George and Condi
In November of 2004, President George W. Bush made history when he named Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State in his Cabinet. Dr. Rice was the first African-American woman to hold the post, as well as the second African American (after Colin Powell), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright) to hold the job. Rice had previously been President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position.
Dr. Rice had an impressive resume in the national security field. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 32 year old Dr. Rice served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From 1989 through March 1991 she served in President George H.W. Bush's administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. She helped develop Bush's policies in favor of German reunification. The first President Bush introduced her to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as the one who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." In 1991, Rice returned to her teaching position at Stanford University, but she continued to serve as a consultant on the former Soviet Bloc. In 1997, she sat on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military.
During President George W. Bush's 2000 presidential election campaign, Rice took a one-year leave of absence from Stanford University to help work as his foreign policy advisor. The group of advisors she led called itself The Vulcans, not because of anything Trekky, but in reference to the Vulcan statue that sits on a hill overlooking her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
In a moment of foreboding, Rice gave a noteworthy speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention. The speech asserted that "...America's armed forces are not a global police force. They are not the world's 911."
Rice became Bush's National Security Advisor and on January 26, 2005, the Senate confirmed her nomination as Secretary of State by a vote of 85–13. She would hold that position for the remainder of the Bush administration.
In the lead-up to the 2008 election, Republican strategist Dan Senor said on ABC's This Week on April 6, 2008, that "Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for" the vice presidential nomination. In support of this assessment, he cited her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform conservative leader's meeting on March 26, 2008. In response to this, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice is seeking the vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking the vice presidency, then she's the last one to know about it." I suspect that a McCain-Rice ticket would have done better than a McCain-Palin ticket. I suspect that Dr. Rice would have had a better understanding of the Bush Doctrine.
Dr. Rice had an impressive resume in the national security field. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a 32 year old Dr. Rice served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. From 1989 through March 1991 she served in President George H.W. Bush's administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. She helped develop Bush's policies in favor of German reunification. The first President Bush introduced her to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as the one who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." In 1991, Rice returned to her teaching position at Stanford University, but she continued to serve as a consultant on the former Soviet Bloc. In 1997, she sat on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender-Integrated Training in the Military.
During President George W. Bush's 2000 presidential election campaign, Rice took a one-year leave of absence from Stanford University to help work as his foreign policy advisor. The group of advisors she led called itself The Vulcans, not because of anything Trekky, but in reference to the Vulcan statue that sits on a hill overlooking her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama.
In a moment of foreboding, Rice gave a noteworthy speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention. The speech asserted that "...America's armed forces are not a global police force. They are not the world's 911."
Rice became Bush's National Security Advisor and on January 26, 2005, the Senate confirmed her nomination as Secretary of State by a vote of 85–13. She would hold that position for the remainder of the Bush administration.
In the lead-up to the 2008 election, Republican strategist Dan Senor said on ABC's This Week on April 6, 2008, that "Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for" the vice presidential nomination. In support of this assessment, he cited her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform conservative leader's meeting on March 26, 2008. In response to this, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice is seeking the vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking the vice presidency, then she's the last one to know about it." I suspect that a McCain-Rice ticket would have done better than a McCain-Palin ticket. I suspect that Dr. Rice would have had a better understanding of the Bush Doctrine.