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November 19, 2004
The Biography of a Parrot
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 Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
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. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.
Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.
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Comments
I find it shameful.
Really.
It effin reeks.
The woman is top notch.
But that's what happens with partisan politics. People stay quiet when "the enemy" is hit.
Posted by: DarkStar at November 19, 2004 03:42 PM
She rules. Good thing she didn't listen to those bigoted naysayers, or else she wouldn't be one of our leaders.
Posted by: mj at November 19, 2004 07:05 PM
hm.
can you find me a secretary of state in the last 60 years without the same type of bio?
Posted by: Lester Spence at November 19, 2004 10:24 PM
I doubt it, but the question is whether or not we can find one with such a slanderously disrespectful portrayal. Really, where has Condi Rice failed?
Posted by: Cobb at November 19, 2004 11:25 PM
A theory Rush said (and yeah, its just political entertainment, but it makes a lot of sense) was that she strayed from the Black Democract fold and now is considered an 'Uncle Tom.' Really, who is being racist here? And which side touts themselves as the champions of the minorities?
I disagree with her politics in some regards but she has achieved much more than the vast majority of the people involved in the federal government.
I must say that she has all of my respect, not only for her qualifications but also because of her being an example of achievemnt despite adversity to other Blacks and Women.
My props Dr. Rice.
Posted by: Klevin at November 20, 2004 02:22 AM
Where could we find a more decent woman in politics? I think Condeleeza exemplifies the word Integrity.
Integrity: 1. Fidelity to moral principles, 2. Soundness; completeness.
I find it truly disgusting that the media fawns all over the likes of Hillary Clinton and N. Pelosi, when there is a wonderful a stand-up gal in the White House taking on the tough challenges every day. Condi deserves a promotion in 2008!
Posted by: MT at November 20, 2004 07:44 AM
Condi Rice is top notch.
I've defended her strongly in some e-forums where she was called named.
But again I'll ask, if such attacks are wrong and should be spoken out against by "Black liberals," why don't "Black conservatives" defend "Black liberals" against similar slander?
And to raise it a notch. If someone is doing a good job, why not note it, even if the person is not in your political camp?
Again, when have "Black conservatives" given props to Earl Graves, Sr.?
Posted by: DarkStar at November 20, 2004 08:28 AM
Condi & Alberto Gonzales are taking the heat from the il-liberal left because they don’t “know their place"!
Posted by: True_Liberal at November 20, 2004 12:40 PM
Like Glenn Loury took heat from conservatives because he dared to question them?
Posted by: DarkStar at November 20, 2004 04:06 PM
Which Glenn Loury? The one who recognized, in his hometown Chicago, the "internal problem" of Blacks 35 years before Cosby spoke up?
Or the one who now believes Blacks' problems are chiefly external?
Gimme a break. I'll take Condi any day.
Posted by: True_Liberal at November 20, 2004 04:51 PM
Gimme a break.
You don't even know it, but Q.E.D.
Posted by: DarkStar at November 21, 2004 05:37 PM