Rice recap
Condoleezza Rice may have been more interested in the job of vice president than she let on, but she could also see the writing on the wall. For a new afterword to the paperback edition of her biography on Rice, Elisabeth Bumiller conducted a new interview with Rice this past fall.
In addressing her possible selection as a vice presidential nominee, Rice said she told John McCain, “John, we both know you don’t need this.”
“I’ve been a big part of the Bush legacy,” she further explained to Bumiller, “and to the degree that he was going to have to move on, it would not have been a good thing, for him or for me.”
Rice reiterated her desire to write a foreign policy book when she leaves public life, but she also recognizes that “I can’t stand back and write a book that is separate from my personal journey.” She said she also plans to expand the Center for a New Generation, a charity for young minorities that she founded in Palo Alto, Calif.
