Rice salutes family in making transition from Bush adviser

Saturday, January 29, 2005

WASHINGTON -- America's first black woman secretary of state took the ceremonial oath of office Friday surrounded by family and friends, some who had traveled from her native Alabama, as well as the president, first lady and a Supreme Court justice.

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