by Susan Rice
U.N. ambassador, 172
U.S. embassy in Khartoum, 157–58
war and famine in, 200
Sullivan, Jake, 352, 357, 408, 412
Summers, Larry, 200, 201
Sumter, S.C., 34
Swing, William, 198
Syria, 4, 265, 279, 341 chemical weapons and, 297, 362, 364–66
Chemical Weapons Convention and, 365
civil war in, 297
Iran and, 366, 367, 368
ISIS and, 297, 366
Kurds and, 423
al-Nusra Front, 367
Obama and, 341, 362–69, 450–51
Russia and, 297–99, 364–65, 367, 368, 369, 423
SR and policy decisions on, 153, 297–98, 362–69
Trump and, 365–66, 423
U.N. resolution on chemical weapons removal, 365, 386
U.S. humanitarian aid, 367
U.S. operations against ISIS in, 420, 422–23, 451
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), 420
Talbott, Strobe, 214
Taliban, 391, 392, 394–95
Talwar, Puneet, 261–62
Tanzania, 348 U.S. embassy bombing, 186–91
terrorism Afghanistan and, 394–95
Africa and threat of, 171
Africa’s Sahel and, 282, 293
Al Qaeda and 9/11 terrorist attacks, 135, 206–11
Al Shabab, 379
Benghazi attack, 311, 312–13
in Brussels, 420
Counter-terrorism Support Group, 187
East Africa embassy bombings, 4, 186–91, 306–7, 325
ISIS and, 293, 297, 404, 418, 420
Paris bombings, 420, 421
San Bernadino massacre, 420
Sudan and, 156–57, 208, 326
Syria and, 366
U.S. political division and, 479
World Trade Center bombing, 1993, 156
Thomas, Mickalene, 249
Thomas, Stanton, 250, 302
Thorning-Schmidt, Helle, 379
Tibbetts, Jim, 80–81
To End a War (Holbrooke), 183
Torsella, Joe, 104, 111
Toulmin, Catherine, 93
Touré, Kadiatou, 462
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), 242–43, 418, 434, 451, 457
Trudeau, Justin, 457
Trump, Donald, 5, 298, 453–60 Access Hollywood tape, 444
Afghanistan and, 394–95
briefing of, queries about by Obama administration, 5
China and, 439, 457
domestic policy divisions and, 477–78
FBI investigation and, 449
Flynn appointment, 457–60
Inaugural Address, 8
inauguration of, 1, 2, 7
Iran nuclear deal and, 417–18
ISIS and, 423
Israel and, 432–33
Kim Jong Un and, 477
McCain as critic, 474
national security decision-making process, 452
national security team, 456
Oval Office of, 460
Paris Climate Change Agreement and, 418
Putin and, 477
Russia and, 400, 448, 449
Russia collusion allegations, 5–6, 468, 470–71
Russian election interference and, 442, 445, 447, 448
Sessions appointment, 457
South Sudan and, 397
spying on, 468
SR accused by, 470
SR and, 382–83
SR and NSC transition team, 455–60
SR’s opinion of, 8, 468, 477
SR unmasking controversy, 468–70
“Steele Dossier” and, 448
Syria and, 365–66, 423
TPP and, 418, 457
Ukraine and, 400
Tunisia, 279, 282
Turabi, Hassan al-, 158
Turkey, 253, 268–69, 366, 421, 423, 459, 477
Turnbull, Malcolm, 457
Tuskegee Airmen, 36–37
Tuskegee Army Air Field, 21, 29
Tuskegee Veterans Hospital, 28
Tutu, Desmond, 104
Twaddell, Bill, 166–68
Uganda, 159, 160, 163, 172, 396 atrocities in, 173
Bill Clinton visit, with SR, 175
Congo War and, 193, 195
LRA, 158, 173
SR and Albright’s visit to, 173
U.S. embassy threatened, 187
Ukraine, 398–401, 449
Underriner, John, 193–94
UNICEF, 212
United Kingdom, 114–15, 449 Ebola epidemic and, 403
Iran sanctions and, 266–67
Libya, Qaddafi, and, 280, 281, 284, 291, 292
Obama trip to (2008), 95
SR as Rhodes Scholar in, 103–4, 108–17
Syria and, 297, 362–63
as UNSC P5 member, 259
United Nations (U.N., UNGA), 136 Albright as U.S. ambassador, 134, 137, 161, 357
anti-Israel bias, 252, 253, 254
Bolton as U.S. ambassador, 241, 243, 245, 259
Clinton administration policy on peacekeeping, 141–42
convention to support disabled persons, 244
Correspondents’ Dinner, 334
Ebola epidemic and, 403
General Assembly opening, 300
Goldstone Report and, 253
Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador, 182, 195, 197, 199
hot conflict issues, Clinton era, 136
Human Rights Council, 244, 245, 246, 253
Iran nuclear deal and, 412, 413
ISIS and, 301
LGBT rights and, 244
“the month of Africa,” 197
Obama and building diplomatic coalitions, 243
Obama’s approach to, 245
Open Government Partnership, 301
Palestine’s status and, 253
PDD-25 and, 142–43
Qaddafi at, 301–2
“right to food” issue, 244
Rwanda genocide and, 148–49
Soderberg and, 119
Somalia conflict and, 136–41
SR as U.S. ambassador, 10–12, 13, 87, 237–337
SR’s analysis of role in Somalia, 140
SR’s NSC position under Clinton, 132–34, 136, 154
Sudan and, 159, 301
United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UAMIR, UNAMIR II), 145, 147, 148
U.N. Millennium Development Goals, 244
U.S. Mission building, 259, 261, 262, 276, 281, 290
U.S. president’s meetings, speeches, receptions, 300–301
U.S. status in, 2009, 243–44
women’s advancement and, 244
World Conference on Racism, 253
United Nations Security Council (UNSC), 259 African affairs, 196, 269–77
African trips, 269
Brazil and Turkey on, 268–69
Côte d’Ivoire and, 269–70
Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict and, 181, 183
EU-3, 266–67
Goldstone Report and, 253
Holbrooke and, 196–98, 199
Iran sanctions, 264, 266–69, 413–14
Israel-Turkey conflict, 253
Libya as member, 301
Libya resolution, 278, 280, 282–87
nonpermanent members, 252
North Korea sanctions, 255–60, 266
Obama summit on nuclear proliferation, 301
P5, 259, 264–66, 285
P5+1, 264, 411
presidential statement (PRST) and, 254, 256
rotating African seats on, 159
rotating presidency, 299–300
Russia, China “double-veto” on Syria, 298
Rwanda genocide and, 146–47
Somalia conflict and, 137–38
South Sudan and, 396–97
SR and Obama’s agenda, 241–42, 243
SR as chair, 300
SR at sessions, 240
Sudan and, 157, 270–77
Syria and, 264, 297, 367
Syria chemical weapon rem
oval and, 365, 386
U.S. abstains on anti–Israeli settlement vote, 432–33
University of California, Berkeley, 36, 44 International House, 44–45
SR’s father’s PhD, 32
Stanford-Berkeley game, 1982, 94, 98–99
University of Chicago Law School, 17
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), 56, 192, 346, 387 Ebola epidemic, 401, 402, 406
Gross imprisoned in Cuba and, 408–9
Emmett Rice and, 47
Gayle Smith and, 177, 195, 385
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ebola epidemic and, 401–7
U.S. Congress African Growth and Opportunity Act, 176, 201
Benghazi investigations, 311, 313, 337
Biden and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 165
constraining the President, 139
Ebola epidemic appropriations, 406
embassy appropriations, 190
“Gang of Eight,” 444–45
Iran nuclear deal and, 415–16
Iran sanctions, 267–68, 269
Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, 210
Menendez and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 158–59
Netanyahu joint address, Mar. 2015, 414–15
Obama as junior senator, 19, 95
Obama’s Cuba policy and, 408, 409, 410
policy on U.N. peacekeeping, 154
Somalia and, 138–39, 141
SR as page, 83–86
SR’s confirmation as assistant secretary of state, 163–64
SR’s confirmation as U.N. ambassador, 239–40
SR’s secretary of state candidacy and, 323–25
Sudan sanctions and, 158
Thompson-Markward Hall, 84
U.N. debt appropriations, 199
U.S. military action in Syria and, 362, 363–64, 365
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) African Center for Strategic Studies (war college), 202
China and, 436
Ebola epidemic and, 402–3
Rwanda genocide, 147, 149
SR and proposals from, 372–73
U.S. in Afghanistan and, 394
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). See also Johnson, Jeh; Monaco, Lisa Chinese cyber theft and, 438
Ebola epidemic, 404–6, 406
Russian interference in 2016 election and, 443, 444
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), 156, 437 Obama and, 5, 6
Trump-Russia collusion allegations, 5, 449
U.S. Department of State (DOS) Africa Bureau, 144, 157, 169, 190, 191, 198, 201–2
African debt relief and, 200
African embassies threatened and SR’s closing of, 190–91
Art in Embassies program, 249
diversifying workforce, 429–30
East Africa embassy bombings, 186–91, 206
evacuation of U.S. personnel from Rwanda, 144–45
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, 249
leaking by, 246
Medical Unit psychiatrist, 188
Monrovia, drawdown of U.S. embassy staff, 200
Operations Center, 186, 187, 188
risks taken by Foreign Service Officers, 184
Rwanda conflict as genocide, 148
South Sudan and, 395–96
SR and Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict, 177–84
SR as assistant secretary of state for African affairs, 13, 59, 152, 162–65, 166–204
SR in Nigeria and death of Abiola, 166–69
SR’s AF Front Office and direct reports, 169–70
Sudan embassy closing, 157–58
as supportive of SR as U.N. ambassador, 245
U.S.-Nigeria Bilateral Commission, 203
U.S. policy on U.N. peacekeeping operations and, 142
vulnerable embassies of, 187
U.S. Department of the Treasury (USDT), African debt relief and, 200–201
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 201–2
U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), 332 agencies of, 309
Benghazi attack talking points by, 11, 308–15, 318, 323, 324, 332, 335
Benghazi update, 315
Chinese cyber theft and, 439
diversifying workforce, 429
DNI (director of national intelligence), 309
DNI Oct. 7 statement on Russian email hacking, 443, 444
Iran nuclear deal and, 417
ISIS in Iraq and, 418
Mosul Dam threat and, 422
Russian election interference and, 442–43, 447, 449
SR’s unmasking requests, 469–70
“Steele Dossier,” 448
U.S. in Afghanistan and, 394
U.S.-Nigeria Bilateral Commission, 203
U.S.-South Africa Binational Commission, 202
U.S. Supreme Court Affordable Care Act and, 427
same-sex marriage and, 427
Vanity Fair “The Osama Files” (Rose), 207–9, 210–11, 326
SR rebuttal to Rose article, 208
Vera, Juana, 408
Vietnam War, 53
Votel, Joe, 422
Waldorf-Astoria Towers (WAT) apartment, 249–51
Walker, Alice, 101 The Color Purple, 101
Walker, John T., 89
Wall Street Journal, 318 SR and unmasking, 468
Warner, Mark, 416
Washington, Booker T., 33
Washington, D.C., 52–53, 83 Black Student Fund, 100–101
Boulé in, 225
Forest Hills neighborhood, 50
Rock Creek Park, 54
SR and July 4th in, 349
SR’s family in Shepherd Park, 54–55
SR’s home in Adams Morgan neighborhood, 137, 206
SR’s home in Kent neighborhood, 206
as SR’s hometown, 13, 41, 49, 52–53, 82–83
Washington National Cathedral, 50, 79–80, 89
Washington Post, 321 Carney op-ed in, 210
leaked story on Chinese sanctions, 437
Webster, Meridith, 330
Weems, Carrie Mae, 249
Weinstein, Jeremy, 327
Westbrooks, Ticey, 226, 288, 289
White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 381
White House Situation Room, 143, 157, 388, 401, 415, 419, 422, 429, 439, 441, 460 Afghanistan and, 393–94
Brennan meets SR on Russian election interference, 441
John F. Kennedy Conference Room, 388
K. T. McFarland and, 459
Morsi coup meeting in, 348–49
Principals Committee meetings in, 283, 356, 388, 415, 419–20, 422
Putin phone calls and, 398–99
Reagan and, 459
Somalia crisis and, 137, 138
SR and, 1, 6, 161
WikiLeaks, 444, 445, 449
Williams, Brian, 330
Williamson, Ruth Ann, 81, 93
Wisner, Frank, 147
Withers, Anne, 357
Wolff, Alejandro, “Alex,” 241, 248, 253, 262
Wolpe, Howard, 191–99, 374 advice to SR, 191–92
Congo war and, 193–99
Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement, 195, 199
Wonder, Stevie, 232, 354
Wood, John, 81
Woods, Tyrone S., 306–7
Worden, Andrea, 87–88, 116–17, 125
World Bank, 303
Xi, Jinping, 381, 435, 436, 437–39, 440, 457
Yale University, 91, 92, 102, 227, 228
Yang, Jiechi, 434
Yanukovych, Viktor, 399
Yates, Sally, WH briefing, Jan. 5, 2017, 5–6
Yemen, 279, 450
Young Leaders initiatives, 385
Zarif, Mohammed Javad, 412, 414
Zhang, Yesui, 257–58, 266, 438
Zients, Jeffrey, 374
Zimbabwe, 118, 119–20, 132, 160, 163, 172, 173–74, 193
Zoellick, Robert, 303
Zuma, Jacob, 286
Zuniga, Ricardo, 408, 409
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