Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story (34 page)

“See George. See George Learn Foreign Policy,”
Newsweek,
June 18, 2001

“Sharon smitten with Rice,”
Denver Post
, February 5, 2001

“Soviets Face Hard Choices in Arms Control, Rice Says,” Stanford University News Service, December 2, 1983

“Stanford Cuts Budget Third Straight Year,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 11, 1993

“Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice Appointed Hoover Senior Fellow,”
Hoover Institution Newsletter
, Summer 1999

Stanford University
Campus Report
, April 1, 1992

Stanford University News Service press release, December 2, 1983

Stanford University News Service press release, June 18, 1984

Stanford University News Service press release, May 10, 1996

“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

“State Black Codes,” National Parks Service web site (
www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm
)

“Status of Women in International Affairs Professions, The,” Women’s Foreign Policy Group web site (
wfpg.org
)

“Steely Southerner, A,”
Newsweek
, August 6, 2001

“Stillman College: A Glance at the Past,” Stillman College Archives, 1974

“Take Small Classes, Experiment, College Frosh Told,” Stanford News Service bulletin, October 1993

“Testimony of Condoleezza Rice Before 9/11 Commission,”
New York Times
, April 8, 2004, transcript posted on
nytimes.com
, (
www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/politics/08RICE-TEXT.html?ex=1102050000&en=787702147 cceca23&ei=5070
)

“Thanksgiving Surprise Raises Stakes for Bush,”
Seattle Times
, November 29, 2003

“There IS a Doctor in the House,”
In the Black
, Summer 2001

“Timeline of the Iraq Uranium Allegations,” ABC News online, (
abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=79455
)

Title 5 U.S. Code 3331, Oath of Office, U.S. Code as of 01/23/01

“To Europeans, Rice Brings Mitigated Hope of Harmony,”
New York Times
, November 20, 2004

“Transform America, One by One,” editorial by Condoleezza Rice,
Birmingham News
, May 22, 1994

University of Denver
Clarion
, October 9, 1972

University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies brochure

“Uphill Battle to Improve Status of Women on the Faculty,” Stanford University News Service press release, March 12, 1997

“U.S. Intelligence and the End of the Cold War,” a speech given by George Bush at Texas A&M on November 19, 1999

“Uterine Fibroid Surgery; Rice to Undergo Procedure,”
Newsday
, November 19, 2004

“Velvet-glove Forcefulness,”
Stanford Report
, June 9, 1999

Washington’s Famous Atlanta Address of 1895, as posted on the Booker T. Washington National Monument web site (
nps.gov/bowa/tuskin.html
)

“Welcome Back, Professor Rice,” REES Center for Russian & East European Studies Newsletter, Spring 1991

“West Wing Story: America’s Favorite Bushie,”
Newsweek,
August 1, 2001

“The White House Blinks,”
Buffalo News
, March 31, 2004

“Why We Know Iraq Is Lying,”
New York Times
, January 23, 2003

“The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women,”
Forbes
, August 20, 2004, (
www.forbes.com/2004/08/18/04powomland.html
)

BOOKS

Blackman, Ann
, Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright
(New York: Scribners, 1998)

Bush, George,
All the Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings
(New York: Scribners, 1999)

Bush, George and Brent Scowcroft,
A World Transformed
(New York: Knopf, 1998)

Clarke, Richard A.,
Against All Enemies
(New York: Free Press, 2004)

Dobbs, Michael,
Madeleine Albright: Twentieth Century Odyssey
(New York: Holt, 1999)

Eskew, Glenn T.,
But for Birmingham
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Kean, Thomas H. and Lee H. Hamilton,
The 9/11 Report
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, August 2004)

Kegley, Charles W. and Eugene Wittkopf,
American Foreign Policy
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996)

Montview Centennial Book Committee,
The Spirit of Montview: 1902-2002
, 2001

Morgenthau, Hans,
Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Peace and Power
(New York: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1985)

Parmet, Herbert S.,
George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee
(New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2001)

Prados, John,
Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush
(New York: Morrow, 1991)

Rice, Condoleezza,
The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)

Rosenthal, Joel H.,
Righteous Realists
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991)

Rotundo, Anthony E.,
American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
(New York: Basic Books, 1994)

White, Deborah Gray,
Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South
(New York: Norton, 1999)

Zelikow, Philip and Condoleezza Rice,
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997)

INTERVIEWS

George Barth
Paul Brest
George Brinkley
Albert Cannella
Deborah Carson
Margaret Cheatham
Jim Copland
Jack Davis
John Ferejohn
Karen Feste
Jason Galie
Dmitri Gerasamenko
Rev. Richard Hutchison
Rev. William Jones
Pam King
Robby Laitos
Gail Lapidus
Mark Wateska
Sr. Sylvia Pautler
John Raisian
Clara Bailey Rice
Betty Richardson
Therese Saracino
Juliemma Smith
Darcy Taylor
Margaret and Russ Wehner

NOTES

vi
“Henry, sorry to tell you this . . .”
“The Status of Women in International Affairs Professions,” Women’s Foreign Policy Group web site (
wfpg.org
)

PRELUDE

1
“education evangelists”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

1
“Daddy, I’m barred out of there now . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?”
George
magazine, June 2000

2
“rock-star big . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

3
“She is, all agree, an immensely appealing person . . .”
Ibid.

3
“Condi is one of those happy-go-lucky kinds of people . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

3
“I’m a really religious person . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine
, February 2002

3
“I think I’m above average . . .”
Ibid.

One: COACHING THE CANDIDATE

5
“The presidency is not just . . .”
“Condi Rice Can’t Lose,”
Time,
September 20, 1999

6
“Here was this slip of a girl . . .”
“Condoleezza Rice: George W.’s Realist,”
World Policy Journal
, Winter 1999

6
“One of my first phone calls . . .”
Ibid.

For further information on the book titles, please see the Sources section on page 245.

7
“tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union”
“Rice: A Russophile with Bush’s Ear,” MSNBC web site (
www.msnbc.com
)

7
“Some of the most dramatic and epochal events . . .” A World Transformed,
by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft

8
“Governor Bush was very impressed”
“Bush’s Foreign Policy Tutor,”
The New York Times
, June 16, 2000

8
“He’s really smart—and he’s also disciplined . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine
, February 2002

9
“I don’t get seasick . . .”
“Bush’s Secret Weapon,”
Salon.com
, March 20, 2000 (
www.salon.com
)

9
“What about relations with Russia . . .”
Ibid.

10
“When we talked about it . . .”
Interview with Deborah Carson

10
“I like to be around her . . .”
“Bush’s Foreign Policy Tutor,”
The New York Times
, June 16, 2000

11
“a close confidant . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

11
“I’ve respected him from the first time we talked . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine
, February 2002

11
“I grew up right there in Birmingham with Vulcan . . .”
“Bush’s ‘Vulcans’ Iron Out Foreign Policy,”
Birmingham News
, June 30, 2000

12
“I don’t try to do it all myself . . .”
Ibid.

12
“can explain to me foreign policy matters . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

12
“She has an extraordinary ability to be clear,”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

12
“One of the things that is appealing . . .”
Ibid.

12
“She is a novel commodity . . .”
“People in the News Profile: Condoleezza Rice,”
CNN.com
web site (
www.cnn.com/CNN/programs/people/shows/rice/profile.html
)

13
“I may not be able to tell you exactly . . .”
“Condoleezza Rice: George W.’s Realist,”
World Policy Journal
, Winter 1999

13
“As an executive . . .”
“Academics Start to Line up Behind Presidential Candidates,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, May 28, 1999

14
“Governor Bush has not spent . . .”
“Condi Rice Can’t Lose,”
Time
, September 20, 1999

14
“I’ve been pressed to understand . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

15
“America must build effective missile defenses . . .”
“New Leadership on National Security,” speech by George W. Bush, posted on the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation web site May 23, 2000 (
nuclearfiles.org/docs/2000/0523newleadershipbush.html
)

16
“He’s always been surrounded by strong, smart women . . .”
“Bush Campaign Turns to Big Gun—His Mom Barbara Bush Leads W is for Women Tour,”
Baltimore Sun
, October 20, 2000

17
“George W. Bush . . .”
Rice’s Speech at the Republican National Convention, August 1, 2000

17
“Anybody who really knows me . . .”
“Condoleezza Rice Interview,”
About.com
web site (
uspolitics.about.com
)

17
“I actually think . . .”
“Dream Job for Rice: N.F.L. Commissioner,”
The New York Times
, April 17, 2002

18
“‘You make me sound like a tyrant!’ . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

18
“She’s got this quiet demeanor . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

18
“both very upbeat and very down to business . . .”
Interview with Paul Brest

19
“I am a very deeply religious person . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,
Vogue,
October 2001

19
“Dr. Rice is not only . . .”
“Rice called a Good Fit for Foreign Policy Post,”
USATODAY.com
website, December 18, 2000 (
www.usatoday.com
)

20
“This is an extraordinary time . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

20
“I, Condoleezza . . .”
Title 5 U.S. Code 3331, Oath of Office, U.S. Code as of 01/23/01

21
“Advisors such as Rice and Kissinger . . .”
“How Many Heads Does the Prime Minister Have?”
New Presence: The Prague Journal of Central European Affairs
, Spring 2002

21
“I will remember the sound advice . . .” All the Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings,
by George Bush

22
“one of the single most important positions . . .” Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush,
by John Prados