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Article: State Department warms up to Rice as likely new boss.(NATION)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2005
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Byline: Nicholas Kralev, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The offices and corridors of the State Department were unusually quiet Nov. 16, the day President Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser for the past four years, to be secretary of state.
"It's not because we don't like her, but because we don't know what exactly to expect," one official said.
Just over two months later, attitudes have changed, and officials at the State Department now speak with enthusiasm about their expected new boss, who appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today for confirmation hearings.
"She is very solid, and we all have been ...