Condoleezza Rice on Race, Russia, Freedom and Why America’s Best Days Are Still Ahead

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is one of those pioneering American leaders whose story is for the history books. Born in the segregated south in the 1950s, Rice couldn’t step foot in certain movie theaters and restaurants when she was a little girl. By the time she stepped foot in the White House as a National Security Advisor and then Secretary of State, she was one of the most powerful people in the world—and the highest ranking black woman in the history of the United States. On today’s episode, a conversation with Secretary Rice, who now serves at the Director of Stanford's Hoover Institution, about the most pressing issues facing the country: the future of the GOP, the continued popularity of Donald Trump, the state of our democracy, the culture wars on race and identity politics, immigration, the rise of China, possible war in Russia … and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.6	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:30.3	I'm Barry Weiss, this is honestly, and my guest today at once needs no introduction and
0:36.2	also 20 pages of introduction.
0:39.0	I'll do my best.
0:39.8	Thank you.
0:40.8	Thank you. Thank you.
0:44.0	When I think of pioneering American leaders,
0:49.0	Condoleezza Rice is front and center in my mind.
0:52.0	Good evening, distinguished delegates.
0:55.5	Good evening, my fellow Americans.
0:59.7	There may be no one in public life quite like her.
1:02.4	A little girl grows up in Jim Pro Birmingham.
1:06.2	This is Birmingham. For a month the two communities Negro and White in Birmingham had been
1:12.3	building up to scenes to clashes like this.
1:15.0	The situation was perilously close to an explosion.
1:21.0	Her parents can't take her to a movie theater or to a restaurant.
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