Hot! Condoleezza Rice Regrets Vacationing

In the woman fresh memoir, ex - Secretary involving State Condoleezza Rice echos on your ex determination to take a new holiday getaway at that time associated with Hurricane Katrina, a move that she now identifies when tone-deaf.

As Katrina approached the particular Gulf Coast, Rice has been on its way out of nine months involving travel in order to 46 countries.

When friends invited the woman for you to New York for that Michael Chertoff to request whenever there were something your lady could do. Chertoff mentioned the relationship appeared to be very bad, which he / she d contact in the event your dog needed anything.

So Rice went to be able to find the musical humor Spamalot. The following morning, the lady gone buying at the developer boot store Ferragamo.

When your woman made a comeback to be able to the girl hotel, this airwaves were filled with upsetting pics out of New Orleans, Rice wrote. And the particular fronts involving the vast majority of people today in distress were black. I believed without delay in which I should not possess left Washington.

Apparently Rice vertisements chief connected with employees along with agreed.

I m coming home, Rice shared with her chief connected with staff members Brian Gunderson. Yeah. You d greater accomplish that, this individual replied.

Bush had the same result immediately after Rice labeled to inform him your woman was sawing her trip short.

Mr. President, I m coming back. I don t discover how considerably I can easily do, but many of us sort have some sort of competition problem, the girl recalls saying.

Yeah. Why don t you can occur back? Bush replied.

I essentially hadn big t estimated in which through the president, Rice wrote. That verts odd, I thought. He ve had happen to be thus insistent that I move and obtain several rest. He ersus truly worried.

Shortly after, Rice saw in which her "Spamalot" hike possessed turn out to be a new head line about the Drudge Report.

sitting at this time there scolding average joe with regard to obtaining been thus tone-deaf, your woman wrote. I wasn t simply just the secretary with State with liability intended for dangerous affairs; I seemed to be the particular highest-ranking black inside the administration and also a critical consultant for the president. What had I been thinking?

kim.geiger@latimes.com