Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

==Early political career==
In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Rice served as special assistant to the director of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]].

From 1989 through March 1991 (the period of the fall of [[Berlin Wall]] and the final days of the [[Soviet Union]]), she served in President [[George H. W. Bush]]'s administration as director, and then senior director, of Soviet and East European affairs in the National Security Council, and a special assistant to the president for national security affairs. In this position, Rice wrote what would become known as the "[[Chicken Kiev speech]]" in which Bush advised the [[Verkhovna Rada]], Ukraine's parliament, against [[Declaration of Independence of Ukraine|independence]]. She also helped develop Bush's and Secretary of State [[James Baker]]'s policies in favor of [[German reunification]]. She impressed Bush, who later introduced her to Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], as the one who "tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union."<ref>{{cite news |first=Steve |last=Kettmann |author-link=Steve Kettmann |title=Bush's secret weapon |url=https://www.salon.com/2000/03/20/rice_3/ |work=[[Salon.com]] |date=May 20, 2000 |access-date=November 3, 2008 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022953/https://www.salon.com/2000/03/20/rice_3/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1991, Rice returned to her teaching position at Stanford, although she continued to serve as a consultant on the former Soviet Bloc for numerous clients in both the public and private sectors. Late that year, [[California Governor|California governor]] [[Pete Wilson]] appointed her to a bipartisan committee that had been formed to draw new state legislative and congressional districts in the state.

In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender–Integrated Training in the Military.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/rice-bio.html |website=The White House, President George W. Bush |via=[[National Archives]]}}</ref>

During George W. Bush's [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 presidential election]] campaign, Rice took a one-year leave of absence from Stanford University to serve as his foreign policy advisor. The group of advisors she led called itself [[the Vulcans]] in honor of the monumental [[Vulcan statue]], which sits on a hill overlooking her hometown of Birmingham, [[Alabama]]. Rice would later go on to give a [[s:Remarks by Condoleezza Rice at the 2000 Republican National Convention|noteworthy speech]] at the [[2000 Republican National Convention]]. The speech asserted that "... &nbsp;America's armed forces are not a global police force. They are not the world's [[9-1-1|911]]."<ref name="rice at rnc"/><ref name = "Time 20070221 CwT">{{cite magazine |title=Exclusive Interview: Conversation with Terror |url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054517,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=January 11, 1999 |access-date=November 3, 2008 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823022953/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054517,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rice.html |title=Republican National Convention: Remarks |first=Condoleezza |last=Rice |date=August 1, 2000 |via=sbc.edu |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617133550/http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rice.html |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>