Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story (36 page)

73
“pretty good but not great . . . Technically, I can play most anything . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine,
February 2002

73
“I went on a mad search for a major . . .”
Ibid.

74
“squishy”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

74
“It just clicked . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine,
February 2002

74
“I can still feel the strong sense I had of remorse and regret . . .”
Stanford University News Service bulletin, December 2, 1983

75
“I really adored him . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

75
“Condi is the kind of person who is very sure of herself . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?”
George
magazine, June 2000

75
“Design is a way . . .”
Interview with Darcy Taylor

75
“John Rice was friendly . . .”
Ibid.

76
“I found my passion in the study of Russia . . .”
“Mad About Music,” transcript of the WNYC radio program aired on September 7, 2001

76
“I don’t regret giving up the music career . . .”
Ibid.

76
“Korbel had a way of encouraging talented people . . .” Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey,
by Michael Dobbs

77
“Korbel was one of . . .”
Ibid.

79
“There is no doubt . . .”
Ibid.

80
“It helps to have another foreign language under your belt . . .”
Interview with Jason Galie

81
“The membership of these churches got together . . .”
Interview with Russ Wehner

81
“church members were asked to sign . . .” The Spirit of Montview: 1902-2002
, by the Montview Centennial Book Committee

81
“He got Martin Luther King . . . ”
Interview with Russ Wehner

82
“He brought an enormous . . .”
Ibid.

82
“When John came on the staff . . .” The Spirit of Montview: 1902-2002
, by the Montview Centennial Book Committee

82
“John was always forthright, honest, and challenging . . .”
Interview with Richard Hutchison

83
“She had a beautiful voice . . .”
Interview with Margaret Wehner

83
“We performed . . . the Beethoven Christ on the Mount of Olives . . .”
“Mad About Music,” transcript of the WNYC radio program aired on September 7, 2001

83
In addition to his work as a university dean . . .
“Rice Appointed to Urban Renewal Authority,”
Intermountain Jewish News
, May 26, 1978

83
“I believe that sports has a place . . .”
“Rice on Students, Tough Decisions and her Oil Tanker,”
Stanford Magazine
, May/June 1999

84
“The University of Denver . . . ”
University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies brochure

85
“Since he didn’t tell me precisely how . . .” Stanford Campus Report
, June 19, 1985

Five: THE SCHOLAR

86
“Culture is something you can adopt . . .”
“Political Punch in a Package of Charm,”
The Financial Times
, February 26, 2000

87
“I’m five-foot-eight, black and female . . .”
Ibid.

89
“Condoleezza came to Notre Dame . . .”
Interview with George Brinkley

90
“The government gathered all those it could collect . . .”
“From ‘Splendid Isolation’ to ‘Fruitful Cooperation’: The Harriman Institute in the Post-Soviet Era,”
Columbia Magazine
, Summer 1996

91
“Well, the job market’s a lot better . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine
, February 2002

91
“Most students had little background . . .”
Interview with George Brinkley

92
“He understood the dark side of Russia . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

92
“Our graduate program . . .”
Interview with George Brinkley

92
“She was one of those self-driven students . . .”
Ibid.

92
“She had some Russian . . .”
Ibid.

93
“It was clear from the beginning . . .”
Ibid.

93
“I read early on and was influenced . . .”
“Condoleezza Rice: George W.’s Realist,”
World Policy Journal
, Winter 1999

94
“Power is the control . . .” Politics Among Nations
, by Hans Morgenthau

94
“Realists insisted that the national interest could . . .” Righteous Realists
, by Joel. H. Rosenthal

95
“attracted to the Byzantine nature . . .”
Ibid.

95
“I am a realist. Power matters . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

95
“Condi came to see the cold war . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?,”
George
magazine, June 2000

95
“While she was at Notre Dame . . .”
Interview with George Brinkley

95
“She and I worked . . .”
Ibid.

96
“She partied quite a bit there . . .”
Interview with Deborah Carson

97
“You are very talented, you have to become a professor . . .”
“Josef Korbel’s Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy,”
Washington Post
, December 28, 2000

97
“Thinking broadly about the whole world . . .”
“Soviets Face Hard Choices in Arms Control, Rice Says,” Stanford University News Service, December 2, 1983

97
“I realized that I liked . . .”
Ibid.

97
“He was nothing but . . .”
Ibid.

98
“She is one of the few people . . .”
Interview with Robby Laitos

98
“That day . . .”
Ibid.

98
“I remember her mother . . .”
Ibid.

99
“Looking back, the school doesn’t seem a lot different . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

99
Josef Korbel had not always . . . Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth Century Legacy
, by Michael Dobbs

100
“He and I were close . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

101
“contributions to transatlantic relations . . .”
Naval War College announcement posted on web site (
nwc.navy.mil
)

102
“Dear American TV people . . .”
“The Partnership: A History of the
Apollo-Soyuz
Test Project,” NASA web site (
hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History
)

103
“a deliberate effort by a powerful atheistic government . . .”
“Russia’s Bold Challenge,”
Time
, January 14, 1980

103
“I remember thinking, What did you think . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

103
“I was a registered Democrat . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
The Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

104
“I admired what Lyndon Johnson did for civil rights . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?,”
George
magazine, June 2000

104
“all-over-the-map Republican . . .”
“‘Condi’ Rice: Presbyterian with faith, political mettle,”
The Presbyterian Layman
, November 22, 2000

104
“It was the constitution and foreign policy . . .”
Ibid.

104
Condi takes a ribbing . . .
“Honored to Get the Chance,”
The Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

104
“I’m in the G.O.P. for the right reasons . . .”
Ibid.

105
“Korbel liked Condi because . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

106
“research ability”
Stanford University News Service

106
“He expected a lot out of people . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

106
“He was as proud of [Madeleine] . . .” Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth Century Legacy
, by Michael Dobbs

106
“It was Josef Korbel who taught her . . .” Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright
, by Ann Blackman

106
“probably more liberal . . .”
“Josef Korbel’s Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy,”
Washington Post
, December 28, 2000

107
“Our program works best for students . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

107
“There wasn’t a lot written about the subject . . .”
“Pick for National security Adviser has DU Ties,”
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
December 17, 2000

108
“The General Staff [of the USSR] was my life . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?”
George
magazine, June 2000

108
She had estimated that there were about 5,000 . . .
Ibid.

109
“The majority of Soviets . . .”
Interview with Dmitri Gerasamenko

109
“Foreigners saw . . .”
Ibid.

109
“A black student . . .”
Ibid.

110
“a very major player. . . . She was seriously going to marry him . . .”
Interview with Deborah Carson

111
“He died of stomach cancer . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

111
On his sickbed, Korbel continued working . . . Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey
, by Michael Dobbs

111
“Because of the small . . .”
Graduate School of International Studies brochure

112
“I tell students, ‘If you don’t know what you want . . .”
Ibid.

112
“[For years] I structured my life to be a concert musician . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

112
“I think we all knew . . .”
“Adviser Condi Rice,”
Denver Post,
August 2, 2000

112
“We always thought . . .”
Interview with Karen Feste

Six: PROFESSOR RICE

113
“The understanding of arms control . . .”
“Soviets Face Hard Choices in Arms Control, Rice Says,” Stanford University News Service, December 2, 1983

114
“tells me everything . . . I hope you know a lot.”
“Rice: A Russophile with Bush’s Ear” MSNBC web site (
msnbc.com
)

114
“[The] characteristics of the Cold War . . .”
“Bush, Gorbachev Hold Malta Shipboard Summit,”
World News Digest
, December 8, 1989

116
“They didn’t need another Soviet specialist . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

116
“I think what struck people . . .” Stanford Report
, December 9, 1998

116
“She got along well with everybody . . .”
Interview with John Ferejohn

118
“It is increasingly difficult . . .” Stanford Report
, October 28, 1998

118
“orderly, post hoc recreations we teach . . .”
Ibid.

118
It’s interesting to watch students . . .”
Ibid.

118
“It is still the most . . .”
“Dean’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching, 1992-93,” Stanford University News Service, undated press release

119
“wasn’t a surprise, it was commonly known . . .”
Interview with John Ferejohn

119
“Condi heard about it . . .”
Interview with Paul Brest

119
Condi is not the first to make this analogy . . . American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era,
by E. Anthony Rotundo

120
“It was a large lecture class . . .”
Interview with anonymous

120
“Anyone who has had the good fortune . . .”
“Dean’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching, 1992-93,” Stanford University News Service

121
“I will always remember . . .”
Ibid.

121
“a marvelous facilitator . . .”
Ibid.

121
“She treated us . . .”
Ibid.

121
“for bringing enthusiasm . . .”
Stanford University News Service press release, June 18, 1984

122
“her intellect and charm—charm in the profound sense . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

123
“I was affiliated . . .”
Interview with George Brinkley

124
“ill understood . . . I found them welcoming . . .”
“The Gorbachev Era,”
The Commonwealth
, June 13, 1988

124
“I realized then . . .”
“Bush Advisor Speaks of Faith’s Deep Roots,”
Denver Post
, May 5, 2000

125
“We walked in the door . . .”
Interview with Deborah Carson

125
“They were a real couple . . .”
Ibid.

126
“The opening of the Berlin Wall was as electrifying . . .” Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft,
by Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice

Seven: BUSH I

128
“Condi was brilliant . . .”
“Is There Anything This Woman Can’t Do?”
George
magazine, June 2000

128
“All you have to do with the large, huge, and very frightening problems . . .”
Stanford University
Campus Report
, June 19, 1985