A7 NATIONAL A12-24 Priorities Foreshadowed As Bush Assembles Team Presidenamedect George W. Bushisamed his longtime foreign policy tutor, Condoleezza Rice, to be his national security adviser.
She was his private foreign policy tutor, the person, Mr. Bush once said, who "can explain to me foreign policy matters in a way I can understand".
President-elect George W. Bush today named his longtime foreign policy tutor, Condoleezza Rice, to be his national security adviser and made two other key staff appointments before flying to Washington tonight with a list of potential cabinet nominees in hand.
"Here's what I want to do," he said to Ms. Rice, a 46-year-old former Stanford University academic and Russia expert who was Mr. Bush's foreign policy tutor in the campaign.
Ms. Rice gently bantered back, the official said, but then concluded, " 'Now, look, it's the right time to do it.' " Condoleezza Rice began her relationship with George W. Bush as the foreign policy tutor who educated the little-traveled 2000 presidential candidate in the complexities of a world more dangerous than either of them knew.
She began her relationship with Mr. Bush as foreign policy tutor in his 2000 campaign, and friends say she both helped to shape his views and -- especially after Sept. 11 -- came to anticipate his own goals and wishes, aligning herself with him in a process that often seemed nonverbal.
I guess, as with most things McCain, we'll have to rely on hearsay or, in this case, the word of Palin's foreign policy tutor.
Mr. Wolfowitz, an assistant secretary of state for Asia in the Reagan administration, has close ties to Mr. Bush, having served as one of his main foreign policy tutors during the presidential campaign.
Compared, for example, with Condoleezza Rice, who had been the candidate's foreign-policy tutor and spent her weekends grafted to the president's side, or to Dick Cheney, Powell had not really been there.
Mostafa Sobhy, 32, a pharmacology lecturer, said his salary depended on tutoring foreign students at his university.
