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Rice: Obama election encourages people worldwide

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history.
/ Source: The Associated Press

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president was a key moment in history.

In an interview on CBS' "Sunday Morning," Rice says America isn't "race-blind." But she says the election of an African-American is "enormously heartening."

Rice left segregated Alabama to eventually become the first African-American female to be secretary of state. She warns that the United States still has problems with race. But she calls Obama's victory an "enormous step forward."

Rice says she plans to write at least two books when she gets back to Stanford, one about foreign policy and one about her parents.

Rice says she isn't ready to think about how history will judge her tenure as secretary of state.

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