Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story (35 page)

Two: AN AMERICAN LEGACY

23
“The multiethnic part [of American society] . . .”
“Dream’s Focus Fundamental for Leadership in 21st Century,” editorial by Condoleezza Rice,
Birmingham News,
April 23, 2000

24
It could be the opening moments . . .
“Condoleezza Rice: Defying the Stereotypes,”
Birmingham News
, January 22, 2001

25
“Knowledge must be acquired . . .” Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry
, by T. G. Goud, online text at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries “Documenting the American South” (
docsouth.unc.edu/church/
steward/steward.html)

25
“Around 1918 . . .”
Rice’s speech at the Republican National Convention, August 1, 2000

26
“My grandfather asked . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

26
“My family has been Presbyterian . . .”
Ibid.

27
“I can see him even now . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

27
“He really was a person who believed . . .”
“Rice Turns her Focus to Family,”
Birmingham News
, March 19, 2001

27
Strong parallels run between Condi’s paternal . . .
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

28
“civilizing agent . . .”
Washington’s Famous Atlanta Address of 1895, as posted on the Booker T. Washington National Monument web site (
nps.gov/bowa/tuskin.html
)

28
“habits of thrift . . .”
Ibid.

28
“Albert Ray worked three jobs . . .”
“Transform America, One by One,” editorial by Condoleezza Rice,
Birmingham News
, May 22, 1994

29
“As a matter of fact . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

29 The term Jim Crow . . . AFRO-American Almanac web site (
toptags.com/aama/docs/jcrow.htm
)

30
Nurses: No person or corporation . . .
“State Black Codes National Parks Service,” web site (
www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm
)

31
“Always remember . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

31
“They had broken the code . . .”
Ibid.

31
“If you take the time to learn . . .”
“Transform America, One by One,” editorial by Condoleezza Rice,
Birmingham News
, May 22, 1994

32
“Our grandfathers had this indomitable outlook . . .”
Ibid.

33
“Dr. Love was absolutely committed . . .”
Interview with Betty Richardson

34
“Angelena was very beautiful . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

34
“the very picture . . .”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

34
“So I should have . . .”
“Political Punch in a Package of Charm,”
Financial Times
, February 26, 2000

34
“I don’t know too many American families . . .”
“People in the News Profile: Condoleezza Rice,”
CNN.com
web site (
www.cnn.com/CNN/programs/people/shows/rice/profile.html
)

34
“They wanted the world . . .”
Ibid.

Three: TWICE AS GOOD

36
“My parents . . .”
“Profile: Condoleezza Rice,” BBC News Online, September 25, 2001 (
news.bbc.co.uk
)

37
“They simply ignored . . .”
“People in the News Profile: Condoleezza Rice,”
CNN.com
web site (
www.cnn.com/CNN/programs/people/shows/rice/profile.html
)

37
“I had parents who gave me . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

37
“It was a very controlled . . .”
“A Steely Southerner,”
Newsweek,
August 6,2001

38
“My mother played . . .”
“Mad About Music,” transcript of the WNYC radio program aired on September 7, 2001

38
“So she said . . .”
Ibid.

38
“Condi’s always been so focused . . .”
“Aunt G.’s Favorite Niece: Condoleezza Rice,”
Virginian-Pilot
, March 14, 2002

39
“They didn’t play . . .”
Interview with Juliemma Smith

39
“Condi learned how . . .”
Ibid.

39
“My mother was stunningly beautiful . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

40
“My sister always knew that . . .”
“Aunt G.’s Favorite Niece: Condoleezza Rice,”
Virginian-Pilot
, March 14, 2002

40
“I knew my baby . . .”
Ibid.

41
“waiting for what seemed like hours . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

41
“[She] wasn’t an outdoors child . . .”
Ibid.

41
“What in the world . . .”
“Condoleezza Rice: Defying the Stereotypes,”
Birmingham News
, January 22, 2001

41
“Condi doesn’t belong to us . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

42
“I’m waiting for my instructions . . .”
“A Steely Southerner,”
Newsweek
, August 6, 2001

42
“John and Angelena were the perfect parents . . .”
“There IS a Doctor in the House,”
In the Black
, Summer 2001

42
“I remember when I was about ten . . .”
“Mad About Music,” transcript of the WNYC radio program aired on September 7, 2001

42
“I think I was the first black student . . .”
Ibid.

43
“I grew up in a family in which . . .”
“Compulsion to Achieve,”
The New York Times
, December 18, 2000

43
“It wasn’t as if someone said . . .”
“A Steely Southerner,”
Newsweek
, August 6, 2001

43
“My parents were very strategic . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

44
“I remember the woman standing there . . .”
Ibid.

44
“She just could not understand”
“Condoleezza Rice: Defying the Stereotypes,”
Birmingham News
, January 22, 2001

45
“I don’t remember . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

45
“You don’t want to go to Kiddieland . . .”
Ibid.

45
“My parents had to try to explain . . .”
“Academic Style: Stanford’s New Provost Brings a Different Perspective to Campus,”
Chicago Tribune
, August 15, 1993

45
“The Rices were kind of joyless . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

46
“He was a big man . . .”
Interview with Margaret Cheatham

46
“John’s scouts made up one . . .”
Interview with Reverend William Jones

47
“this fine young man . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

47
“My dad was a football coach . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine
, February 2002

47
“When I grow up I’m going to marry . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

48
“It was music with my mother . . .”
University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies brochure

48
“Condi was always interested in politics . . .”
Interview with Juliemma Smith

48
“We almost always stopped on college campuses . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

48
“Figure skating was . . .”
“West Wing Story: America’s Favorite Bushie,”
Newsweek,
August 1, 2001

49
“the year of all the bombings . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

50
“The police would show up . . .”
Interview with Pam King

50
“I have a sort of pure . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

51
“Those terrible events . . .”
“Soviets Face Hard Choices in Arms Control, Rice Says,” Stanford University News Service, December 2, 1983

51
“It’s too hard to get there . . .”
Interview with Pam King

51
“When integration occurred . . .”
Ibid.

52
“We all lived within range . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

53
“The white power structure . . .”
Interview with Jack Davis

53
“My father worked downtown . . .”
Ibid.

53
“challenging our way of life”
“Connor Behind Bill Banning ‘Rides,’”
Birmingham Post-Herald
, August 25, 1961

54
“With firemen brandishing their hoses . . .”
“Dogs, Water Used to Halt Negro March,”
Montgomery Advertiser
, May 4, 1963

55
“My father was not a march-in-the-street preacher . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

56
“I remember a slight sensation . . .” “
In Race for White House, the ‘Cult of Condi’ Plays Growing Role,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 28, 2000

56
“I remember more than anything the coffins . . .”
“Honored to Have the Chance,”
Boston Globe
, December 21, 2000

57
“In 1952, John Rice himself went to vote . . .”
Ibid.

57
“The first Republican I knew . . .”
Rice’s Speech at the Republican National Convention, August 1, 2000

58
“The people there stopped eating . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine,
February 2002

58
“a revered figure”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

58
“The legal changes made a tremendous difference . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

58
“I am so grateful to my parents . . .”
Stanford University News Service bulletin, December 2, 1983

59
By the time John arrived as the new dean . . .
“Stillman College: A Glance at the Past,” Stillman College Archives, 1974

Four: CHOPIN, SHAKESPEARE, OR SOVIETS

60
“I don’t ever remember . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine,
February 2002

61
“sick and tired . . .”
“Acknowledge that You Have an Obligation to Search for the Truth,” Stanford Report, June 16, 2002

61
“I will never forget . . .”
Ibid.

62
“DU is more aware of minority problems . . .”
University of Denver
Clarion
, October 9, 1972

64
“That seems to be how . . . In the 1940s . . .”
Interview with Sr. Sylvia Pautler

65
“All that I remember is focusing . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

65
“Now once you got out into the larger world . . .”
“People in the News Profile: Condoleezza Rice,”
CNN.com
web site (
www.cnn.com/CNN/programs/people/shows/rice/profile.html
)

66 “
She was very . . .”
Interview with Sr. Sylvia Pautler

66
“The Sisters of Loretto . . .”
Interview with Therese Saracino

67
“I was her math teacher . . .”
Ibid.

67
“That was a lot of money back then . . .”
Interview with Deborah Carson

68
“Poor guy. He felt sort of . . .”
“The President’s Prodigy,”
Vogue
, October 2001

69
“My father was fundamentally against it . . .”
College Acquaintance Recruitment Experience (CARE) brochure, University of Denver

70
“I’m the one who speaks French! . . .”
“Lessons of Might and Right,”
Washington Post
, September 9, 2001

71
“That had been my mother and father’s strategy . . .”
Ibid.

71
“The truth is that I was a terrible procrastinator . . .”
“Oprah Talks to Condoleezza Rice,”
O: The Oprah Magazine,
February 2002

71
“I did the reading at the last minute . . .”
“Take Small Classes, Experiment, College Frosh Told,” Stanford News Service bulletin, October 1993

72
“I met eleven-year-olds who could play . . .”
“Mad About Music,” transcript of the WNYC radio program aired on September 7, 2001

72
“We both became disillusioned . . .”
Interview with Darcy Taylor

72
“We all entered several contests a year . . .”
Ibid.

73
“murder Beethoven”
“Star in Waiting,”
National Review
, August 30, 1999

73 “
I decided . . .”
“Dream’s Focus Fundamental for Leadership in 21
^st
Century,” editorial by Condoleezza Rice,
Birmingham News,
April 23, 2000