Word: condoleezza
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boat trip with Condoleezza Rice...
...five hours' sleep for a 7 a.m. meeting and laying out his postelection strategy. "Right off the bat he said we're going to focus on the economy and unfinished business," says an official. Bush instructed the aides--Karen Hughes, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, chief of staff Andrew Card, communications director Dan Bartlett and strategist Karl Rove--to "tone it down. Let it speak for itself." But the President was smiling. "This," he said, "is a great...
...mixed success. The Administration's belated proposal for a Department of Homeland Security remains bottled up in Congress. The FBI is just at the beginning of a mammoth reorganization to refocus its mission on counterterrorism. In June, a mere 10 months after Bush and his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, chose retired General Wayne Downing to head counterterrorism operations at the National Security Council, Downing abruptly resigned, frustrated by his lack of power. His successor, retired Air Force General John Gordon--a former deputy director of the CIA--gets higher marks from insiders, though some complain that the Counter-Terrorism...
...past few months, the Bush administration has stated interest in democratizing Iraq. Cheney and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice have each publicly addressed democratization...
...some of the semantic gymnastics more familiar from his predecessor by suggesting that "regime change" could simply mean compliance with UN demands - if Saddam ended his wicked ways, his regime would have changed, right? That followed comments on Sunday by Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to the effect that the U.S. priority was simply getting rid of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction...