Ten (Plus One) Facts About Condoleezza Rice
She is the First African American woman to serve as Secretary Of State and only the second woman to do so.
A course taken in her junior year of college was taught by an East European man who opened up a whole world to her about Eastern Europe. His name was Joseph Corbell. He had fled Czechoslovakia after the war. Interestingly he was Madeleine Albright’s father. (Albright was the first female Secretary of State)
She graduated from college at the age of 15 , with a degree in political science, graduating cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974.
She was the first female to hold the position of National Security Advisor to the President.
In 1993, Secretary Rice became Provost of Stanford University.
Her name is a musical term, “con dolcezza,” which means to “play with sweetness.”
She is an classically trained pianist and she is a member of a chamber music group. She began paying the piano at around five years old.
Her books include The Gorbachev Era (1986, with A. Dallin) and Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995, with P. Zelikow).
She grew up in segregated Alabama.
She considers herself an optimistic person.
Plus One!
She loves Football and it is speculated that she would love to be the Commisioner one day!
I have no opinion about the politics of this or any other individual. I am just sharing some interesting facts about People of Achievement!
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Comments: 17
You can't argue with success! Hope you two are well today!
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You might be surprised to know how many people really do graduate at 15 or younger!! Thanks for your comments but, as I said:
I have no opinion about the politics of this or any other individual. I am just sharing some interesting facts about People of Achievement!
Thanks for you comment...there are lots of folks who would certainly agree with you!
SO true.
Your comment is worthy of either Senator Biden or Boxer. Perhaps you should offer your services to Howard Dean, another paragon of racial sensitivity.
How abour starting an alumni group for Dropout U.
Thanks all of you for your interesting perspectives! Thanks for sharing them...
Whatever her political stance she is a success story.
George W. is a right-wing southern politician and Ms. Rice is one of his most trusted advisors. She's been his advisor since day one. I hear many complaints about G.W. and Condi but nobody is crying affirmative action.
Condi is now the diplomatic face of America, and she exemplifies all that is great about our country. She is an exceptionally gifted individual who belongs in a position of power.
I just love the fact that the U.S., roundly considered a white western hegemony, is represented by an attractive single black female who plays piano for hours at a time. I love the fact that her primary diplomatic and research interests lie in eastern europe and russia, not Africa. I love the fact that she doesn't feel the need to palliate African American bloviators who want black intellectuals to confine themselves to provinces that pertain to their race.
I want Dr. Rice to run for president in 2008, but, alas, she is too smart and too happy to subject herself to a 2 year presidential campaign. Sigh... Condi, I'm single.