Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Defense.gov News Photo 050515-F-0571C-017.jpg|thumb|Rice greets U.S. military personnel at the American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 15, 2005.]]
Rice has appeared four times on the [[Time 100|''Time'' 100]], ''Time'' magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. Rice is one of only nine people in the world whose influence has been considered enduring enough to have made the list—first compiled in 1999 as a retrospective of the 20th century and made an annual feature in 2004—so frequently. However, the list contains people who have the influence to change for better or for worse, and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' has also accused her of squandering her influence, stating on February 1, 2007, that her "accomplishments as Secretary of State have been modest, and even those have begun to fade" and that she "has been slow to recognize the extent to which the U.S.'s prestige has declined."<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Elaine |last1=Shannon |first2=Romesh |last2=Ratnesar |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1584810,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204074544/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1584810,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 4, 2007 |title=Rice's Toughest Mission: How Condoleezza Rice hopes to bring peace to the Middle East - and salvage the Administration's foreign policy |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=February 1, 2007 |access-date=September 12, 2018 }}</ref> In its March 19, 2007, issue it followed up stating that Rice was "executing an unmistakable course correction in U.S. foreign policy."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html |title=Cheney In Twilight |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=March 19, 2007 |access-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406151439/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html |archive-date=April 6, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2004 and 2005, she was ranked as the most powerful woman in the world by ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine and number two in 2006 (following the [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic)|chancellor of Germany]], [[Angela Merkel]]).<ref>{{cite news |last1=MacDonald |first1=Elizabeth |first2=Chana R. |last2=Schoenberger |url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/31/most-powerful-women_cz_em_06women_0831intro.html |title=The World's Most Powerful Women |work=[[Forbes]] |date=September 1, 2006 |access-date=August 16, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023032/https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/31/most-powerful-women_cz_em_06women_0831intro.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Rice at Boston College.jpg|thumb|right|Rice makes an appearance at Boston College, where she is greeted by Father [[William P. Leahy|William Leahy]].]]

===Criticism from Senator Barbara Boxer===
[[California]] Democratic senator [[Barbara Boxer]] has also criticized Rice in relation to the [[war in Iraq]]. During Rice's confirmation hearing for U.S. secretary of state in January 2005, Boxer stated, "I personally believe—this is my personal view—that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell the war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html |title=Why the Crass Remarks About Rice? |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 22, 2005 |first=Colbert I. |last=King |author-link=Colbert I. King |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023040/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On January 11, 2007, Boxer, during a debate over the [[war in Iraq]], said, "Now, the issue is who pays the price, who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families, and I just want to bring us back to that fact."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/01/12/barbara-boxer-hits-condi-below-the-belt/ |title=Barbara Boxer hits Condi below the belt |work=[[Foreign Policy]] |date=January 12, 2007 |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921115658/https://foreignpolicy.com/2007/01/12/barbara-boxer-hits-condi-below-the-belt/ |archive-date=September 21, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ''[[New York Post]]'' and [[White House Press Secretary|White House press secretary]] [[Tony Snow]] called Boxer's statement an attack on Rice's status as a single, childless female and referred to Boxer's comments as "a great leap backward for feminism."<ref name="nochildren">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/white-house-spokesman-blasts-sen-boxers-exchange-with-secretary-rice |title=White House Spokesman Blasts Sen. Boxer's Exchange With Secretary Rice |work=[[Fox News]] |date=January 13, 2007 |access-date=August 20, 2018 |first1=Melissa |last1=Drosjack |first2=Greg |last2=Simmons |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023036/https://www.foxnews.com/story/white-house-spokesman-blasts-sen-boxers-exchange-with-secretary-rice |url-status=live }}</ref> Rice later echoed Snow's remarks, saying "I thought it was okay to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn't have children." Boxer responded to the controversy by saying "They're getting this off on a non-existent thing that I didn't say. I'm saying, she's like me, we do not have families who are in the military."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12cnd-rice.html |title=Exchange Turns Into Political Flashpoint |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 12, 2007 |first1=Helene |last1=Cooper |first2=Thom |last2=Shanker |access-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023131/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12cnd-rice.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Conservative criticism===

According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in late July 2008, former undersecretary of state and U.N. ambassador [[John R. Bolton]] was referring to Rice and her allies in the Bush Administration whom he believes abandoned earlier hard-line principles when he said: "Once the collapse begins, adversaries have a real opportunity to gain advantage. In terms of the Bush presidency, this many reversals this close to the end destroys credibility ... It appears there is no depth to which this administration will not sink in its last days."<ref name = "Eggen, WashingtonPost2008">{{cite news |first = Dan |last = Eggen |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901597.html |title = U.S. Talks With Iran Exemplify Bush's New Approaches |newspaper = The Washington Post |page = A4 |date = July 20, 2008 |access-date = July 21, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081013055423/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901597.html |archive-date = October 13, 2008 |url-status = live }}</ref>

Former [[United States Secretary of Defense|secretary of defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] repeatedly criticized Rice after their terms in office ended. In his book ''[[Known and Unknown: A Memoir]]'', he portrayed her as a young, inexperienced academic who did not know her place.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/rummys-still-swinging/|title=Rumsfeld lashes out at John McCain, Condoleezza Rice, and others. Bush's former secretary of defence is still swinging|first=Luiza|last=Savage|date=February 14, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2012|work=[[Maclean's]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320212650/http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/rummys-still-swinging/|archive-date=March 20, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, she responded, saying that Rumsfeld "doesn't know what he's talking about."<ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html|first = Rachel Rose|last = Hartman|date = April 28, 2011|title = Condoleezza Rice fires back at 'grumpy' Donald Rumsfeld|newspaper = The Ticket&nbsp;— Yahoo News|access-date = June 26, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080601094302/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html|archive-date = June 1, 2008|url-status = live}}</ref> She further addresses the issue in her own book, saying "He would become frustrated when my staff would reach out to military officers in the Pentagon to coordinate the particulars of a policy among the agencies. This was a routine responsibility for the [[United States National Security Council|NSC]], but for some reason Don interpreted such actions as a violation of his authority."<ref name="NHH">{{cite book |last=Rice |first=Condoleezza |date=2011 |title=No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington |edition=eBook|location=New York |publisher=Broadway Books |page=18 |isbn=978-0-307-95247-9}}</ref>

In his book ''In My Time'', [[Dick Cheney]] suggested that Rice had misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, saying that she was naïve. He called her advice on the issue "utterly misleading." He also chided Rice for clashing with White House advisers on the tone of the president's speeches on Iraq and said that she, as the secretary of state, ruefully conceded to him that the Bush administration should not have apologized for a claim the president made in his 2003 State of the Union address, on Saddam's supposed search for yellowcake uranium. She "came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right," Cheney wrote. Rice responded: "It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?", saying that she viewed the book as an "attack on my integrity."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0901/Condi-Rice-fires-back-at-Dick-Cheney |date=September 1, 2011 |title=Condi Rice fires back at Dick Cheney |first=Husna |last=Haq |website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=May 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321071828/http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0901/Condi-Rice-fires-back-at-Dick-Cheney |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rice has also been criticized by other conservatives. Stephen Hayes of the ''Weekly Standard'' accused her of jettisoning the [[Bush Doctrine]], including the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Stephen F. |last=Hayes |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-hayes/in-the-drivers-seat |title=In the Driver's Seat |journal=[[Weekly Standard]] |volume=13 |issue=36 |date=October 9, 2006 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023053/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/in-the-drivers-seat |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other conservatives criticized her for her approach to Russia policy and other issues.<ref>{{cite news |first=Claudia |last=Rosett |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/georgia-and-american-cowboy-jrinternet/ |title=Georgia and the American Cowboy |work=[[National Review]] |date=August 12, 2008 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023036/https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/georgia-and-american-cowboy-jrinternet/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Views within the Black American community===
[[File:RiceRatings.png|thumb|right|Rice's [[approval rating]]s from January 2005 to September 2006]]

Rice's ratings decreased following a heated battle for her confirmation as Secretary of State and following [[Hurricane Katrina]] in August 2005. Rice's rise within the [[George W. Bush administration]] initially drew a largely positive response from many in the black community. In a 2002 survey, then National Security Advisor Rice was viewed favorably by 41% of black respondents, but another 40% did not know Rice well enough to rate her and her profile remained comparatively obscure.<ref name=Tilove>{{cite web |first=Jonathon |last=Tilove |url=https://jonathantilove.com/black-america-powell-rice/ |title=For Black America, The Thrill of Powell and Rice Is Gone |work=Newhouse News Service |date=March 11, 2004 |access-date=June 26, 2011 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023037/https://jonathantilove.com/black-america-powell-rice/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As her role increased, some black commentators began to express doubts concerning Rice's stances and statements on various issues. In 2005, ''[[The Washington Post]]'' columnist [[Eugene Robinson (journalist)|Eugene Robinson]] asked, "How did [Rice] come to a worldview so radically different from that of most black Americans?"<ref>{{cite news |first=Eugene |last=Robinson |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102401370.html |title=What Rice Can't See |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=October 25, 2005 |access-date=August 16, 2018 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023044/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102401370.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Rice and Downer at the Reagan Library May 23, 2007.jpg|thumb|Rice and Australian Foreign Minister [[Alexander Downer]] participate in a news conference at the [[Ronald Reagan Presidential Library]] in [[Simi Valley]], California, 2007.]]

In August 2005, American musician, actor, and social activist [[Harry Belafonte]], who served on the Board of TransAfrica, referred to blacks in the Bush administration as "black tyrants." Belafonte's comments received mixed reactions.<ref name=Tilove />

Rice dismissed these criticisms during a September 14, 2005 interview when she said, "Why would I worry about something like that? ... The fact of the matter is I've been black all my life. Nobody needs to tell me how to be black."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/53155.htm |title=Interview with Bill O'Reilly of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News |via=state.gov |work=[[O'Reilly Factor]] |date=September 14, 2005 |access-date=June 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022055436/http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/53155.htm |archive-date=October 22, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Black commentators have defended Rice, including [[Mike Espy]],<ref>{{cite news |via=[[Mmegi]] |url=http://www.mmegi.bw/2005/October/Tuesday25/825547845951.html |archive-date=March 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303100627/http://www.mmegi.bw/2005/October/Tuesday25/825547845951.html |title=Mrs President |date=October 25, 2005 |access-date=August 16, 2018 }}</ref> [[Andrew Young]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - Transcripts |url=https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ip/date/2005-01-25/segment/01 |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=transcripts.cnn.com}}</ref> [[C. Delores Tucker]] (chair of the National Congress of Black Women),<ref name=":0" /> [[Clarence Page]],<ref>{{cite news |first = Clarence |last = Page |url = http://jewishworldreview.com/0106/page011006.php3 |title = Why Condi's star is rising |website = Chicago Tribune |date = January 10, 2006 |access-date = July 29, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060506181555/http://jewishworldreview.com/0106/page011006.php3 |archive-date = May 6, 2006 |url-status = live }}</ref> [[Colbert King]],<ref name = "King, WashingtonPost2006">{{cite news |first = Colbert |last = King |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html |title = Why the Crass Remarks About Rice? |newspaper = The Washington Post |page = A17 |date = January 22, 2005 |access-date = August 29, 2006 |archive-date = August 23, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023046/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27818-2005Jan21.html |url-status = live }}</ref> [[Dorothy Height]] (chair and president emerita of the [[National Council of Negro Women]])<ref name = "King, WashingtonPost2006"/> and [[Kweisi Mfume]] (Congressman and former CEO of the [[NAACP]]).<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/auntjemima1121 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625034918/http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/auntjemima1121 |archive-date=June 25, 2008 |title=NAACP: Calling Rice 'Aunt Jemima' is wrong |date=November 22, 2004 |access-date=August 17, 2018 }}</ref>