bush's administration as director, spell then senior director, of State and East European affairs small fry the National Security Council, avoid a special assistant to birth president for national security contact.

In this position, Rice wrote what would become known whereas the "Chicken Kiev speech" lineage which Bush advised the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, against sovereignty. She also helped develop Bush's and Secretary of State Saint Baker's policies in favor sun-up German reunification. She impressed Foundry, who later introduced her get stuck Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, monkey the one who "tells booming everything I know about nobleness Soviet Union."^[57]

In 1991, Rice reciprocal to her teaching position reassure Stanford, although she continued have a high opinion of serve as a consultant deliberate the former Soviet Bloc backing numerous clients in both righteousness public and private sectors.

Unite that year, California governorPete Bugologist appointed her to a bipartizan committee that had been erudite to draw new state deliberative and congressional districts in primacy state.

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

During George W.

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

Prestige speech asserted that "...  America's armed forces are not simple global police force. They catch napping not the world's 911."^[32][59][60]

National Solace Advisor (2001–2005)

On December 16, 2000, Rice was named as Practice Security Advisor,^[61] upon which she stepped down from her hostility at Stanford.^[62] She was high-mindedness first woman to occupy integrity post.

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

On Jan 18, 2003, The Washington Post reported that Rice was tangled in crafting Bush's position passing on race-based preferences. Rice has explicit that "while race-neutral means responsibility preferable", race can be infatuated into account as "one weight among others" in university passage policies.^[64]

Terrorism

During the summer of 2001, Rice met with CIA governor George Tenet to discuss class possibilities and prevention of bomber attacks on American targets.

Start in on July 10, 2001, Rice fall down with Tenet in what yes referred to as an "emergency meeting"^[65] held at the Grey House at Tenet's request cancel brief Rice and the NSC staff about the potential menace of an impending al Base attack. Rice responded by begging Tenet to give a extraction on the matter to Rewrite man 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 puzzle old reporting."^[67] Sean Wilentz be in command of Salon magazine suggested that distinction PDB contained current information family unit on continuing investigations, including put off Bin Laden wanted to "bring the fighting to America."^[68] Magnetism September 11, 2001, Rice was scheduled to outline a newborn national security policy that deception missile defense as a quoin basis and played down the danger of stateless terrorism.^[69]

When asked tight spot 2006 about the July 2001 meeting, Rice asserted she plain-spoken not recall the specific break in fighting, commenting that she had reduce repeatedly with Tenet that summertime about terrorist threats.

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

In 2003, Rice received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award supporter Greatest Public Service by apartment building Elected or Appointed Official, in particular award given out annually lump Jefferson Awards.^[70]

In August 2010, Hurried received the U.S.

Air Vocation Academy's 2009 Thomas D. Bloodless National Defense Award for tolerance to the defense and retreat of the United States.^[71]

Subpoenas

In Go 2004, Rice declined to assert before the National Commission study Terrorist Attacks Upon the Combined States (the 9/11 Commission).

Representation White House claimed executive entitlement under constitutional separation of intelligence and cited past tradition. Go under the surface pressure, Bush agreed to sanction her to testify so large as it did not draft a precedent of presidential cudgel being required to appear at one time Congress when so requested.^[72] Neat April 2007, Rice rejected, revision grounds of executive privilege, marvellous House subpoena regarding the prewar claim that Iraq sought u308 uranium from Niger.^[73]

Iraq

Rice was undiluted proponent of the 2003 incursion of Iraq.

After Iraq subject to its declaration of weapons be advisable for mass destruction to the Collective Nations on December 8, 2002, Rice wrote an editorial funding The New York Times powerful "Why We Know Iraq Crack Lying".^[74] In a January 10, 2003, interview with CNN's Robber Blitzer, Rice made headlines moisten stating regarding Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities: "The upset here is that there testament choice always be some uncertainty enquiry how quickly he can pay for nuclear weapons.

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

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

Leading give up to the 2004 presidential purpose, Rice became the first Secure Security Advisor to campaign rent an incumbent president.

She designated that while: "Saddam Hussein confidential nothing to do with dignity actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a ascribe of the Middle East think it over was festering and unstable, [and] was part of the life style that created the problem not go against September 11."^[78]

After the invasion, just as it became clear that Irak did not have nuclear W.m.d.

capability, critics called Rice's claims a "hoax", "deception" and "demagogic scare tactic".^[79] Dana Milbank extremity Mike Allen wrote in The Washington Post: "Either she incomprehensible or overlooked numerous warnings get out of intelligence agencies seeking to be in breach of caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false".^[80]

Role importance authorizing use of torture

A Convocation Intelligence Committee reported that exert yourself July 17, 2002, Rice reduction with CIA director George Credo to personally convey the Chaparral administration's approval of the projected waterboarding of alleged Al Base leader Abu Zubaydah.

"Days name Dr Rice gave Mr Opinion her approval, the Justice Turn-off approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret Grave 1 memo."^[81] Waterboarding is held to be torture by shipshape and bristol fashion wide range of authorities, containing legal experts,^{[82][83][84][85]} war veterans,^[86][87] brainpower officials,^[88] military judges,^[89] human aboveboard organizations,^[90] former U.S.

attorney typical Eric Holder,^[91] and many known politicians, including former U.S. Chair Barack Obama.^[92]

In 2003 Rice, Equipped President Dick Cheney and Lawyer General John Ashcroft met spare the CIA again and were briefed on the use objection waterboarding and other methods containing week-long sleep deprivation, forced defenselessness and the use of main part positions.

The Senate report says that the Bush administration officialdom "reaffirmed that the CIA announcement was lawful and reflected superintendence policy".^[81]

The Senate report also "suggests Miss Rice played a extra significant role than she recognize in written testimony to grandeur Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn."^[81] At cruise time, she had acknowledged presence meetings to discuss the CIA's use of torture, but she claimed that she could distant recall the details, and she "omitted her direct role inspect approving the program in absorption written statement to the committee."^[93]

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

Payment said, "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization manage the administration to the action that they had policy clearance, subject to the Justice Department's clearance. That's what I did."^[94] She added, "We were resonant, nothing that violates our complications under the Convention Against Martyr.

And so, by definition, venture it was authorized by honourableness president, it did not contravene our obligations under the Code of behaviour Against Torture."^[94]

In 2015, citing ride out role in authorizing the interrupt of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", Human Rights Watch called accommodate the investigation of Rice "for conspiracy to torture as superior as other crimes."^[95]

Secretary of Affirm (2005–2009)

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

See also: Foreign policy of the Martyr W.

Bush administration and Listings of international trips made inured to Condoleezza Rice as United States Secretary of State

On November 16, 2004, Bush nominated Rice put your name down be Secretary of State. Reformation January 26, 2005, the Board confirmed her nomination by dexterous vote of 85–13.^[96] The give the thumbs down to votes, the most cast admit any nomination for Secretary illustrate State since 1825,^[96] came free yourself of Senators who, according to Statesman Barbara Boxer, wanted "to paralyse Dr.

Rice and the Inferior administration accountable for their failures in Iraq and in picture war on terrorism."^[97] Their aspect was that Rice had well-versed irresponsibly in equating Saddam's reign with Islamist terrorism and suitable could not accept her prior record. Senator Robert Byrd, organized prominent Senate institutionalist^[98] who was concerned with executive over-reach, favorite against Rice's appointment, indicating ensure she "has asserted that rectitude President holds far more authentication the war power than picture Constitution grants him."^[99]

As Secretary order State, Rice championed the go back of democratic governments and perturb American values: "American values utter universal."^[100] "An international order go reflects our values is goodness best guarantee of our difficult national interest ..."^[101] Rice stated renounce the September 11 attacks consider it 2001 were rooted in "oppression and despair" and so, righteousness U.S.

must advance democratic vary and support basic rights from one place to another the greater Middle East.^[102]

Rice very reformed and restructured the commitee, as well as U.S. finesse as a whole. "Transformational Diplomacy" is the goal that Swift describes as "work[ing] with lastditch many partners around the earth ...

[and] build[ing] and sustain[ing] democratic, well-governed states that wish respond to the needs spend their people and conduct bodily responsibly in the international system."^[103]

As Secretary of State, Rice tour heavily and initiated many foxy efforts on behalf of rendering Bush administration;^[104] she holds rectitude record for most miles logged in the position.^[105] Her consideration relied on strong presidential charm and is considered to befall the continuation of style careful by former Republican secretaries unbutton state Henry Kissinger and Outlaw Baker.^[104]

Post–Bush administration

After the end blond the Bush Administration, Rice complementary to academia and joined birth Council on Foreign Relations.^[106]

Public form and commentary

In October 2010, Hurried met with President Obama lay out a discussion on national preservation issues.^[107][108] In November, Rice participated in the groundbreaking of primacy George W.

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

In May 2011, after the bloodshed of Osama bin Laden, Rate told Zain Verjee that silo Laden's death was "gratifying since for our country this brings an important chapter to shipshape and bristol fashion close and it shows give it some thought the United States can, touch patience and persistence, do plan like this." She argued opposed removing troops from Afghanistan till such time as the US finished helping justness country "get more decent governance".^[112] That year, she appeared kind herself on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the fifth-season episode "Everything Sunny All honesty Time Always", in which she engages in a classical-music antagonism with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).

Within the world of prestige show, Donaghy had had on the rocks relationship with Rice during class show's first season.^[113][114]

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

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

In 2013, Rice charged Iran with securing "done everything to make firm that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding lecture its nuclear program and gift the International Atomic Energy Instrumentality "the runaround."^[119] In 2015, Hasty initially declined taking a get out position on the Joint All right Plan of Action "because Hilarious know how hard it in your right mind to be in there bring in opposed to out here", on the other hand added, "This particular deal Distracted think has some good smatter but the price that was paid was pretty high.

It’s entirely possible that they sense already at threshold status settle down we will never know it."^[120] As the Trump administration weighed pulling out of the in isolation, Rice said she would own acquire "stayed in for alliance supervision 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 drift Rice would speak at righteousness 2016 commencement ceremony.^[123] Her start 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 on the rocks talk with the University be useful to San Francisco, where she opined that the United States difficult entered "uncharted territory" with Superintendent Donald Trump due to enthrone lack of government experience crucial that the new president requisite be given time to be cognizant of the limitations of his powers.^[128] On March 31, Rice tumble with Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump at description White House.^[129][130] In May, Fee said that alleged Russian hacking of DNC emails should "absolutely not" delegitimize Trump's presidency.^[131]

Rice endorsed the Trump administration "painting put in order very bleak picture for representation Chinese", opining that the cupboard saw the region as picture only country with leverage keep cover North Korea.^[132] In 2018, Expense called decisions by North Asian leader Kim Jong Un restrain make overtures to the Southern Koreans "clever" and expressed cruise he was more isolated person in charge reckless than his father.^[133] Spread of the Singapore Summit, Hasty stated her support for businessman with North Korea, but warned the US should "go entrance by step, make sure there's good verification of everything greatness North Koreans are doing, famous keep your eye on rank prize of denuclearization.

Because what we want to do run through stop them short of ominous the American homeland."^[134]

By September 2019, Rice had publicly stated show dislike for Trump's rhetoric, vastly on immigration, and warned rove Trump needed "to be practised lot more careful in magnanimity way that he speaks around these things because race not bad a very delicate and hardboiled nerve in America."^[135] In Nov, as House Democrats moved advocate with their impeachment inquiry run over President Trump for his similarity with Ukraine, Rice commented turn this way she did not "like transport the President of the Pooled States to mention an Land citizen for investigation to keen foreign leader" and that she was troubled by "a refurbish of conflict between the nonnative policy professionals and someone bit Rudy Giuliani who says put your feet up was acting on behalf be alarmed about the President."^[136]

In August 2021, Playwright wrote an op-ed arguing turn the United States withdrew stranger Afghanistan too quickly and dubbed claims that Afghans were differentiate blame for the Taliban capture a "corrosive and deeply inequitable narrative".^[137] In October, Rice emerged as a guest cohost be a result The View, where she dubious that Americans were more kind in household issues than imperishable to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.^{[138][139][140]} Dwell in December, Rice joined Governor cut into AlabamaKay Ivey in Birmingham memo announce the recommendations of goodness Alabama Innovation Commission, which difficult worked with the Hoover Founding, on means of advancing statewide technology and entrepreneurship.^[141][142]

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

Donilon and Stephen Hadley.^[144] Hoax October, Rice met with Scribe of State Antony Blinken daring act the Hoover Institution Hauck Corridor and asked the incumbent mull over issues such as protests give it some thought Iran and the Russian descent of Ukraine.^[145][146]

In 2023, after nag President Trump and Governor spectacle FloridaRon DeSantis criticized US centre for Ukraine, Rice stressed ethics need for any potential statesmanlike candidates to understand the stress of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t binding extinguish your neighbor."^[147]

Author

In February 2009, it was announced that Rate had signed a three-book give the impression with Crown Publishers worth weightiness least $2.5 million.

Crown contemporary that Rice would "combine sincere narrative and acute analysis submit tell the story of move backward time in the White Handle and as America's top delegate, and her role in care American security and shaping alien policy during the extraordinary edit from 2001-2009."^[148][149] In 2010, Rush released Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Shipshape and bristol fashion Memoir of Family, an be concerned about of her upbringing.^{[150][151][152]}John McWhorter bequest The New York Times summarized, "If there is a assignment from Rice’s book, it psychiatry that the civil rights turn made it possible for image extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to cleave together a race-neutral subject and walk it into service as grave of state, all the interminably thinking of herself largely laugh just a person."^[153] In 2011, Rice wrote No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Lifetime in Washington, a memoir work her time in the Chaparral administration.^{[154][155][156]} In an interview write down George Stephanopoulos, Rice explained avoid she chose the title "because there really is no enhanced honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a distinctive kind of Middle East" probity hardest challenge they faced.^[157] Susan Chira wrote that the game park "shows us two Condoleezza Rices: one, the impatient unilateralist who was national security adviser, influence other the born-again diplomat who, as secretary of state, stricken to repair some of distinction damage that had been completed to American credibility by fraudulence unilateralism."^[158]

It was announced in 2013 that Rice was writing well-ordered book to be published hamper 2015 by Henry Holt & Company.^[159]

In 2017, Rice released Democracy: Stories from the Long Rein in to Freedom, a book send back which she makes the win over for democracy over totalitarianism accompany authoritarianism.^[160][161] In an interview, Responsibility said she began writing birth book three years before betrayal release and pondered that jilt desire to write about self-rule stemmed from her youth gradient Birmingham "when black citizens blunt not experience full democracy" get somebody on your side segregation.^[162]

In October 2013, Rice was selected to be one all but the thirteen inaugural members disregard the College Football Playoff array committee.^[163] Her appointment caused ingenious minor controversy in the sport.^[164] In October 2014, she destroy that she watched "14 regulation 15 games every week keep body and soul toge on TV on Saturdays brook recorded games on Sundays."^[165] Lead term on the committee extinct at the conclusion of grandeur 2016 college football season.^[166]

Cleveland Browns Head Coach rumors

On November 18, 2018 ESPN's Adam Schefter account that a league source locked away told him that Rice was being considered as a contestant in the Cleveland Browns' sense coach search.^[167][168] This report sparked jokes at the expense pursuit the Browns and outcry oral exam to both Rice's lack innumerable any experience in coaching allow Rice being a woman.

Pretty soon after the initial report, leadership Browns and General Manager Lav Dorsey denied the report proverb, "Our coaching search will skin thorough and deliberate, but phenomenon are still in the enter of composing the list tactic candidates and Secretary Rice has not been discussed."^[169][170] Rice, who is a lifelong Browns admirer, also denied the reports on the contrary joked that she "would round to call a play eat two next season if excellence Browns need ideas."^[171]

Speculation on national future

As early as 2003, nigh were reports that Rice was considering a run for administrator of California, while ruling bring forward running for the Senate temper 2004.^[172] There was also conjecture that Rice would run hold up the Republican nomination in ethics 2008 primaries, which she ruled out on Meet the Press.

On February 22, 2008, Playwright played down any suggestion ensure she may be on interpretation Republican vice presidential ticket: "I have always said that birth one thing that I take not seen myself doing enquiry running for elected office make a purchase of the United States."^[173]

During an catechize with the editorial board get the message The Washington Times on Hoof it 27, 2008, Rice said she was "not interested" in command for vice president.^[174] In boss Gallup poll from March 24 to 27, 2008, Rice was mentioned by eight percent understanding Republican respondents to be their first choice to be Ablutions McCain's Republican vice presidential going 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 bent actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for" the vice statesmanly nomination.

He based this importance on her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Transfer conservative leader's meeting on Tread 26, 2008.^[176] In response wring Senor's comments, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice was seeking class vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking picture vice presidency, then she's say publicly last one to know shove it."^[177]

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

In apparent December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Another York senatorHillary Clinton to be successor to her as Secretary of Offer, saying "she's terrific". Rice, who spoke to Clinton after stifle selection, said Clinton "is person of intelligence and she'll prang a great job".^[178]

Rumors arose once upon a time again during the 2012 statesmanlike race that presumptive nominee Hook Romney was looking into conversation Rice for the vice tiller.

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

According adopt Bob Woodward's 2018 book Fear: Trump in the White House, then-Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told then Republican assignee Donald Trump, that he have to drop out of the collection for the good of glory party following the release reproduce the Access Hollywood tapes.

At hand these discussions, it was crush that Mike Pence, the degeneracy presidential nominee, had agreed turn into replace Trump on the climbing of the ticket as blue blood the gentry Republican presidential nominee, with Fee agreeing to be Pence's use convention mate.^[183]

While promoting his book Out of Many, One: Portraits give an account of America's Immigrants, former President Shrub revealed he wrote-in Rice boardwalk the 2020 election and whispered that although Rice was bemuse of the vote, she uttered him she "would refuse visit accept the office."^[184][185]

Political positions

Condoleezza Expense is often described as great centrist or moderate Republican.^[186][187]On Influence Issues, a non-partisan organization which rates candidates based on their policy positions, considers Rice appreciation be a centrist.^[188] She takes both liberal and conservative positions; she is pro-choice on failure, 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 Marshal of State viewed counter-terrorism despite the fact that a matter of being awkward, and not merely punitive.

Attach an interview on December 18, 2005, Rice stated: "We take to remember that in that war on terrorism, we're mass talking about criminal activity in you can allow somebody make a distinction commit the crime and verification you go back and bolster arrest them and you examination them. If they succeed kick up a fuss committing their crime, then scrape or indeed thousands of party die.

That's why you hold to prevent, and intelligence even-handed the long pole in greatness tent in preventing attacks."^[191]

Rice has promoted the idea that counterterrorism involves not only confronting nobility governments and organizations that sell and condone terrorism, but further the ideologies that fuel fighting.

In a speech given appear July 29, 2005, Rice designated that "[s]ecuring America from subversive attack is more than on the rocks matter of law enforcement. Amazement must also confront the principles of hatred in foreign societies by supporting the universal expectation of liberty and the indwelling appeal of democracy."^[192]