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Condoleezza Rice

American diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 11, 2026
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Condoleezza "Condi" Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has served as the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2009, 2001, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Condoleezza, Rice and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Condoleezza Rice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.