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-'''Condoleezza Rice''' is the 66th [[United States Secretary of State]], and the first [[African-American]] woman to hold the post. Prior to assuming her duties as Secretary of State, she served as [[National Security Advisor]] to [[President]] [[George W. Bush]]. Her objective of transformational diplomacy is to, "work with our many partners around the world to build and sustain democratic, well-governed states that will respond to the needs of their people -- and conduct themselves responsibly in the international system." As she stated at her confirmation hearing, "we must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom. And the time for diplomacy is now."<ref>[http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Condoleezza_Rice.shtml Condoleezza Rice]. Newsmax.</ref>
-== Earlier Life and Education ==
-Dr. Rice earned her B. A. in  [[politics|political]] [[science]] from the [[University of Denver]] in 1974 at age 19. The following year, she recieved her M.A. from the University of [[Notre Dame]]. She returned to the University of Denver, where she was awarded the Ph.D. in 1981.  In addition to [[English]], she speaks [[Russian]], [[French]], [[German]], and [[Spanish]].
-== Career In Academia ==
-Condoleeza was first an Assistant Professor at [[Stanford]] (1981–1987). She eventually earned tenure, becoming an Associate Professor (1987–1993), then Professor, and later Provost.<ref>[http://www.forbes.com/2001/10/15/crice.html Provost].</ref> She was the first black, first woman and the youngest person to be Provost.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/black.history/stories/13.rice/index.html Hoover Institute].</ref> She was also a [[Hoover Institute]] fellow. Her primary expertise was the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Warsaw Pact]] nations.
-As Provost, Dr. Rice balanced the budget, even though the deficit was said to be impossibly large, a prediction which Rice happily proved wrong. <ref>[http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/june9/rice-69.html Stanford University].</ref>
-== Career in Joint Chiefs and National Security Council ==
-In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  From 1989 to March 1991 she directed and also directed in a senior position, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council. She was also Special Assistant to the President of National Security Affairs. Rice was instrumental to help with developing Bush's and James Baker's policies to make full reunification of Germany. By 1990 she was already George H. W. Bush's principal advisor on the Soviet Union and one of his assistants for National Security Affairs. She impressed  President [[George H.W. Bush]], so much,  that he said to [[Gorbachev]] she "tells me everything I know about the [[Soviet Union]]."[http://dir.salon.com/story/politics2000/feature/2000/03/20/rice/index.html]
-After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Rice returned to her teaching position at Stanford, although she consulted on the former USSR for many. [[Pete Wilson]] appointed her to a bipartisan committee that had been formed to draw new lines for voting. She was also in a Federal Advisory Committee on men and woman training in the Military.
-She was helping George W. Bush for his victorious campaign for President in 2000, a later became a key advisor. She said in departure from the failed Clinton policies of the 1990s and an articulation of a new Bush plan at the convention speech “...America's armed forces are not a global police force. They are not the world's 911.”[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ricetext080100.htm]
-== Advising of National Security ==
-On 2000, Rice was appointed National Security Advisor and no longer served at Stanford. She was the first woman ever to serve in the position. Over 2001, Rice worked with CIA Director George Tenet almost daily on terrorism and national security issues.
-In early 2003, former [[First Lady]] and now Senator [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] spoke of disarming [[Saddam Hussein]]: "this is something that I have followed for a decade. If he were serious about disarming he would have been much more forthcoming...there is no accounting for the chemical and biological stocks."  Dr. Rice repeated these sentiments in an article in the ''[[New York Times]]'' entitled ''Why We Know Iraq Is Lying,'' "instead of implementing national initiatives to disarm, Iraq maintains institutions whose sole purpose is to thwart the work of the inspectors."[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030123-1.html]
-Leading up to the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, Rice campaigned for the incumbent president. She used this moment to state her belief that Saddam's government in Iraq contributed to the instability that produced the opportunity for a terrorist attack like the 9/11 attacks on America. At a Pittsburgh, she said "While Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the actual attacks on America, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a part of the Middle East that was festering and unstable, [and] was part of the circumstances that created the problem on September 11."
-== Business ==
-*Carnegie Corporation
-*Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
-*Charles Schwab Corporation
-*Chevron Corporation
-*Hewlett Packard
-*Rand Corporation
-*Transamerica Corporation
-*William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
-*KQED
-*J.P. Morgan Chase
-*University of Notre Dame
-*San Francisco Symphony
-*Center for New Generation
-*California and East Menlo Park
-*Vice President Boys and Girls Clubs of America of San Francisco
-*National Council for Soviet and East European Studies
-*Stanford Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition
-*Woodrow Wilson Center
-== Writings ==
-*Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995)
-*The Gorbachev Era (1986)
-*The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance (1984).
-==References==
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-[[Category:Educators]]
-[[category:United States Government]]
-==External links==
-*[http://www.indepthinfo.com/condoleezza-rice/index.shtml Biography of Condoleezza Rice]

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