Condi Rice was a Chevron Director?

Question

Condi goes from the Chevron director to a high level job in the white house! Then Oil profits are off the charts! I smell a rat.
http://www.allbusiness.com/specialty-businesses/796969-1.html

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/printer_080204F.shtml

Why is this ok with so many people? Chevron is a huge corporation driven by profits. There are thousands of people better qualified to work in the white house "for the people, by the people"!

Answer 1

Your absolutely right ! Chevron , Enron , Haliburton and who knows how many others have bought and paid this unqualified administration's way into office ! Bush is the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. His largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of his best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.
Bush used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure his success with the U.S. Supreme Court during the election decision. He protected his friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip- offs in history.
Bush is the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election). I'm personally floored at how this administration could garner anyones trust .

Answer 2

Condoleezza Rice was a Chevron Director from 1991 until January 15, 2001 when she was transferred by President George Bush Jr. to National Security Adviser. Previously she was Senior Director, Soviet Affairs, National Security Council, and Special Assistant to President George Bush Sr. from 1989 to 1991.

Another Chevron Corporation giant in the Bush administration is Vice President Dick Cheney. Vice President Cheney was Chairman and Chief Executive of Dallas based Halliburton Corporation, the world's largest oil field services company with multi-billion dollar contracts with oil corporations including Chevron. Lawrence Eagleburger, a seasoned Bush counselor who held top State Department posts under George Bush Sr., is a director of Halliburton Corporation.

Answer 3

It is a good thing that oil companies are making a lot of money.
They will use that money to find more oil, which will bring
oil prices down in the future. Crude oil prices are
high because of the growing economies of China and
India, and all of the restrictions on drilling in the US.
You can't blame the oil companies or Condi for the stupid situation we are in now. The main reason oil prices have been falling recently is because the US economy is slowing, which will also slow the economies in China and India.

Answer 4

Bush cronies are all oil people. Cheney was with an oil rig company.Chief of Staff Card was a GM President. etc etc. Big oil and auto companies run this country. They want to increase the demand and our dependency on oil and easy access of oil (Iraq). WHy do they deny global warming? WHy do they hate and fight the expansion of electric mass transit? Why do they fight better gas mileage laws?

Answer 5

That is only one very small part of her resume. To be fair, you have to disclose more of the story. It goes far and beyond just being on the board of directors of an oil company.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she was a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control from 1981-1986 (currently the Center for International Security And Cooperation), a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, *** laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.

Answer 6

Well the world is not disneyland. Corporations control America and this is not news.

And P.S, if you really are as hot as the picture shows, there is nothing for to worry about.

Answer 7

So, anyone who has ever worked for an oil company cannot hold a high level job in the White House?
I think Ms. Rice is one of the most intelligent, innovative and loyal people we have in government service, and her integrity is unimpeachable.

Answer 8

Yes, you just can't get enough big business in the Bush Administration.

Answer 9

Melaine - buy stock in the company then - if you feel that way.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 10

What's really scary is that people are suggesting she should run for President! Can you see her as President?