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Who Is She?

Condoleezza Rice

Whatever her politics, one must admit 46 year-old Condoleezza Rice was and is a respected member of Bush the elder's, and Bush the younger's cabinets.  But, who is she?  Who is this woman who speaks with such convincing confidence on issues of foreign affairs and policies?  

Her curriculum vita is impressive.  Though many neither agree with her politics nor some of her quoted statements, she does represent a role model for young African American women -- whether she likes it or not.  --A.D. Odom

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Rice is the stuff role models are made of — intelligent without being pretentious, poised and charismatic. A Stanford colleague once described her as possessing "a kind of intellectual agility mixed with velvet-glove forcefulness."

Unlike other prominent female politicians, Rice has another great strength that I hate to admit matters: She’s attractive enough that some of her media appearances have drawn marriage proposals. What’s more, she weight trains rigorously and spends her Sundays going to church and watching NFL games. Now that’s someone to whom voters can relate.  More . . .
--Erika Wittekind

Condoleezza Rice is the chief foreign policy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Governor George W. Bush.

Condoleezza Rice is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She previously served as a Hoover senior fellow from 1991 until 1993, when she was appointed provost of Stanford University. Rice held the position of provost for six years, during which time she served as the chief academic and budget officer of the university, before stepping down on July 1, 1999. She is on a one-year leave of absence from the university.

Rice first came to Stanford in 1981 as a fellow in the arms control and disarmament program. She is a tenured professor in the university's political science department and was a Hoover Institution national fellow from 1985 until 1986.

Following her initial Hoover Institution affiliation, Rice went to Washington, D.C. to work on nuclear strategic planning at the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. She came back to Stanford when the fellowship ended.

Rice returned to Washington in 1989 when she was director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council. She also was appointed special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Soviet affairs at the National Security Council under President George Bush. In those roles, she helped bring democratic reforms to Poland, and played a vital role in crafting many of the Bush administration's policies with the former Soviet Union.

Rice's professional activities since returning to Stanford have not been limited to the university. She cofounded the Center for a New Generation, an after-school academy in East Palo Alto, California, and is a corporate board member for Chevron, the Hewlett Foundation, and Charles Schwab. In addition, Rice is a member of J.P. Morgan's international advisory council.

Rice is a Council of Foreign Relations member, a National Endowment for the Humanities trustee, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

She has written numerous articles and several books on international relations and foreign affairs, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft, with Philip Zelikow (Harvard University Press, 1995).

Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a bachelor's degree in political science (cum laude). She earned a master's degree at the University of Notre Dame and a doctorate from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are also in political science. (1999)

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Cabinet Watch: National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
by Jim Geraghty, Policy.com

In December 1989, President George H.W. Bush met with then-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, and introduced him to the National Security Council’s director of Soviet and East European Affairs. “This is Condoleezza Rice,” Bush said. "She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union."

More than a decade later, barring an increasingly remote Gore win, Rice will return to the White House in the Administration of another Bush, and now her respon-sibilities are likely to include all issues relating to the national security of the United States. 
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