Stanford redux
After much speculation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice revealed yesterday that she will be returning to Stanford University after the Bush administration comes to a close on January 20.
Speaking to NPR’s Michele Keleman on “Morning Edition” Wednesday, Rice said, “I’ve been on leave from Stanford for all this time so it’s probably time to go back. … [T]here are a lot of great jobs outside government, including going back to the life of the mind.”
Once she gets there, she said she’s going to begin some “book projects,” including a foreign policy tome after she does some reflection. She also said she wants to write a book about her parents “who were educational evangelists and believed in the kind of upward mobility, as a result of educational opportunity, that I really think is at the core of who we are as a country.”
Speaking of which, she said she thought she might be 80 before an African-American was elected president, but she didn’t reveal who she voted for.
And she was quick to agree that she “can live without” the constant “limelight” of the blogs that follow her hairstyles and shoes.
