Detoured off of the road to perdition

How Critical Thinking Saved a Life

“   Rice proudly voted for Democrat Jimmy Carter. Then everything changed. "I loved Carter's story, the first president from Dixie," says Rice. "But (in the late '70s) I was studying and visiting the Soviet Union. And when they invaded Afghanistan, Carter said he suddenly understood what the Soviets were all about. And I thought, 'Who did you think you were dealing with?' I knew what that place was. So I found myself attracted to Ronald Reagan's policies, and that's how it started." Becoming Condoleezza Rice