by Daniel Schorr

Christian Science Monitor

01/28/05

What Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might say, now that she has been confirmed, if she let her hair down: 'The nitpicking gaggle of Democrats who held up my confirmation for a week didn't harm me. The president says I'll make a great Secretary of State. But they did harm the conduct of our foreign policy at a critical moment. The president wanted me on board quickly because of the oncoming Iraqi election.

After that we'll be going to Europe to try to squeeze a little support from our so-called allies. And I don't relish the knowing smiles I'll get from the foreign ministers as one who has been called a liar by members of her own Senate.' ... Let me repeat -- that is what Secretary Rice might say...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0128/p09s02-cods.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp