Welcome to another special plague time I'm at home, addition of uncommon knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson.

The daughter of a Presbyterian minister and a school teacher,

Condoleezza Rice grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of

Denver, her master's degree from Notre Dame, and her doctorate again from the University of

Denver. She has served in many positions in academia and government, including as I mentioned just a moment ago as provost of Stanford and as Secretary of State.

And as of September 1st, Secretary Rice has become the new director of the Hoover Institution, the Public Policy Center at Stanford.

Kondy Rice, welcome.

Thank you, Pierre. Great to be with you. Kondyi the first question is more or less mandatory.

You and I have known each other for a number of years and if I may say so until September 1st, you had a wonderful life.

You taught at Stanford, you participated in a consulting company,

and you gave speeches, and you still had time to practice piano and play golf.

And now you have taken on a job that will involve endless fundraising, countless administrative tasks, attempting to lead some 200 fellows of the Hoover Institute.

I love our colleagues, I really do love them, but they're not all easy people. So the first question again is mandatory.

Why have you done this?

Well, Peter, maybe I should have had my headaches at them.

You left out that I also, of course,

I had a chance to be on the college football playoff committee and to chair a commission on basketball. Yes, life was very good. But in the final analysis, I had to ask myself, do I like where we are right now as a country and as a world?

And I had to say no. I think we have challenges and problems that are piling up that are challenging our values,

challenging our freedoms, challenging our prosperity, and most importantly challenging the sense of Americans in particular that equal opportunity and equal access are there for them.

And those challenges to the governance of free peoples suggest to me that we

need really good answers to a lot of the problems that we're facing. We need them to be based on solid and sound research, new ideas

that are fully explored, explored where the data takes us. And I thought there's no better place to do that than the Hoover Institution, a place that has a very solid foundation in the notion that free people's free markets prosperity and peace are to be sought going all the way

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