Condoleeza Rice

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This paper explains that Condoleeza Rice comes from a family whose heritage was education; great-grandparents on both sides of her family were "house slaves", which allowed them to become literate. The author points out that Rice had already worked in George Bush, Senior's administration; she met George W. Bush II, then the governor of Texas, in 1995, and they immediately became friends as Bush respected her knowledge regarding foreign policy and her love of sports. The paper contends Rice's important political assets are her extensive education and knowledge in her field, which is both academic and rooted in the real world, and her ability to formulate opinion based on changing circumstances.

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"While at Stanford, Rice met a man who would significantly influence her career: Brent Scowcroft, who became President George Bush's National Security Advisor in 1989. Once he had that position, he contacted Rice and asked her to take a leave of absence from Stanford so she could work with him, which she did for two years. Her knowledge as an expert on the U.S.S.R. was valued by the first Bush administration. She ended up serving under Scowcroft and on the National Security Council, where her expertise was valued. It was a time of great change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet: Germany reunified, Baltic states separated from the U.S.S.R., and the U.S.S.R. itself was on borrowed time. Rice understood the paradox and the dangers of a great power on the verge of collapse."

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