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Jet, Oct 22, 2001 by Simeon Booker

Confidential: Emerging as one of President George W. Bush's most trusted advisers is National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, according to the Baltimore Sun Newspaper. Rice actually was the one who phoned Bush of the terrorist attack. Even though others have more experience in foreign relations and a longer record of personal association, Rice is described by the newspaper as having the president's "ear and confidence," and being one of the few insiders not from his Texas clique ...

Seeing the smoke rise from the Pentagon after hearing a low-flying plane, Arlington, VA, fire woman Andrea Kaiser drove her fire truck directly to the building and was one of the first on the scene. She told reporters, "They never knew what hit them."... After being supported by two presidents (Bill Clinton and George W. Bush) to become the first Black on the 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Roger L. Gregory of Richmond, VA, was sworn in and received a memento from Virginia Sen. George Allen. It was a framed Senate vote tally showing his 93-1 Senate confirmation victory. The court covers Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, and Maryland ... Now that Jackson McDonald of Florida has been nominated as the U. S. envoy to Gambia, friends are concerned about a future post for former ambassador George Haley, whose brother, Alex Haley, wrote the bestselling book Roots. George, a longtime Republican, has not been reassigned.