Photo Gallery Condoleezza Rice's Breakthrough
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: The look she can give is feared among diplomats the world over.
Rice and US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad fly over Baghdad in a helicopter. Rice was involved in all major foreign policy decisions of the last eight years: Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, the failed rapprochement with Iran, the alienation of Europe, the nuclear conflict with North Korea, prisoner abuse in Guantanamo and the establishment of secret CIA prisons in Europe. No one could ever tell who in fact was shaping US foreign policy, Bush or Rice.
Musician Rice on the stage at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. At the afternoon of "Words and Music," the secretary of state performed the first movement of Dvorak's "Piano Quintet in A major, B. 155, op. 81" and the second movement of Brahms' "Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34."
In the summer, Rice traveled to China to visit the earthquake zone in Chengdu. It was yet another of those trips on which Rice embarks to gain friends from America.
Rice exercises with her personal trainer at her Watergate apartment twice a week. Her trainer is nicknamed, "Tommy the Tank," but Rice doesn't exactly need any outside motivation.
