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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black member of the Bush administration, congratulated Barack Obama on Wednesday on his history- making achievement in securing the Democratic nomination.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino extended President Bush’s congratulations.
Speaking at the State Department, Rice said: “The United States of America is an extraordinary country. It is a country that has overcome many, many, now years, decades, actually a couple of centuries of trying to make good on its principles. And I think what we are seeing is an extraordinary expression of the fact that ‘We the people’ is beginning to mean all of us.”
