Word: rice
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...Rice's staff asked State Department historians for the dossiers of successful Secretaries. One characteristic they had in common was clout. She can check that off. Now she must show...
...Rice has greater access and latitude than any Secretary of State since Henry Kissinger left government after Gerald Ford lost in 1976, and she has capitalized on every bit of it. Many senior officials at the National Security Council are Rice loyalists who date back to her days there, so the State Department and the White House work closely together and sometimes cut the Pentagon out, according to participants. Until now, she has won generally glowing marks for a record that includes offering the first substantive talks with Iran in 27 years. But some Bush aides were miffed that...
Earlier this month Rice took her senior staff to the Wye River Conference Center on Maryland's Eastern Shore to plan the fall, including a presidential trip to the U.N. The former plantation was the site of Bill Clinton's negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians. A reprise looks very far off to the Bush team. Nevertheless, friends say, Rice, 51, is thriving in her higher-profile role, working from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 or 8 at night, then treating herself to tennis, the Kennedy Center and brunches with friends on weekends. Roughly one Sunday a month...
...worked on the National Security Council of President George H.W. Bush, and some Bush-family aides say Rice's election as the first black and first woman President could be one of the clan's greatest legacies. Although no national race appears to be in the offing for 2008, friends hope she will eventually run statewide in California. Rice's staff recognizes that the speculation about her political future may be useful, and has overhauled the optics of the job to give her coverage greater pizazz. In Washington she appears with world leaders in front of a fireplace that could...
...shuttle diplomacy dramatically upended, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was somber as she addressed the press at 11:35 a.m. Sunday in Jerusalem. ?I am deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life in the bombing in Lebanon this morning,? she said of the Israeli military?s pre-dawn attack on a Lebanese village that killed more than 60 people, including a large number of children...