Is Condi The Problem?

AS CRITICS ACCUSE THE BUSH TEAM OF BUNGLING THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM, TIME TAKES AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER

Sometimes, you just have to leave your mentor behind. In an interview with TIME in August 2001, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said her "model" for the job was Brent Scowcroft, the only person to serve in the post under two Presidents, and the man who, in 1989, had brought Rice from Stanford University to work with him in the White House of George H.W. Bush. Scowcroft was self-effacement personified. For most of his time in office, he would not have been recognized by tourists squeezing their faces between the bars of the north fence of the White House. Indeed, at...

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