Word: rice
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...word from Austin is that if George W. Bush becomes our next president, he would like to appoint three blacks to high-level positions - Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and a third person yet to be named. Powell and Rice would be serving in government posts more important than those held by any other African American - even in the Administration of a certain Democrat who bragged that he wanted his Cabinet to "look like America." That's a huge irony, considering that 92% of blacks slapped aside Bush's claim...
...some shortsighted politicians, such a wholesale rejection at the polls might bring thoughts of payback. Yet even some of Bush's strongest black opponents, such as Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., say they expect just the opposite from George W. Appointing Powell and Rice, they say, would be a way for Bush to court the group that spurned him most. "I've heard Republican strategists like Newt Gingrich argue that if they could just get 15% of the black vote, they would be in power for a millennium," says Jackson, who at 35 is showing signs of being as wily...
...could, George W. Bush would be spending Tuesday naming senior members of his Cabinet. Here's how it would go: "I am proud to have Colin Powell on board to be my Secretary of State and Condi Rice as my national security adviser." Bush is understandably anxious to make that happen: naming two African Americans among his first two Cabinet officers would certainly ring a much different-sounding starting bell than incoming Republican presidents have rung in the past...
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...make a virtue of his Cabinet musings, calling preparedness for office "the responsible course of action." "If the result is confirmed, he said, "we'll be ready." He said this as he sat for the cameras in Austin surrounded by the likes of "loyal friends" Lawrence Lindsey and Condy Rice. Update: The presumptive President-elect has a big Band-Aid on his jaw, and he looks a little tired and tense...