Condoleezza Rice talks about her role in former President George W. Bush's administration when she became the first woman to be national security adviser.
She was the first female national security advisor and the second woman to be. She's got a doctorate of political science from the University of Denver. Plus, she was also one of the first women admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club. in a recent interview at Stanford University where she's Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution. "Then it occurs to you, ‘Oh yes, I will be the first woman to do this.
"In fact, he saved a failed piano major by his class on international politics," Rice said, adding that once she attained her position in the Bush administration she reached out to Albright for advice on what it was like to operate in the Middle East. In her role, Rice said she put women’s rights at the forefront and used her position to be a role model for women in countries where many were considered second-class citizens and "had not yet fully earned their rights."
"I never went to a country where I thought that women were not given rights and failed to speak about it," Rice said. "One of the things that Madeleine Albright and I talked about was to be a voice for women who were voiceless."
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