As the administration of President George W. Bush prepared to leave office, it composed

detailed memoranda on foreign policy for the incoming Obama administration.

Now those memos have been collected in a new book entitled Handoff, the Bush administration's

Summing Up.

To discuss the book, former Secretary of State Candelisa Rice and former National Security

Adviser, Stephen Hadley, Uncommon Knowledge Now.

Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge, I'm Peter Robinson, born in Birmingham, Alabama, Candelisa

Rice wanted to become a concert pianist and ended up as Secretary of State.

Before reaching that position, she served as Provost of Stanford and during President

George W. Bush's first term as National Security Adviser, today Dr. Rice serves as

Director of the Hoover Institution, where we are filming this conversation.

A native of Toledo, Ohio, Stephen Hadley pursued a career that took him back and forth from

the private practice of law to government positions.

During President George W. Bush's first term, Mr. Hadley served as Dr. Rice's Deputy

National Security Adviser.

When she went to state, in the second term, Mr. Hadley became National Security Adviser

himself.

Mr. Hadley is the principal editor of Handoff.

As you note in your joint preface to Handoff, quoting you both, President Bush did not

take off as intending to be a wartime president, which of course brings us to September 11,

2001.

It is impossible to understand the Bush foreign policy without first grasping what that

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