at lunch and he would say, so, what is everybody reading? and i was busy and reading mostly cables and i would have to say to myself did i say last week i was reading that book? because he moved on this something else. really, really smart, insightful person. ments he pushed everybody. you make the claim you think what happened with the arab spring and what s happened with gaddafi by the way, were you obsessed to find out gaddafi had an obsession and crush on you? yeah, it s a little weird. i learned about it before i went to libya. oh, yeah, a couple foreign minister friends told me about it. are you suggesting he was flirting with you? i don t know if gaddafi flirted. i don t think that s quite the right way to think about it. all i know is i went there to do a job, he had given up his weapons of mass destruction, he had gottennen out of the terrorist families and he was going to pay the victims family pan am?
lead reforms now. they said you don t know my people. it s me or the muslim brotherhood and then he engaged in policies to make that sure, that the muslim brotherhood would be strong. you saw this coming? we saw it coming. and moreover, it was linked to 9/11 in the following way. the freedom gap produced the hopelessness and the hay tread and the extremists on top that ultimately ended up in the al-qaedas of the world. so reinstituting an american policy in the middle east or instituting an american policy in the middle east, we followed everywhere else. freedom and instability ultimately are friends of one another is posh. i were described in the book the bush doctrine and urn asked an important question by the president, should we go after state-sponsored terrorism. and we have approximatecy wars funded
book he was a minister and he called you and he told you i m going home just before he died. right. my dad was a very religious man, as i am. i am the daughter of a presbyterian minister and grand daughter after presbyterian minister. my further was quite ill with a brain injury. he wasn t completely able to communicate, but some. i called him that night and he said i m going home. and i said daddy, you are at home and he said no, i m going home. he died a couple of days later. it s always been very difficult for me because i told then president elect bush that i probably couldn t go to washington, this was just after the decision about florida had been made, and my father was still alive and he was very ill and i said i don t think i can go, i can t leave my father this way. he said i m not asking you to leave your daddy.
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college and graduate students. it s their turn to ask condeleezza rice about her time in the white house. i was only kidding when i said you were liberal. there are a couple. what is your name? i m a student at the columbia university of international and public affairs. thank you for being here. thank you. my question is dr. rice, you have chronicled your what advice do you have for aspiring public officials or diplomats? first of all, make sure at some point in your life you do public service. it s very much worth t i call it book no higher honor because i don t think there is no higher honor. but before you try to jump into the foray, become good at something. go to school, learn something. i tried to become a good soviet specialist before i went into government the first time and i was known to know something about the soviet union, which is