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In 2023, after former President Trump and [[Governor of Florida]] [[Ron DeSantis]] criticized US support for Ukraine, Rice stressed the need for any potential presidential candidates to understand the essence of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t just extinguish your neighbor."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3874824-condoleezza-rice-warns-gop-candidates-against-pulling-back-from-ukraine-these-conflicts-always-come-home/|title=Condoleezza Rice warns GOP candidates against pulling back from Ukraine: ‘These conflicts always come home’|date=February 26, 2023|publisher=The Hill}}</ref>
In 2023, after former President Trump and [[Governor of Florida]] [[Ron DeSantis]] criticized US support for Ukraine, Rice stressed the need for any potential presidential candidates to understand the essence of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t just extinguish your neighbor."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3874824-condoleezza-rice-warns-gop-candidates-against-pulling-back-from-ukraine-these-conflicts-always-come-home/|title=Condoleezza Rice warns GOP candidates against pulling back from Ukraine: ‘These conflicts always come home’|date=February 26, 2023|publisher=The Hill}}</ref>
=== Author ===
=== Author ===
In 2010, Rice released ''Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family'', an account of her upbringing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stanforddaily.com/2010/11/05/review-extraordinary-ordinary-people/|title=Review: ‘Extraordinary, Ordinary People’|first=Micah|last=Siegel|publisher=The Stanford Daily}}</ref> [[John McWhorter]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' summarized, "If there is a lesson from Rice’s book, it is that the civil rights revolution made it possible for an extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to embrace a race-neutral subject and ride it into service as secretary of state, all the while thinking of herself largely as just a person."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/books/review/McWhorter-t.html|title=A Life Between|date=October 15, 2010|publisher=The New York Times|first=John|last=McWhorter}}</ref>

In 2011, Rice wrote ''No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington'', a memoir of her time in the Bush administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-nov-04-la-et-1105-book-20111105-story.html|title=Book review: Condoleezza Rice is thorough in ‘No Higher Honor’|date=November 4, 2011|publisher=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204528204577009732948841296|title=Present at the Re-creation|date=November 1, 2011|first=Stephen F.|last=Hayes|publisher=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rice-reflects-bush-tenure-gadhafi-memoir/story?id=14846833|title=Rice reflects on Bush tenure, Gadhafi in new memoir|date=October 30, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref> In an interview with [[George Stephanopoulos]], Rice explained that she chose the title "because there really is no higher honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a different kind of Middle East" the hardest challenge they faced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/full-transcript-george-stephanopoulos-and-condoleezza-rice|title=Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Condoleezza Rice|date=November 2, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref>
In 2011, Rice wrote ''No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington'', a memoir of her time in the Bush administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2011-nov-04-la-et-1105-book-20111105-story.html|title=Book review: Condoleezza Rice is thorough in ‘No Higher Honor’|date=November 4, 2011|publisher=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204528204577009732948841296|title=Present at the Re-creation|date=November 1, 2011|first=Stephen F.|last=Hayes|publisher=Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rice-reflects-bush-tenure-gadhafi-memoir/story?id=14846833|title=Rice reflects on Bush tenure, Gadhafi in new memoir|date=October 30, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref> In an interview with [[George Stephanopoulos]], Rice explained that she chose the title "because there really is no higher honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a different kind of Middle East" the hardest challenge they faced.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/full-transcript-george-stephanopoulos-and-condoleezza-rice|title=Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Condoleezza Rice|date=November 2, 2011|publisher=ABC News}}</ref>


Revision as of 11:39, 14 February 2024

This article is part of a series about
Condoleezza Rice
  • U.S. Secretary of State

Post–Bush administration

After the end of the Bush Administration, Rice returned to academia and joined the Council on Foreign Relations.[1]

She appeared as herself in 2011 on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the fifth-season episode "Everything Sunny All the Time Always", in which she engages in a classical-music duel with Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). Within the world of the show, Donaghy had had a relationship with Rice during the show's first season.[citation needed]

In 2013, Rice charged Iran with having "done everything to make certain that you can't trust them", citing Iran's decades-long hiding of its nuclear program and giving the International Atomic Energy Agency "the runaround."[2] In 2015, Rice initially declined taking a public position on Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action "because I know how hard it is to be in there as opposed to out here", but added, "This particular deal I think has some good elements but the price that was paid was pretty high. It’s entirely possible that they are already at threshold status and we will never know it."[3] As the Trump administration weighed pulling out of the agreement, Rice said she would have "stayed in for alliance management reasons more than anything else" and charged the verification methods of the deal as not being "very strong."[4][5]

In August 2015, High Point University announced that Rice would speak at the 2016 commencement ceremony.[6] Her commencement address was highlighted by The Huffington Post,[7] Fortune,[8] Business Insider,[9] NBC News, Time, and USA Today.[10]

Rice with President Donald Trump, March 31, 2017

On March 31, 2017, Rice met with Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump at the White House.[11][12] In May, Rice said that alleged Russian hacking of DNC emails should "absolutely not" delegitimize Trump's presidency.[13]

In 2018, Rice called decisions by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to make overtures to the South Koreans "clever" and expressed that he was more isolated and reckless than his father.[14]

In 2021, Rice wrote an op-ed arguing that the United States withdrew from Afghanistan too quickly and called claims that Afghans were to blame for Taliban takeover a "corrosive and deeply unfair narrative".[15]

In April 2022, Rice attended Madeleine Albright's funeral, where she delivered a reading from the Bible.[16]

In 2023, after former President Trump and Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis criticized US support for Ukraine, Rice stressed the need for any potential presidential candidates to understand the essence of the conflict, which she defined as "defending a rules-based system that says might doesn’t make right, you can’t just extinguish your neighbor."[17]

Author

In 2010, Rice released Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family, an account of her upbringing.[18] John McWhorter of The New York Times summarized, "If there is a lesson from Rice’s book, it is that the civil rights revolution made it possible for an extremely talented black person (a woman, no less) to embrace a race-neutral subject and ride it into service as secretary of state, all the while thinking of herself largely as just a person."[19]

In 2011, Rice wrote No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington, a memoir of her time in the Bush administration.[20][21][22] In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Rice explained that she chose the title "because there really is no higher honor than serving your country" and named the Bush administration's attempts to consider "a different kind of Middle East" the hardest challenge they faced.[23]

It was announced in 2013 that Rice was writing a book to be published in 2015 by Henry Holt & Company.[24]

College Football Playoff Selection Committee

In October 2013, Rice was selected to be one of the thirteen inaugural members of the College Football Playoff selection committee.[25] Her appointment caused a minor controversy in the sport.[26] In October 2014, she revealed that she watched "14 or 15 games every week live on TV on Saturdays and recorded games on Sundays."[27] Her term on the committee expired at the conclusion of the 2016 college football season.[28]

Cleveland Browns Head Coach rumors

On November 18, 2018 ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that a league source had told him that Rice was being considered as a candidate in the Cleveland Browns' head coach search.[29][30] This report sparked jokes at the expense of the Browns and outcry due to both Rice's lack of any experience in coaching and Rice being a woman. Shortly after the initial report, the Browns and General Manager John Dorsey denied the report saying, "Our coaching search will be thorough and deliberate, but we are still in the process of composing the list of candidates and Secretary Rice has not been discussed."[31][32] Rice, who is a lifelong Browns fan, also denied the reports but joked that she "would like to call a play or two next season if the Browns need ideas."[33]

Speculation on political future

Rice speaks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Stanford University in 2022

As early as 2003, there were reports that Rice was considering a run for governor of California, while ruling out running for the Senate in 2004.[34] There was also speculation that Rice would run for the Republican nomination in the 2008 primaries, which she ruled out on Meet the Press. On February 22, 2008, Rice played down any suggestion that she may be on the Republican vice presidential ticket: "I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office in the United States."[35]

During an interview with the editorial board of The Washington Times on March 27, 2008, Rice said she was "not interested" in running for vice president.[36] In a Gallup poll from March 24 to 27, 2008, Rice was mentioned by eight percent of Republican respondents to be their first choice to be John McCain's Republican vice presidential running mate, slightly behind Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.[37]

Republican strategist Dan Senor said on ABC's This Week on April 6, 2008, that "Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for" the vice presidential nomination. He based this assessment on her attendance of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform conservative leader's meeting on March 26, 2008.[38] In response to Senor's comments, Rice's spokesperson denied that Rice was seeking the vice presidential nomination, saying, "If she is actively seeking the vice presidency, then she's the last one to know about it."[39]

In August 2008, the speculation about a potential McCain–Rice ticket finally ended when then-Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was selected as McCain's running-mate.

In early December 2008, Rice praised President-elect Barack Obama's selection of New York senator Hillary Clinton to succeed her as Secretary of State, saying "she's terrific". Rice, who spoke to Clinton after her selection, said Clinton "is someone of intelligence and she'll do a great job".[40]

Rumors arose once again during the 2012 presidential race that presumptive nominee Mitt Romney was looking into vetting Rice for the vice presidency. Rice once again denied any such intentions or desires to become the vice president, reiterating in numerous interviews that she "is a policy maker, not a politician."[41] Speculation ended in August 2012 when Romney announced that Representative Paul Ryan was chosen as his running-mate.

According to Bob Woodward's 2018 book Fear: Trump in the White House, then-Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus told then Republican nominee Donald Trump, that he should drop out of the race for the good of the party following the release of the Access Hollywood tapes. During these discussions, it was revealed that Mike Pence, the vice presidential nominee, had agreed to replace Trump on the top of the ticket as the Republican presidential nominee, with Rice agreeing to be Pence's running mate.[42]

References

  1. ^ "Membership Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. Archived from the original on August 18, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  2. ^ "Condoleezza Rice: Iran "absolutely" cannot be trusted". CBS News. October 2, 2013.
  3. ^ "Obama administration attacked by Condoleezza Rice over Iran nuclear deal". Independent. October 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Shelbourne, Mallory (May 1, 2018). "Condoleezza Rice defends Trump leaving Iran nuclear deal". The Hill.
  5. ^ Flatley, Daniel (May 2, 2018). "Quitting Iran Deal a Bad Idea But Not End of World, Condoleezza Rice Says". Bloomberg.
  6. ^ High Point University (August 18, 2015). "Condoleezza Rice To Serve As 2016 Commencement Speaker". High Point University. Archived from the original on August 25, 2015. Retrieved August 27, 2015.
  7. ^ "Condoleeza Rice Tells Grads To Find People They Disagree WIth". The Huffington Post. May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  8. ^ "8 Inspiring Women Leaders Share Their Best Advice For 2016 Grads". Fortune. May 25, 2016. Archived from the original on May 28, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  9. ^ "Instagram photo by Business Insider • May 24, 2016 at 3:58pm UTC". Instagram. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  10. ^ "Rutgers students decry Rice as commencement speaker". USA Today. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  11. ^ Diamond, Jeremy (March 31, 2017). "Trump meets with Condoleezza Rice". CNN.
  12. ^ Jackson, David (March 31, 2017). "Trump meets with Condoleezza Rice — who called for his ouster in October". USA Today.
  13. ^ "Condoleezza Rice: U.S. should 'move on' from Russian election interference". Yahoo News. May 9, 2017. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  14. ^ "Condoleezza Rice: Kim Jong Un is 'actually pretty clever'". CNN. January 14, 2018.
  15. ^ "Condoleezza Rice speaks out on Afghan withdrawal: 'The Afghan people didn't choose the Taliban'". Independent. August 18, 2021.
  16. ^ "Biden, Clintons herald Madeleine Albright as force for good at Washington funeral". Reuters. April 27, 2022.
  17. ^ "Condoleezza Rice warns GOP candidates against pulling back from Ukraine: 'These conflicts always come home'". The Hill. February 26, 2023.
  18. ^ Siegel, Micah. "Review: 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People'". The Stanford Daily.
  19. ^ McWhorter, John (October 15, 2010). "A Life Between". The New York Times.
  20. ^ "Book review: Condoleezza Rice is thorough in 'No Higher Honor'". Los Angeles Times. November 4, 2011.
  21. ^ Hayes, Stephen F. (November 1, 2011). "Present at the Re-creation". Wall Street Journal.
  22. ^ "Rice reflects on Bush tenure, Gadhafi in new memoir". ABC News. October 30, 2011.
  23. ^ "Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Condoleezza Rice". ABC News. November 2, 2011.
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  25. ^ "College Football Playoff officially unveils 13-member selection committee". SI.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  26. ^ "Condoleezza Rice discusses her role on the selection committee". SI.com. October 16, 2013. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  27. ^ Dinich, Heather (October 8, 2014). "Condi Rice talks committee ins, outs". ESPN. Archived from the original on July 30, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
  28. ^ "CFP SELECTION COMMITTEE". Archived from the original on May 12, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
  29. ^ "Source: Browns eye Condi Rice for HC interview". ESPN.com. November 18, 2018.
  30. ^ @AdamSchefter (November 18, 2018). "Browns interested in interviewing Condoleezza Rice for head coaching job, source tells ESPN" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  31. ^ "Condoleezza Rice and Browns deny ESPN report that team wants to interview her for head coach". The Washington Post. November 18, 2018. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  32. ^ "Adam Schefter shares story behind Condoleezza Rice-Browns report". March 3, 2020.
  33. ^ Benjamin, Cody (November 22, 2021). "Condoleezza Rice addresses old reports of Browns' interest: 'I certainly don't wanna be a head coach'". CBS Sports.
  34. ^ Marinucci, Carla (February 27, 2003). "Security adviser Rice weighs run for governor". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  35. ^ "Rice says has no plan to run for vice president". Reuters. February 22, 2008. Archived from the original on January 22, 2010. Retrieved March 28, 2008. I have always said that the one thing that I have not seen myself doing is running for elected office.
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  39. ^ Kessler, Glenn (April 7, 2008). "Rice: Still Not Running for VP". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 26, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2008. McCormack dismissed both as perfectly ordinary. 'I think if you look back at her tenure, in terms of her activities, you will find all of these activities perfectly normal and consistent with the way she has done her job over the past three years or so,' he said. 'If she is actively seeking the vice presidency, then she's the last one to know about it.'
  40. ^ Stephanopoulos, George (December 7, 2008). "Rice on Hillary: 'She's Terrific'". ABC News. Archived from the original on December 8, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2008.
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  42. ^ "Here are the top takeaways from Bob Woodward's new book on Donald Trump". ABC News. September 4, 2018. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
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