Word: condoleezza
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Bush tapped Zoellick for the State Department’s number-two position at the recommendation of Secretary of State-Designee Condoleezza Rice...
President Bush proved again last week that he's not afraid to surround himself with powerful women, choosing Harriet Miers as his chief counsel, Margaret Spellings as head of the Education Department and Condoleezza Rice as Secretary of State. Rice leads the eye-popping list of ladies at the top as the first African-American woman to hold that title. But some of the surprising examples of the glass ceiling cracking can be found in faraway places, miles from Washington...
...Gonzales, is sent to take over the Justice Department. The White House counsel post and the Education Department are given over to close Bush advisers. Most important, Bush turns over the State Department--foreign-occupied territory in the view of most White Houses--to his closest foreign-policy confidant, Condoleezza Rice. Then he gives her job, National Security Council chief, to her deputy. Not since Nixon moved Henry Kissinger from the White House to the State Department has a President so seized the foreign-policy apparatus...
In one of the photo albums in her West Wing office, Condoleezza Rice keeps a picture of herself and President George W. Bush in a rowboat on a pond at the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Bush is standing at one end, peering over the edge at the bass in his stocked fishing hole. Rice is sitting at the other end, visibly uncomfortable. She may love talking sports with the President, but she's no fan of the water. "She can swim, but she doesn't like it," says a friend. "She and the outdoors are only on distant...
...thorny issues. They say the best way to strengthen moderate Palestinian leaders is for the U.S. to be clear about what the Palestinians will get if they make peace. Last June, an official involved tells TIME, Qurei and other top officials met quietly with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Berlin to push for progress toward Palestinian statehood. "They said, 'Why can't we jump to final status talks and start negotiating borders?'" says the official. Rice, according to the official, replied, "We're sitting in Germany. Its borders were settled in 1991, but by then it was a successful...