How Close is Condi to the Presidency now? I mean . . My high school Civics is kind of stale but . . is she 3rd in line President -> VP --> Secretary of State or Senate Pro tem? Rocket River
Fourth. You left out Speaker of the House. VP -> Speaker of the House -> Senate pres pro tempore -> Secretary of State
The folly that is GWB's lack of judgement is at play here. Rice's only apparent qualification for the job: her fierce loyality for the President.
I dunno. 4 years as NSA might put you in a good position to move to State. Especially if the administration wants someone who apparently buys into the doctrine, and it makes sense to do that. Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001. In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I also think its hard to decide on the race issue. I think its great that Bush puts a premium on appointing minorities and women. I can understand people saying they're figureheads but that may be a harsh AND unfair to Rice and Powell. Powell was chosen because he made sense and the post 9/11 Bush Doctrine wasn't defined yet, so he was seen as a moderating voice in the administration. Not someone who was going to be ignored from the get go. Rice has the President's confidence and again it seems unfair to say crap like 'put a black face on whitey's imperialism.'