Rice is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded eleven honorary doctorates. She currently resides in Stanford, California. Skip to: Skip to content Skip to navigation. Publications In the News. Publication Type Most Recent. May The direction we were trying to take the department was out of line with what was being rewarded. And finally you have to look to see whether there are impediments to people doing the right thing.
For instance, in the Department of State I needed Arab speakers to go to places like Baghdad, so I had to take them out of places like Cairo. But if they left Cairo, their families had to move all the way back to the United States. So we made it possible for their families to stay in Cairo while they served in Baghdad.
When you moved from National Security to the State Department, you said you preferred having line responsibility to being in essentially a staff position. Looking back now, did that bear out? There were some things I loved about being in the White House. I was a few paces from the President; I saw him six, seven times a day.
I admire him, and I loved working with him that closely. Your management style has been described as corporate and hierarchical. How would you describe it? Has it changed over the years? For instance my assistant secretaries of state had an open door to me.
They were the people who had to make things happen, and I made it clear that they were empowered from the very beginning. That would be chaos. I got better at delegating, I think, after that. How did you learn on the job and deal with people who thought you were in over your head?
And with those who thought they should have been provost? Well, I had one advantage: It was clear what my focus had to be. I got people around me who I trusted and who I felt could help do the work. I was pretty sharp with people. Rice also works tirelessly to educate the public on international relations. In , when her appointment as Secretary of State ended, Rice returned to teaching.
She has published several books including her two autobiographies. She also serves on the board of several companies including the Boys and Girls Club. Although she did not pursue a career as a musician, Rice continues to play the piano.
She also supports the arts through several charities. While working in Washington DC, Rice took up golfing as a leisure activity. In , her leisure activity gained her another first. She became one of the first female members admitted to Augusta National Golf Club, an organization that had excluded women for 80 years. MLA — Norwood, Arlisha. National Women's History Museum, Date accessed. Chicago- Norwood, Arlisha. Condoleezza Rice Bush during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
A few years later, in , Rice was appointed national security adviser by President George W. Bush , becoming the first African American woman and woman to hold the post. She went on to become the first African American woman to serve as U. Secretary of State — she became the nation's 66th Secretary of State in , following Colin Powell 's resignation, and served from to As Secretary of State, Rice dedicated her department to "Transformational Diplomacy," with a mission of building and sustaining democratic, well-governed states around the world and the Middle East in particular.
To that end, she relocated American diplomats to such hardship locations as Iraq, Afghanistan and Angola, and required them to become fluent in two foreign languages. She also created a high-level position to defragment U. The event was monumental: The Augusta National Golf Club, which opened in , had infamously been known for its all-male membership and repeated failure to admit women. Rice delivered a riveting speech on the second day of the convention, spurring positive media attention: "I think my father thought I might be president of the United States.
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