I’ve always thought a little bit that my father liked some of the pride and some of the toughness of both black radicals, although he himself was a very conservative man. And he invited Stokely Carmichael to speak in a speaker’s series that he had, first at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa when he was still a student, Daddy was, and then later at the University of Denver. He was very interested in the whole range of alternatives in black politics at that time. Well, my dad, who was himself a conservative Republican man, was also very interested in the contestation of ideas. HH: Explain to the audience how you came to know Stokely Carmichael, the man who invented black power?ĬR: That’s right. Probably the most bracing, on, is a picture of you, your mom and your dad, riding in a car with Stokely Carmichael singing Motown. But I want to begin with a couple of the bracing revelations in the book.
HH: It really is, and I look forward to talking a little bit about you and both of them. And so I thought it would be good to really tell their story. But I felt that at this time, as I was thinking about what I wanted to write when I left government, that I’d been asked the question so many times, well how did you get to be who you are, and I thought well, you have to know John and Angelina Rice. You know, we’re nice, Southern Presbyterians. Was it difficult for you? Or is it just something you were brought up not to do?ĬR: Well, it was something that we didn’t talk a lot about ourselves. HH: Well, I shared a panel with Karen Hughes on Friday, and I was telling her how much I had enjoyed this book, my wife had enjoyed it, and she told me that prior to 2000, everyone in the Bush team was urging you to kind of tell people more about your story, that you’d never done that before.
And the most heartening comments really have been from people who see glimpses of their own parents in this memoir. One never knows how people are going to respond to what is essentially a personal memoir, but I’m very glad. Are you surprised by the reaction it’s soliciting from people?ĬR: Well, I am a bit. HH: Congratulations on Extraordinary Ordinary People.
Rice, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, great to talk to you. Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State.
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