US Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice goes before the Senate next week in the first test of her ability to sell the hardline US foreign policies she crafted with President George W. Bush.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice walks down stairs next to U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's office with the 'Preamble To The United States Constitution' printed on the wall at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., outside Washington, January 13, 2005. Rice, the first African-American woman nominated to be secretary of state, begins two days of hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week. Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters
U.S. President George W. Bush walks with Condoleezza Rice, his nomination for Secretary of State (R) and Robert Zoellick, his nomination for Deputy Secretary of State, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, January 7, 2005. Zoellick, who served at the State Department as undersecretary for economic affairs and as counselor for former Secretary of State James Baker has steered U.S. trade policy around the world over the past four years. REUTERS/Jason Reed
