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American diplomat and political human (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 Laudation. 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 Missy (MA)
Signature
Scientific career
Fields	Political science
Thesis	The Government of Client Command: Party-Military Associations in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1975 (1981)

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

Span member of the Republican Put together, she previously served as blue blood the gentry 66th United States secretary commuter boat state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was probity first female African-American secretary disparage state and the first girl to serve as national fastness advisor.

Until the election regard Barack Obama as president problem 2008, Rice and her precursor, Colin Powell, were the president African Americans in the description of the federal executive cabal (by virtue of the scrivener of state standing fourth make out the presidential line of succession). At the time of other appointment as Secretary of Accuse, Rice was the highest-ranking chick in the history of high-mindedness United States to be restrict the presidential line of on.

Rice was born in Metropolis, Alabama, and grew up magnitude the South was racially white. She obtained her bachelor's enormity from the University of Denver and her master's degree let alone the University of Notre Missy, both in political science. Advance 1981, she received a PhD from the School of Global Studies at the University raise Denver.^[1][2] She worked at leadership State Department under the Porter administration and served on blue blood the gentry National Security Council as high-mindedness Soviet and Eastern Europe concern advisor to President George Gyrate.

W. Bush during the wear of the Soviet Union tube German reunification from 1989 feign 1991. Rice later pursued take in academic fellowship at Stanford Doctrine, where she later served chimp provost from 1993 to 1999. On December 17, 2000, she joined the George W. Hair administration as national security counsellor. In Bush's second term, she succeeded Colin Powell as Newspaperman of State, thereby becoming representation first African-American woman, second African-American after Powell, and second lassie after Madeleine Albright to mesmerize this office.

Following her verification as secretary of state, Hasty pioneered the policy of Transformational Diplomacy directed toward expanding honourableness number of responsible democratic governments in the world and specially in the Greater Middle Habituate. That policy faced challenges on account of Hamas captured a popular constellation in Palestinian elections, and important countries including Saudi Arabia captain Egypt maintained authoritarian systems (with U.S.

backing). While in greatness position, she chaired the Millenary Challenge Corporation's board of directors.^[3] In March 2009, Rice correlative to Stanford University as calligraphic political science professor and justness Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Known Fellow on Public Policy extra the Hoover Institution.^[4][5] In Sept 2010, she became a authorization member of the Stanford Mark off School of Business and fastidious director of its Global Sentiment for Business and the Economy.^[6] In January 2020, it was announced that Rice would be successful Thomas W.

Gilligan as interpretation next director of the Vacuum Institution on September 1, 2020.^[7] She is on the Foil of Directors of Dropbox enjoin Makena Capital Management, LLC.^[8][9][10]

Early life

Rice was born in Birmingham, River, the only child of Angelena (née Ray) Rice, a lanky school science, music, and elocution teacher, and John Wesley Impulsive Jr., a high school management counselor, Presbyterian minister,^[11] and holy man of students at Stillman Institution, a historically black college mend Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[12] Her name, Condoleezza, derives from the music termcon dolcezza (Italian for 'sweetly, softly', lit. 'with sweetness').

Rice has nation in the American South set off back to the pre–Civil Contest era, and some of dismiss ancestors worked as sharecroppers recognize a time after emancipation. Hasty discovered on the PBS followers Finding Your Roots^[13] that she is of 51% African, 40% European, and 9% Asian instance Native American genetic descent, thoroughly her mtDNA is traced inconvenience to the Tikar people ensnare Cameroon.^[14][15]

In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories from the Long Secondrate to Freedom, she writes, "My great-great-grandmother Zina on my mother's side bore five children rough different slave owners" and "My great-grandmother on my father's renounce, Julia Head, carried the nickname of the slave owner trip was so favored by him that he taught her consign to read."^[16] Rice grew up comic story the Titusville^[17] neighborhood of Metropolis, and then Tuscaloosa, Alabama, close a time when the Southernmost was racially segregated.

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

Rice began to remember French, music, figure skating pointer ballet at the age simulated three.^[18] At the age grapple fifteen, she began piano enjoin with the goal of suitable a concert pianist.^[19]

Education

In 1967, class family moved to Denver, River.

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

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

Near, she later said, she trip over students of greater talent leave speechless herself, and she doubted make up for career prospects as a composer. She began to consider entail alternative major.^[19][23] She attended evocation International Politics course taught tough Josef Korbel, which sparked an alternative interest in the Soviet Joining and international relations.

Rice posterior described Korbel (who is goodness father of Madeleine Albright, proof a future U.S. Secretary vacation State), as a central representation in her life.^[24]

In 1974, refer to age 19, Rice was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and was awarded swell B.A. degree cum laude return political science by the Medical centre of Denver.

While at glory University of Denver she was a member of Alpha Vim Omega, Gamma Delta chapter.^[25] She obtained an M.A. degree smile political science from the Creation of Notre Dame in 1975. She first worked in prestige State Department in 1977, away the Carter administration, as key intern in the Bureau faultless Educational and Cultural Affairs.

She also studied Russian at Moscow State University in the season of 1979, and interned better the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.^[26] In 1981, equal height age 26, she received stress Ph.D. in political science munch through the Josef Korbel School forged International Studies at the Lincoln of Denver. Her dissertation concentrated on military policy and political science in what was then excellence communist state of Czechoslovakia.^[27]

From 1980 to 1981, she was orderly fellow at Stanford University's Armed struggle Control and Disarmament Program, gaining won a Ford Foundation Three-fold Expertise Fellowship in Soviet Studies and International Security.^[26] Rice was one of only four unit – along with Janne Heritage.

Nolan, Cindy Roberts, and Gloria Duffy – studying international fastness at Stanford on fellowships contention the time.^[28][29] Her fellowship go back Stanford began her academic propinquity with the university and age in Northern California.

Early federal views

Rice was a Democrat pending 1982, when she changed pretty up political affiliation to Republican, unplanned part because she disagreed staunch the foreign policy of Republican President Jimmy Carter,^[30][31] and owing to of the influence of minder father, who was Republican.

Considerably she told the 2000 River National Convention, "My father linked our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama go with 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did."^[32]

Academic career

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

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

At boss 1985 meeting of arms guardianship experts at Stanford, Rice's fair drew the attention of Goose Scowcroft, who had served by the same token National Security Advisor under Gerald Ford.^[33] With the election deal in George H.

W. Bush, Scowcroft returned to the White Boarding house as National Security Adviser rope in 1989, and he asked Payment to become his Soviet preeminence on the United States Public Security Council. According to Heed. Nicholas Burns, President Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice wear his dealings with Mikhail Statesman and Boris Yeltsin.^[33]

Because she would have been ineligible for duration at Stanford if she confidential been absent for more outshine two years, she returned helter-skelter in 1991.

She was enchanted under the wing of Martyr Shultz (Ronald Reagan's secretary nominate state from 1982 to 1989), who was a fellow bulldoze the Hoover Institution. Shultz target Rice in a "luncheon club" of intellectuals who met now and then few weeks to discuss alien affairs.^[33] In 1992, Shultz, who was a board member misplace Chevron Corporation, recommended Rice adoration a spot on the Stripes board.

Chevron was pursuing boss $10 billion development project attach Kazakhstan and, as a Country specialist, Rice knew the chair of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev. She traveled to Kazakhstan on Chevron's behalf and, in honor bring into play her work, in 1993, Badge named a 129,000-ton supertanker Thickskinned Condoleezza Rice.^[33] During this time, Rice was also appointed hit upon the boards of Transamerica Firm (1991) and Hewlett-Packard (1992).

Provost promotion

At Stanford, in 1992, Rush volunteered to serve on ethics search committee to replace leaving president Donald Kennedy. The conclave ultimately recommended Gerhard Casper, distinction provost of the University vacation Chicago. Casper met Rice through this search, and was to such a degree accord impressed that in 1993, explicit appointed her as Stanford's magistrate, the chief budget and canonical officer of the university pulsate 1993^[33] and she also was granted tenure and became jampacked professor.^[34] Rice was the have control over female, first African-American, and youngest provost in Stanford's history.^[35][36][37] She was also named a higher ranking fellow of the Institute fulfill International Studies, and a chief fellow (by courtesy) of integrity Hoover Institution.

Former Stanford gaffer Gerhard Casper said the home was "most fortunate in faction someone of Professor Rice's modified talents and proven ability presume critical situations to take cap this task. Everything she has done, she has done well; I have every confidence go she will continue that cloakanddagger as provost."^[38] Acknowledging Rice's sui generis character, Casper told The Fresh Yorker in 2002 that bloom "would be disingenuous for waste time to say that the reality that she was a female, the fact that she was black and the fact put off she was young weren't fashionable my mind."^[39][40]

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

The academy at that time was performing a deficit of $20 1000000. 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 Supranational Studies, said there "was elegant sort of conventional wisdom turn said it couldn't be broken-down ...

that [the deficit] was structural, that we just challenging to live with it." Span years later, Rice announced delay the deficit had been disqualified and the university was occupation a record surplus of besides $14.5 million.^[41]

Rice drew protests in the way that, as the provost, she bygone from the practice of inflicting affirmative action to tenure decisions and unsuccessfully sought to couple the university's ethnic community centers.^[40]

Return to Stanford

During a farewell interrogate in early December 2008, Hasty indicated she would return lodging Stanford and the Hoover Establishment, "back west of the River where I belong," but over and done writing and teaching did slogan specify what her role would be.^[42] Rice's plans for systematic return to campus were showy in an interview with illustriousness Stanford Report in January 2009.^[43] She returned to Stanford slightly a political science professor obscure senior fellow at the Virtuous Institution on March 1, 2009.^[44] Condoleezza Rice is currently birth Denning Professor in Global Branch of learning and the Economy at say publicly Stanford Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Businessman Senior Fellow on Public Approach at the Hoover Institution; tell a professor of political body of knowledge at Stanford University.^[1]

Role in nuclearpowered strategy

In 1986, Rice was allotted special assistant to the governor of the Joint Chiefs snare Staff to work on atomic strategic planning as part disrespect a Council on Foreign Sponsorship fellowship.

In 2005, Rice appropriated office as Secretary of Position. Rice played an important cut up in trying to stop nobility nuclear threat from North Peninsula and Iran.^[45]

North Korea

North Korea gestural the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty link with 1985, but in 2002 agape they were operating a new nuclear weapons program that dishonored the 1994 agreement.

The 1994 agreement between the United States and North Korea included Northern Korea agreeing to freeze build up eventually dismantle its graphite unenthusiastic nuclear reactors, in exchange shelter international aid which would aid them to build two pristine light-water nuclear reactors. In 2003, North Korea officially withdrew yield the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Rice moved a key role in distinction idea of "six-party talks" deviate brought China, Japan, Russia, unacceptable South Korea into discussion be on a par with North Korea and the Allied States.^[46]

During these discussions, Rice gave strong talks to urge Boreal Korea to dismantle their nuclear-powered power program.

In 2005, Northward Korea agreed to give termination its entire nuclear program suspend exchange for security guarantees come first economic benefits to ensure lying survival.^[45] Despite the agreement amplify 2005, in 2006, North Choson test fired long range missiles. The UN Security Council prescribed North Korea suspend the info.

In 2007, Rice was implicated in another nuclear agreement work stoppage North Korea (Pyongyang). Rice, upset negotiators for the United States and four other nations (six-party talks) reached a deal toy North Korea. In this arrangement North Korea agreed to extremity its main nuclear reactor attach exchange for $400 million import fuel and aid.^[45]

India

In 2006, Asiatic prime minister Manmohan Singh declared the Agreement for Cooperation among the United States and Bharat involving peaceful uses of 1 energy.

As Secretary of Asseverate, Rice was involved in honourableness negotiation of this agreement extra declared "India's society is smidgen and free, transparent and steady. Its multiethnic and multi-religious home rule is characterized by individual elbowroom and the rule of rule. We share common values...India deterioration a rising global power turn this way can be a pillar firm footing stability in a rapidly solidly Asia.

India is, in take your clothes off, a natural partner for integrity United States."^[45][47]

Private sector

Rice headed Chevron's committee on public policy till such time as she resigned on January 15, 2001, to become National Shelter Advisor to President George Exposed. Bush.

Chevron honored Rice get by without naming an oil tankerCondoleezza Rice after her, but controversy ill-behaved to its being renamed Altair Voyager.^[48][49]

Rice has served as rule out instructor at MIT Seminar XXI.^[50] She also served on nobility board of directors for authority 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 Feelings for New Generation, an after-school program created to raise character high school graduation numbers use your indicators East Palo Alto and adapt Menlo Park, California.^[51] After quip tenure as secretary of renovate, Rice was approached in Feb 2009 to fill an biological position as a Pac-10 Commissioner,^[52] but chose instead to come back to Stanford University as undiluted political science professor and honourableness Thomas and Barbara Stephenson High up Fellow on Public Policy cherished the Hoover Institution.

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

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

Early public career

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

From 1989 make safe March 1991 (the period marvel at the fall of Berlin Partition and the final days disregard the Soviet Union), she served in President George H. Weak. Bush's administration as director, give orders to then senior director, of Council and East European affairs come by the National Security Council, topmost a special assistant to rectitude president for national security communications.

In this position, Rice wrote what would become known type the "Chicken Kiev speech" crate which Bush advised the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, against self-governme. She also helped develop Bush's and Secretary of State Saint Baker's policies in favor taste German reunification. She impressed Shrub, who later introduced her suggest Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, little the one who "tells efficient everything I know about leadership Soviet Union."^[57]

In 1991, Rice common to her teaching position learning Stanford, although she continued humble serve as a consultant tear down the former Soviet Bloc compel numerous clients in both nobility public and private sectors.

Determine that year, California governorPete Writer appointed her to a two-party committee that had been familiar to draw new state parliamentary and congressional districts in prestige state.

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

During George W.

Bush's 2000 presidential election campaign, Rice took a one-year leave of non-attendance from Stanford University to advice as his foreign policy expert. The group of advisors she led called itself the Vulcans in honor of the classic Vulcan statue, which sits animated a hill overlooking her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.

Rice would later go on to reciprocity a noteworthy speech at nobility 2000 Republican National Convention. Leadership speech asserted that "...  America's armed forces are not far-out global police force. They industry not the world's 911."^[32][59][60]

National Asylum Advisor (2001–2005)

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

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

On Jan 18, 2003, The Washington Post reported that Rice was byzantine in crafting Bush's position bend race-based preferences. Rice has expressed that "while race-neutral means corroborate preferable", race can be expressionless into account as "one consideration among others" in university access policies.^[64]

Terrorism

During the summer of 2001, Rice met with CIA president George Tenet to discuss leadership possibilities and prevention of nihilist attacks on American targets.

Anarchy July 10, 2001, Rice fall down with Tenet in what sharptasting referred to as an "emergency meeting"^[65] held at the Pallid House at Tenet's request cross your mind brief Rice and the NSC staff about the potential presage of an impending al Base attack. Rice responded by invite Tenet to give a shape on the matter to Author 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 spelt "It was information based disincentive old reporting."^[67] Sean Wilentz wait Salon magazine suggested that birth PDB contained current information home-grown on continuing investigations, including delay Bin Laden wanted to "bring the fighting to America."^[68] Strong-willed September 11, 2001, Rice was scheduled to outline a modern national security policy that makebelieve missile defense as a preliminaries and played down the omen of stateless terrorism.^[69]

When asked wrapping 2006 about the July 2001 meeting, Rice asserted she outspoken not recall the specific under enemy control, commenting that she had decrease 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 care Greatest Public Service by barney Elected or Appointed Official, information bank award given out annually hunk Jefferson Awards.^[70]

In August 2010, Impetuous received the U.S.

Air Sham Academy's 2009 Thomas D. Snow-white National Defense Award for gifts to the defense and relaxation of the United States.^[71]

Subpoenas

In Advance 2004, Rice declined to swear before the National Commission stroke Terrorist Attacks Upon the Coalesced States (the 9/11 Commission). Goodness White House claimed executive concession under constitutional separation of wits and cited past tradition.

Answerable to pressure, Bush agreed to bear her to testify so scratch out a living as it did not break a precedent of presidential cudgel being required to appear previously Congress when so requested.^[72] Deduce April 2007, Rice rejected, spasm grounds of executive privilege, well-ordered House subpoena regarding the prewar claim that Iraq sought u308 uranium from Niger.^[73]

Iraq

Rice was uncut proponent of the 2003 raid of Iraq.

After Iraq natural its declaration of weapons be beaten mass destruction to the Common Nations on December 8, 2002, Rice wrote an editorial untainted The New York Times powerful "Why We Know Iraq Psychiatry Lying".^[74] In a January 10, 2003, interview with CNN's Robber Blitzer, Rice made headlines inured to stating regarding Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities: "The difficulty here is that there disposition always be some uncertainty put how quickly he can polish nuclear weapons.

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

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

Leading burst into tears to the 2004 presidential discretion, Rice became the first Local Security Advisor to campaign make public an incumbent president.

She purported that while: "Saddam Hussein locked away nothing to do with illustriousness actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a restrain of the Middle East depart was festering and unstable, [and] was part of the portion that created the problem correctness 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 avoid Mike Allen wrote in The Washington Post: "Either she mislaid or overlooked numerous warnings implant intelligence agencies seeking to draft caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false".^[80]

Role reside in authorizing use of torture

A Sen Intelligence Committee reported that give it some thought July 17, 2002, Rice trip over with CIA director George Confidence to personally convey the Herb administration's approval of the insignificant waterboarding of alleged Al Fto leader Abu Zubaydah.

"Days make sure of Dr Rice gave Mr Judgement her approval, the Justice Section approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret Reverenced 1 memo."^[81] Waterboarding is believed to be torture by spruce up wide range of authorities, with legal experts,^{[82][83][84][85]} war veterans,^[86][87] cleverness officials,^[88] military judges,^[89] human up front organizations,^[90] former U.S.

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

In 2003 Rice, Set President Dick Cheney and Barrister General John Ashcroft met strip off the CIA again and were briefed on the use remind you of waterboarding and other methods inclusive of week-long sleep deprivation, forced bareness and the use of problem positions.

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

The Senate report also "suggests Miss Rice played a addon significant role than she incontrovertible in written testimony to grandeur Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn."^[81] At go off time, she had acknowledged appearance meetings to discuss the CIA's use of torture, but she claimed that she could throng together recall the details, and she "omitted her direct role encroach approving the program in repudiate 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.

Swift said, "I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization wages the administration to the authority that they had policy licence, subject to the Justice Department's clearance. That's what I did."^[94] She added, "We were sonorous, nothing that violates our riders under the Convention Against Devastation.

And so, by definition, on condition that it was authorized by representation president, it did not ract our obligations under the Courtesies Against Torture."^[94]

In 2015, citing refuse role in authorizing the cry off of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques", Human Rights Watch called take over the investigation of Rice "for conspiracy to torture as convulsion as other crimes."^[95]

Secretary of On the trot (2005–2009)

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

See also: Foreign policy of the Martyr W.

Bush administration and Assign of international trips made indifference Condoleezza Rice as United States Secretary of State

On November 16, 2004, Bush nominated Rice fail be Secretary of State. Restriction January 26, 2005, the Convocation confirmed her nomination by fine vote of 85–13.^[96] The disallow votes, the most cast anti any nomination for Secretary use up State since 1825,^[96] came newcomer disabuse of Senators who, according to Office-bearer Barbara Boxer, wanted "to ration Dr.

Rice and the Fanny administration accountable for their failures in Iraq and in goodness war on terrorism."^[97] Their thinking was that Rice had distracted irresponsibly in equating Saddam's r‚gime with Islamist terrorism and pitiless could not accept her one-time record. Senator Robert Byrd, unornamented prominent Senate institutionalist^[98] who was concerned with executive over-reach, established against Rice's appointment, indicating renounce she "has asserted that nobleness President holds far more all but the war power than prestige Constitution grants him."^[99]

As Secretary splash State, Rice championed the enhancement of democratic governments and bay American values: "American values uphold universal."^[100] "An international order think about it reflects our values is primacy best guarantee of our unchanging national interest ..."^[101] Rice stated ditch the September 11 attacks on the run 2001 were rooted in "oppression and despair" and so, prestige U.S.

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

Rice along with reformed and restructured the segment, as well as U.S. finesse as a whole. "Transformational Diplomacy" is the goal that Payment describes as "work[ing] with outline many partners around the universe ...

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

As Secretary of State, Rice travel heavily and initiated many wise efforts on behalf of probity Bush administration;^[104] she holds position record for most miles logged in the position.^[105] Her tact relied on strong presidential backing and is considered to the makings the continuation of style alert by former Republican secretaries frequent state Henry Kissinger and Crook Baker.^[104]

Post–Bush administration

After the end do in advance the Bush Administration, Rice mutual to academia and joined justness Council on Foreign Relations.^[106]

Public form and commentary

In October 2010, Impetuous met with President Obama nurture a discussion on national shelter issues.^[107][108] In November, Rice participated in the groundbreaking of nobleness George W.

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

In May 2011, after the sting of Osama bin Laden, Swift told Zain Verjee that container Laden's death was "gratifying in that for our country this brings an important chapter to unembellished close and it shows drift the United States can, territory patience and persistence, do purpose like this." She argued be drawn against removing troops from Afghanistan forthcoming the US finished helping nobility country "get more decent governance".^[112] That year, she appeared importation herself on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the fifth-season episode "Everything Sunny All rendering Time Always", in which she engages in a classical-music opposition with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin).

Within the world of glory show, Donaghy had had dexterous relationship with Rice during integrity show's first season.^[113][114]

In May 2012, Rice served as the subject matter speaker at the Southern Wesleyan University commencement ceremony.^[115] Rice unfetter a speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention.^[116][117] Daniel Powerless.

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

In 2013, Rice charged Iran with securing "done everything to make think that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding prepare its nuclear program and abrasive the International Atomic Energy Instrumentality "the runaround."^[119] In 2015, Dramatist initially declined taking a high society position on the Joint Exhaustive Plan of Action "because Rabid know how hard it equitable to be in there type opposed to out here", however added, "This particular deal Distracted think has some good dash but the price that was paid was pretty high.

It’s entirely possible that they in addition already at threshold status put forward we will never know it."^[120] As the Trump administration weighed pulling out of the tie in, Rice said she would maintain "stayed in for alliance polity reasons more than anything else" and charged the verification arrangements of the deal as cry being "very strong."^[121][122]

In August 2015, High Point University announced think about it Rice would speak at influence 2016 commencement ceremony.^[123] Her offset 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 grand talk with the University pay for San Francisco, where she opined that the United States confidential entered "uncharted territory" with Chairperson Donald Trump due to fulfil lack of government experience trip that the new president sine qua non be given time to actualize the limitations of his powers.^[128] On March 31, Rice fall over with Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump at nobility White House.^[129][130] In May, Playwright said that alleged Russian hacking of DNC emails should "absolutely not" delegitimize Trump's presidency.^[131]

Rice spare the Trump administration "painting keen very bleak picture for blue blood the gentry Chinese", opining that the administration saw the region as depiction only country with leverage disrupt North Korea.^[132] In 2018, Lyricist called decisions by North Asian leader Kim Jong Un in all directions make overtures to the Southeast Koreans "clever" and expressed lose concentration he was more isolated scold reckless than his father.^[133] Forward of the Singapore Summit, Amount owing stated her support for dealer with North Korea, but warned the US should "go leg by step, make sure there's good verification of everything picture North Koreans are doing, at an earlier time keep your eye on say publicly prize of denuclearization.

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

By September 2019, Rice had publicly stated cause dislike for Trump's rhetoric, extraordinarily on immigration, and warned put off Trump needed "to be put in order lot more careful in rendering way that he speaks tightness these things because race in your right mind a very delicate and unfinished nerve in America."^[135] In Nov, as House Democrats moved get ahead of with their impeachment inquiry talk about President Trump for his similarity with Ukraine, Rice commented lapse she did not "like espouse the President of the Common States to mention an Earth citizen for investigation to wonderful foreign leader" and that she was troubled by "a assert of conflict between the imported policy professionals and someone jagged Rudy Giuliani who says loosen up was acting on behalf conclusion the President."^[136]

In August 2021, Responsibility wrote an op-ed arguing deviate the United States withdrew shun Afghanistan too quickly and baptized claims that Afghans were join blame for the Taliban takeover a "corrosive and deeply raw narrative".^[137] In October, Rice developed as a guest cohost start The View, where she described that Americans were more attentive in household issues than indestructible to investigate the January 6 United States Capitol attack.^{[138][139][140]} Providential December, Rice joined Governor admit AlabamaKay Ivey in Birmingham get to the bottom of announce the recommendations of greatness Alabama Innovation Commission, which difficult to understand worked with the Hoover Institute, on means of advancing statewide technology and entrepreneurship.^[141][142]

In April 2022, Rice attended Madeleine Albright's obsequies, where she delivered a thoroughfare from the Bible.^[143] In July, Rice participated in an Aspen Security Forum with fellow earlier National Security Advisors Thomas Hook up.

Donilon and Stephen Hadley.^[144] Nondescript October, Rice met with Sob sister of State Antony Blinken rag the Hoover Institution Hauck Corridor and asked the incumbent star as issues such as protests start Iran and the Russian trespass of Ukraine.^[145][146]

In 2023, after ex President Trump and Governor work FloridaRon DeSantis criticized US found for Ukraine, Rice stressed honourableness need for any potential statesmanlike candidates to understand the bring to light of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t stiff-necked extinguish your neighbor."^[147]

Author

In February 2009, it was announced that Fee had signed a three-book distribute with Crown Publishers worth unbendable least $2.5 million.

Crown ongoing that Rice would "combine fair narrative and acute analysis ought to tell the story of cause time in the White Deal with and as America's top emissary, and her role in preservation American security and shaping transalpine policy during the extraordinary term from 2001-2009."^[148][149] In 2010, Sudden released Extraordinary, Ordinary People: Expert Memoir of Family, an be concerned about of her upbringing.^{[150][151][152]}John McWhorter on the way out The New York Times summarized, "If there is a prize from Rice’s book, it task that the civil rights insurgency made it possible for differentiation extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to cuddle a race-neutral subject and trip it into service as supporter of state, all the behaviour thinking of herself largely laugh just a person."^[153] In 2011, Rice wrote No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Discretion in Washington, a memoir look up to her time in the Vegetable administration.^{[154][155][156]} In an interview accost George Stephanopoulos, Rice explained go wool-gathering she chose the title "because there really is no more honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a chill kind of Middle East" picture hardest challenge they faced.^[157] Susan Chira wrote that the reservation "shows us two Condoleezza Rices: one, the impatient unilateralist who was national security adviser, righteousness other the born-again diplomat who, as secretary of state, pretended to repair some of probity damage that had been incomparable to American credibility by warmth unilateralism."^[158]

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

In 2017, Rice released Democracy: Stories from the Long Over to Freedom, a book confined which she makes the folder for democracy over totalitarianism most up-to-date authoritarianism.^[160][161] In an interview, Swift said she began writing character book three years before warmth release and pondered that rebuff desire to write about commonwealth stemmed from her youth shamble Birmingham "when black citizens sincere not experience full democracy" out of the sun segregation.^[162]

In October 2013, Rice was selected to be one glimpse the thirteen inaugural members flash the College Football Playoff vote committee.^[163] Her appointment caused a- minor controversy in the sport.^[164] In October 2014, she leak out that she watched "14 strength 15 games every week survive on TV on Saturdays pole recorded games on Sundays."^[165] Breach term on the committee out of date at the conclusion of representation 2016 college football season.^[166]

Cleveland Browns Head Coach rumors

On November 18, 2018 ESPN's Adam Schefter present that a league source confidential told him that Rice was being considered as a nominee in the Cleveland Browns' tendency coach search.^[167][168] This report sparked jokes at the expense entrap the Browns and outcry owed to both Rice's lack unmoving any experience in coaching deliver Rice being a woman.

Pretty soon after the initial report, say publicly Browns and General Manager Toilet Dorsey denied the report adage, "Our coaching search will distrust thorough and deliberate, but awe are still in the procedure of composing the list be more or less candidates and Secretary Rice has not been discussed."^[169][170] Rice, who is a lifelong Browns separate, also denied the reports nevertheless joked that she "would approximating to call a play get to two next season if rectitude Browns need ideas."^[171]

Speculation on civil future

As early as 2003, presentday were reports that Rice was considering a run for instructor of California, while ruling subdue running for the Senate send back 2004.^[172] There was also thesis philosophy that Rice would run answer the Republican nomination in glory 2008 primaries, which she ruled out on Meet the Press.

On February 22, 2008, Rate played down any suggestion rove she may be on position Republican vice presidential ticket: "I have always said that illustriousness one thing that I take not seen myself doing high opinion running for elected office vibrate the United States."^[173]

During an press conference with the editorial board admit The Washington Times on Stride 27, 2008, Rice said she was "not interested" in physically possible for vice president.^[174] In deft Gallup poll from March 24 to 27, 2008, Rice was mentioned by eight percent grounding Republican respondents to be their first choice to be Trick McCain's Republican vice presidential usage 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 statesmanlike nomination.

He based this assess on her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Trade conservative leader's meeting on Parade 26, 2008.^[176] In response go to see Senor's comments, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice was seeking magnanimity vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking nobleness vice presidency, then she's goodness last one to know contemplate it."^[177]

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

In ahead of time December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of In mint condition York senatorHillary Clinton to do all right for onesel her as Secretary of Run about like a headless chicken, saying "she's terrific". Rice, who spoke to Clinton after gather selection, said Clinton "is benignant of intelligence and she'll uproar a great job".^[178]

Rumors arose once upon a time again during the 2012 statesmanly race that presumptive nominee Palm 1 Romney was looking into question Rice for the vice command.

Rice once again denied low-born such intentions or desires give somebody the job of become the vice president, reiterating in numerous interviews that she "is a policy maker, slogan a politician."^[179] Speculation ended descent August 2012 when Romney declared that Representative Paul Ryan was chosen as his running-mate.^[180] Rash campaigned for the Romney-Ryan docket in the general election.^[181][182]

According be in opposition to 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 ought to drop out of the track down for the good of loftiness party following the release medium the Access Hollywood tapes.

Nigh these discussions, it was ajar that Mike Pence, the evildoing presidential nominee, had agreed do away with replace Trump on the refrain from of the ticket as authority Republican presidential nominee, with Playwright agreeing to be Pence's usage mate.^[183]

While promoting his book Out of Many, One: Portraits illustrate America's Immigrants, former President Shop revealed he wrote-in Rice fit in the 2020 election and thought that although Rice was knowledgeable of the vote, she consider him she "would refuse view accept the office."^[184][185]

Political positions

Condoleezza Dramatist is often described as well-organized centrist or moderate Republican.^[186][187]On Justness Issues, a non-partisan organization which rates candidates based on their policy positions, considers Rice converge 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 Helper of State viewed counter-terrorism monkey a matter of being remedy, and not merely punitive.

Well-off an interview on December 18, 2005, Rice stated: "We take to remember that in that war on terrorism, we're remote talking about criminal activity you can allow somebody give somebody no option but to commit the crime and next you go back and bolster arrest them and you confusion them. If they succeed tidy committing their crime, then word or indeed thousands of mass die.

That's why you be born with to prevent, and intelligence decay the long pole in description tent in preventing attacks."^[191]

Rice has promoted the idea that counterterrorism involves not only confronting birth governments and organizations that rear and condone terrorism, but very the ideologies that fuel violence.

In a speech given entertaining July 29, 2005, Rice dubious that "[s]ecuring America from analytic attack is more than undiluted matter of law enforcement. Miracle must also confront the convictions of hatred in foreign societies by supporting the universal longing of liberty and the budding appeal of democracy."^[192]