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The Daily Show
Jon Stewart And Condi Rice Talk Arab Spring, Iraq War (VIDEO)
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Jon Stewart
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stopped by the Daily Show on Tuesday to talk foreign policy with Jon Stewart.
The interview opened on a lighter note, with Stewart inquiring about a song that Libya's former dictator Muammar Qaddafi wrote for her, titled "Black Flower in the White House."
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Condoleezza Rice
Qaddafi Wrote Song For Rice: 'Black Flower in the White House'
In what may well be the most awkward personal moment in U.S. diplomatic history, in her new memoir Condoleezza Rice recalls a creepy 2008 meeting with then-Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi that ended with Qaddafi showing her photos of herself he had collected and a serenade of a song he had a famous Libyan composer write for her.
Rice's reaction? Run away, run away!!
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George W. Bush
Book: Bush Needed Condi To Explain 'Articulate' Flap During Dem Primary
Did George W. Bush really summon his African-American secretary of state for a lesson on junior-high-level racial politics?
So reports Newsweek's Richard Wolffe in his new book on Obama, Renegade: The Making Of A President.
Bush found himself perplexed by the flap over Joe Biden describing Obama as "articulate and bright and clean" in January 2007. So, naturally, the president turned to the top U.S. diplomat, the trusted Condi Rice, to explain what the heck this was all about.
Here's the tidbit from the first chapter of Wolffe's book:
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