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    Condoleezza Rice

    United States Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009

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  1. Condoleezza Rice. Condoleezza Rice ( / ˌkɒndəˈliːzə / KON-də-LEE-zə; born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 ...

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    Condoleezza Rice is the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University. In 2001, Rice was appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush, becoming the first African American woman (and woman) to hold the post, and went on to become the first Black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

    Rice was born on November 14, 1954, in Birmingham, Alabama. The only child of a Presbyterian minister and a teacher, Rice grew up surrounded by racism in the segregated South. She earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Denver in 1974, her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975, and her Ph.D. from the Un...

    In the mid-1980s, Rice spent a period in Washington, D.C., working as an international affairs fellow attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1989, she became director of Soviet and East European affairs with the National Security Council, and special assistant to President George H.W. Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Unionand German reu...

    Rice's books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army(1984).

    In August 2012, Rice and South Carolina businesswoman Darla Moore became the first women to (simultaneously) become members of the Augusta National Golf Club, located in Augusta, Georgia. The event was monumental: The Augusta National Golf Club, which opened in 1933, had infamously been known for its all-male membership and repeated failure to admi...

  2. Condoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her mother worked as a teacher and her father as a guidance counselor. At an early age, Rice was drawn to music. She learned how to play the piano and entered college as a music major. However, after taking a course in international politics, she changed her career aspirations.

  3. Mar 29, 2024 · Afghanistan War. Iraq War. Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) American educator and politician, who served as national security adviser (2001–05) and secretary of state (2005–09) to U.S. Pres. George W. Bush. At age 15 Rice entered the University of Denver. Although she had earlier considered a career as a ...

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  4. Dec 19, 2019 · Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is an American diplomat, political scientist, and educator, who served as United States National Security Adviser and later as Secretary of State in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first woman and first Black woman to hold the post of national security adviser, and the first ...

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  6. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm.

  7. This interview focuses on Condoleezza Rice’s years as secretary of state. She begins by discussing how long she wanted to stay in the George W. Bush administration after four years and her reasons for staying; the foreign policy agenda for the next term, such as Europe, Iran, and Iraq; Brent Scowcroft’s impact on her; the 2004 presidential election; and her confirmation as secretary of state.

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