Word: condoleezza
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...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...
...What to expect: ? Regime Change (at the State Department) The resignation of Secretary of State Colin Powell?and his replacement by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice?marks the beginning of a changing of the guard at Foggy Bottom. The President wants a diplomatic team that focuses on international-threat reduction a little more and on second-guessing the White House a whole lot less. With Dr. Condi (a Bush confidant?indeed, a member of his mind-meld club) at the helm and a new crew with less of a striped-pants attitude, look for North Korea to become a more...
...RESIGNED. ROD PAIGE, 71, as U.S. Education Secretary; SPENCER ABRAHAM, 52, as Energy Secretary; ANN VENEMAN, 55, as Agriculture Secretary; and COLIN POWELL, 67, as the Bush Administration's long-embattled Secretary of State; in Washington, D.C. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has been nominated to replace Powell...
With victory in hand, it's time for Bush to restock his Cabinet. Colin Powell and John Ashcroft will probably depart; Condoleezza Rice may get a new post...
...Word went out from Air Force One that no one in the campaign or at G.O.P. headquarters was to make a political calculation within earshot of a reporter. While Bush spoke in Toledo in the late afternoon, his political aides discussed setting a trap for Kerry. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice briefed Bush throughout the day on the details of the tape, and Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, tried to persuade al-Jazeera not to run it. Once aides were sure the video was being aired, however, Bush wrote down some remarks that included Senator Kerry. "We knew...