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...shared Rice's pessimism about Russia's progress in the 1990s and echoed her critique of Bill Clinton's overly "romantic" image of Boris Yeltsin as the embodiment of democratic reform. Rice even suggested in 1999 that U.S. policy should seek to "contain" and "quarantine" Russia. "The President and Condi didn't want anything to do with Russia when they came in," says a former top aide to the first President Bush. "They thought they knew who Putin was - a throwback to the old days - and they had no interest in finding out if they were right...
HAVE YOU TALKED TO BUSH SINCE HE BECAME PRESIDENT? No. But I talk regularly to [Vice President Dick] Cheney, [National Security Adviser Condi] Rice and [White House Counsellor Karl] Rove. I also work with [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld a great deal...
...when talking about American aims, as he did when talking about North Korea. "I believe in freedom," he said, summing up his hard-line approach to the rogue nation, as if that were all that needed to be said. "He sees no shades of gray," says National Security Adviser Condi Rice...
...class photo - where each leader is condemned to wear a gaudy shirt of his host country-without looking goofy. His work done, Bush left 12 hours earlier than scheduled; the famous homebody was anxious to get back to his own bed. "I have to run," said National Security Adviser Condi Rice speaking with reporters after the Putin meeting, "because you know when the President is ready to go, the President is ready to go." With Bush gone, that meant the end of the security sweeps. Loaded down with thin blue plastic bags of custom made clothing, antique paintings and embroidered...
...this is personal chemistry," says a top Bush aide. "Condi and the President are very close. They're friends. He trusts her. That means a lot." Everyone says Condi is like a daughter to Bush...