Condoleezza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush Deliver Remarks at an International Women's Day Event

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Condoleezza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush Deliver Remarks at an International Women's Day Event

FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH AND SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE DELIVER REMARKS AT AN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT

MARCH 8, 2005

SPEAKERS: LAURA BUSH, FIRST LADY

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE

[*] RICE: Thank you very much.

Thank you, Paula, for that kind introduction. I also want to thank Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney. I'd like to thank special assistant to the president Sharin Tahir-Kheli for helping today's event to come about. Without the courage and the strength and the daily attention that these folks give to this, we would not be able to put these programs together.

I also would like to thank Andrew Natsios, the USAID administrator, and our own assistant secretary for education and cultural affairs, Pat Harrison, who is here.

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