This will be a real challenge for her. She hasn't had this kind of large-scale administrative experience before. Maybe they can find a good deputy for her.
I suppose it's too much to hope for that State should be cleaned out. Eisenhower couldn't do it. Nixon couldn't do it. Reagan couldn't do it. But it would be nice to get rid of at least a few of the worst offenders, especially among the Arabist faction.
?"In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.
As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.
From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.
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perhaps, Au contraire, she's more 'qualified' than any we can name of late - certainly run circles around Halfbright - what a disaster she was. We;re still paying for that...
Actually, yes she does. Having served as Provost of Stanford University, she has EXACTLY the type of experience necessary to deal with pseudo-intellectual prima-donna types such as those who infest both academia and the State Department.
Wasn't she provost of a university and then president of the same?
Yes, she has. She was the Provost at Stanford, and the Provost runs the campus on a daily basis. Given her 4 years experience in the Bush admin.,the Stanford years should be plenty.
What a pleasant contrast to that dreadful woman Clinton appointed; I can't even remember her name, I really can't but can sure still picture her, yuck.
I don't know why many are saying she has the chops to be SoS. To be honest - not a dig at her - I really don't know what she accomplished at the NSA. If anyone knows I would like some info to look up. Sorry to be such a contrarian.