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It is wonderful to be here in East Lansing. I am honored to have been asked to join you for this ceremony. The academic in me is pleased to be at a university like MSU, respected around the world. The football and basketball fan in me is thrilled to be at the home of the Spartans. Peter McPherson, President of MSU -- Thank you for the work you did in Iraq, helping to build a free economy there. Members of the Board of Trustees -- Faculty and Staff -- Distinguished Alumni and Guests -- Graduates and Students -- Family and...

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 6th, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): National security adviser Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): National security adviser Condoleezza Rice; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.; actor Tom Hanks; director Steven Spielberg. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Colin Powell. THIS WEEK (ABC): National security adviser Condoleezza Rice. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Colin Powell; former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite; Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice yesterday promised Congress a full investigation into allegations that an Iraqi politician supported by the Pentagon told Iran the United States had broken the code it used for secret communications, and U.S. officials said the revelation destroyed an important source of intelligence.

<p>WASHINGTON -- As President Bush begins a week of foreign diplomacy, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice insists that he will one day rank alongside such towering pillars of 20th century statecraft as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.</p>

National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the formation of a new interim government in Iraq spells bad news for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other al Qaida terrorists operating inside the country. "This is a bad day for people like Zarqawi because it shows that the political process is moving forward," she told radio host Sean Hannity. "He's going to respond and people like him are going to respond by trying to test this new government, to test the will of the coalition," predicted Dr. Rice. "But Zarqawi and the former regime elements of Saddam loyalists are...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday called the new Iraqi interim government a "terrific list" of leaders. "I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction: this is a terrific list, a really good government and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged," Rice told reporters. Rice spoke after Iraqi leaders cut a face-saving deal with the United States and United Nations on a president and government to lead the country out of occupation. The 11th-hour compromise saw Washington's choice of president make way for tribal chief Ghazi Yawar. Yawar was sworn...

New York ON A THURSDAY they had the book party. It was a simple affair: just family, friends, coworkers, and journalists. They came to Ambassador Joseph Wilson's house, nestled in the ritzy Palisades neighborhood of Northwest Washington, to celebrate the release of his first book, The Politics of Truth. One thing Joe Wilson keeps track of is his "Notoriety Quotient," or the amount of attention he receives from the media. And that Thursday it seemed to be on the rise. For the past week The Politics of Truth was mentioned in the same breath as Ron Suskind's The Price of...

Russian President Putin Meets Condoleezza Rice to Discuss Iraq, Mideast and Bilateral Ties MOSCOW May 15, 2004 — Visiting U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday discussed the next steps necessary to bring stability to Iraq, a country on which Washington and Moscow have rarely seen eye to eye. The ITAR-Tass and Interfax news agencies quoted an unidentified Kremlin official as saying Rice brought Putin a letter from President Bush. The official did not discuss the letter's content. But U.S. administration officials said Rice's trip focused on the scheduled June 30 transfer of power...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Saturday to discuss Iraq and the Middle East, the Kremlin said. U.S. officials said before Rice's Friday arrival that talks would focus on the June 30 transfer of power to an interim Iraqi administration and a new U.N. resolution on Iraq. A statement from Putin's office said they also discussed "various issues relating to the Russian-U.S. cooperation, as well as key international problems," including Iraq. Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said Friday that Russia is prepared to work toward a new U.N. resolution on...

Rice turns on the charm to keep US allies loyal By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 15/05/2004) Condoleezza Rice, America's national security adviser, is appealing to Washington's allies not to panic over Iraq. She said the prisoner abuse scandal was being dealt with and that there was no alternative to backing America in its war against terrorism. Speaking ahead of her trip to Europe to bolster support for America's plans for Iraq's transition to self-rule, she said the scandal had been "a real shock, I think, to all of us to the American people, to members of the armed forces"....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said Thursday that terrorists today are driven by the same hatred that inspired Klansmen to bomb a church in 1963 in her hometown of Birmingham, Ala. President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser spoke to about 10,000 people — including a small group of protesters — at Vanderbilt University's Senior Class Day. The bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four girls, including her friend, 11-year-old Denise McNair, and was meant to instill fear, Rice said. "Those terrorists failed because of the poverty of their visions...

Story: http://www.tennessean.com/education/archives/04/05/51315665.shtml?Element_ID=51315665 A few snippets... As thousands of people listened appreciatively and a handful protested quietly, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told Vanderbilt University seniors yesterday that they should ''never make the mistake of assuming that some people do not share your desire to live freely.''Vanderbilt's decision to bring Rice to campus and give her an award for ''distinguished public service'' on the day before graduation upset some students and staff, who protested yesterday and earlier in the week. But most people seemed happy she was there, and she received two standing ovations and scattered laughs and applause.Holly DeVore Allen...

Bush dispatches Rice, Powell to help revive road map Washington - In a move to break a deadlock in peacemaking efforts, President Bush is sending national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to Berlin for talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and Secretary of State Colin Powell to Jordan to confer with Arab and Palestinian officials. Rice's meeting in Berlin with Qureia on May 17 represents a probe by the Bush administration of the prime minister's powers and ability to open talks with Israel and stop terror attacks. At the same time, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announced that Powell would...

As a big fan, I gotta expose you my sistah. You ain't foolin' me. Behind those steely eyes is a plan in action. After all, you are the quintessential Betty BAP (Black American Princess). We BAPs thrive on five-year plans of conquering the world. But at least I'm exposing you for a good reason. How many times have we heard liberal blacks (and even whites) call Dr. Condoleezza Rice a "race traitor" or "skeeza," that she doesn't give a whit about black folks? Au contraire. Take a look at this article (http://www.bday.co.za/bday/content/direct/1,3523,1607491-6078-0,00.html) that I discovered on a South African site....

Two of the nation's dynamic and most powerful women, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York) and National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice, will be honored for their significant contributions in society at the 4th biennial Leon H. Sullivan Summit Awards Dinner. The dinner will be held on Thursday, June 17, 2004 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. This year's ceremony salutes individuals who have defied the odds to make a positive impact on diverse people and communities both domestically and internationally. As the only First Lady to ever be elected to the United States Senate, Senator Clinton...

Dr. Rice's convocation can be watched via streaming Realmedia here beginning at 12:55 EDT.

Bush to send Condoleezza Rice to Berlin in coming weeks where renewing talks with Abu Ala will be on agenda (Israel Radio)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. national security adviser said on Tuesday that Iraq (news - web sites) was crucial to American efforts to export democracy to the Middle East, a transition that would require the commitment of a generation. Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) said the American drive for reform beginning with Iraq and Afghanistan (news - web sites) aimed to dispel a "terrible, virulent ideology" that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. "When Iraq is free and stable and prosperous and democratic, it will be the linchpin in a different kind of...

US Rice Speaks On Arab TV About Prisoner Abuse BEIRUT (AP)--Seeking to limit the damage from a scandal on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody, U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice took to Arab airwaves Tuesday to appeal for trust from a skeptical public. "We have a democratic system that holds people accountable for their actions," Rice said on the popular all-news Al-Jazeera satellite television station, which is widely seen across the Arab world and by Arab and Muslim communities elsewhere. "The president guarantees that those who did that be held accountable," Rice said in remarks dubbed into...

April 25, 2004, 12:15AM Rice gaffe at dinner has tongues wagging Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- There's continuing buzz over a comment national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made at what was apparently an off-the-record Washington power dinner with New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. and other Times people at the home of Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman. Rice, according to an account in this week's New York magazine, at one point said: "As I was telling my husb ... " then stopped and said, "As I was telling President Bush. ... " Eyebrows jumped; jaws...