Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice indignantly refuted Dick Cheney's assertion in his memoir, "In My Time," that she "tearfully admitted" that the administration should not have issued an apology about a claim in W's 2003 State of the Union address. She says she did say Cheney was right about the media response to the apology about Iraq's putative search for uranium for nuclear arms. But she contends she never came to Cheney "tearfully" about anything.
Reuters reports that she also says the former veep is wrong in saying that she misinformed Bush regarding North Korea. Reuters goes on to quote Rice as saying that "some of the things that he said about his colleagues are not in keeping with the high respect that I have always had for him. I think they do fall into the category of cheap shots."
Toward the end of the Reuters telephone interview, the reporter questioned Rice about whether or not she intended to be a Republican veep candidate in 2012. She replied "No, no, no. I am a happy university professor... We'll all find great candidates. I won't be one of them."
