Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a news conference with State Department Correspondents Association at a breakfast meeting at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington January 5, 2006. During this conference she praised Ariel Sharon as 'a man of enormous courage.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, shakes hands with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera at the State Department in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006
Wonderful happening today. My dad's dear friend who he has known for over 30 years we did not know he was trying to get to the funeral well he did not make the funeral but he turned up at our house when we arrived back home. The service was lovely dad said it was just how he wanted it to be. Dad did not go to graveside but they had a lean to at the back of the chapel with a seat in it and it was out of the wind and chill and dad sat there and after the formalities at the graveside he just walked down to look at the grave. The Chapel kindly laid on a cup of tea and cakes and scones and then we returned home. We had been back about half an hour when our friend Malcolm who has not visited us probably for over 15 years was at the door; dad speaks regularly to him on the phone though. He had been over to the village where the funeral was but he had gone to Parish Church instead of the Chapel. He does not drive so he had done all this by train and bus traveling something like 80 miles by the time he got to our house. It was an answer to prayer it gave dad something else to think about and even smile about it is so typical of his friend. I managed to get a meal for us including our other friend who drives dad around and does odd jobs for us and then he took Malcolm back to the station to catch the 7.30 train to Brighton (he lives in Worthing, Sussex). Thank you all that prayed or thought about us your prayer was answered in an amazing way. God Bless you all
Look at that picture of Madeline Albright sitting at the table next to Colin Powell. Ha! She looks like she is NOT happy, probably because she knows she is outclassed by everyone at the table, except for Robert McNamara.
Hi Snugs. I like the pictures of Condolezza Rice (did I spell that right?) What an impressive woman! I wish she would run for President.