The Washington Post April 22, 2004
Wild Rice
By Al Kamen
There's continuing buzz over a comment national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made at what was apparently an off-the-record Washington power dinner with New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. and other Timespeople at the home of Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman.
Rice, according to an account in this week's New York magazine, at one point said: "As I was telling my husb . . . " then stopped and said, "As I was telling President Bush. . . ."
Eyebrows jumped; jaws dropped. There was a slight pause in the chatter. But we're also thinking that while the first phrase was correctly reported, there's a possibility the second one did not immediately follow. In which case, it's not at all clear whom or what Rice, who is single, may have been talking about.
Some speculate she may have a husband hidden somewhere or in her past. Our best guess is she had started to say, "As I was telling my Hezbollah friends," and then stopped, not wanting reporters to know she has dealings with members of a terrorist group.
By Al Kamen
There's continuing buzz over a comment national security adviser Condoleezza Rice made at what was apparently an off-the-record Washington power dinner with New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. and other Timespeople at the home of Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman.
Rice, according to an account in this week's New York magazine, at one point said: "As I was telling my husb . . . " then stopped and said, "As I was telling President Bush. . . ."
Eyebrows jumped; jaws dropped. There was a slight pause in the chatter. But we're also thinking that while the first phrase was correctly reported, there's a possibility the second one did not immediately follow. In which case, it's not at all clear whom or what Rice, who is single, may have been talking about.
Some speculate she may have a husband hidden somewhere or in her past. Our best guess is she had started to say, "As I was telling my Hezbollah friends," and then stopped, not wanting reporters to know she has dealings with members of a terrorist group.
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