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Condoleezza Rice
b. 1954
American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)
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Biography
Condoleezza "Condi" Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has served as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. A member of the Republican Party, Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch. At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State, Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States to be in the presidential line of succession.
Timeline
The story of Condoleezza Rice, told in moments.
Earns her PhD in political science from the University of Denver at 26. Her dissertation focused on Czech military politics. She joins the Stanford faculty that same year.
Becomes the Soviet affairs advisor on the National Security Council under George H.W. Bush. She's 34. She helps manage the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Testifies before the 9/11 Commission as National Security Advisor. She's questioned for hours about a Presidential Daily Brief titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." from August 2001.
Sworn in as the 66th Secretary of State. First Black woman in the role. She served through the Iraq War surge, the Israel-Lebanon conflict, and the rise of Iran's nuclear program.
In Their Own Words (20)
I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really, really destroying his own country, economically, politically.
Congressional hearing, February 7, 2007., 2007
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 11, 2007., 2007
The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenance a return to the status quo ante. This resolution does that. And now we're going to see who is for peace and who isn't.
Press Briefing, August 6, 2006., 2006
...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque.
Interview on ABC This Week, July 16, 2006., 2006
Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.
Secretary of State confirmation hearing, January 19, 2005., 2005
Artifacts (15)
Esbossos per a caricatures de personatges de la política internacional publicats a la premsa
Guillén, 1947-
Summer: Planting Rice (Natsu: taue no zu), No. 2 from the series "The Four Seasons of Farmers (Shiki no hyakusho)"
Torii Kiyomasu II
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