She had challenged the very premise of a commission of which he was chairman, and he approached her after the lecture. When George Bush was elected president in 1988, Scowcroft became national security adviser and recruited Rice. She was never a top tier policy aide in the White House, but her timing was perfect. The Berlin Wall collapsed, the Soviet Union was crumbling, and she was part of the team that developed U.S. policy. Burned out after two years in Washington, she returned to Stanford.
Rice responds that every scholar has to specialize in something.
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