In the photo: National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice accepts the President's Award at the 33rd annual NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles February 23, 2002
Condoleezza Rice won an award in 2011 in the category of Outstanding Literary Work Youth/Teens for 'A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice.'"Rich in tradition and heritage, but still in constant renewal, literature is probably the oldest of our forms of artistic expression. That it remains a vibrant creative field of endeavor is seen in the wealth of talent found among this year's Award candidates, NAACP website says on Literature.Literature Winners for 2011 are:* Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction: Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan * Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander * Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson * Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Auto-Biography: You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles by Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. * Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional: A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life by Antwone Fisher * Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry: 100 Best African-American Poems by Nikki Giovanni * Outstanding Literary Work – Children: My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Authors), Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) * Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice REUTERS/Jim Ruymen JR

Dick Cheney promised his new memoir In My Time would have heads exploding all over Washington.

A major head did explode yesterday, so to speak.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice disputed Cheney's claim that she tearfully admitted he had been right about not issuing a public apology over a statement made by then-president George Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address.

Cheney wrote: Rice realized sometime later that she had made a major mistake by issuing a public apology. She came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right. Unfortunately, the damage was done.

Rice denied being tearful about this, or anything else, for that matter.

It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it? Rice said in an interview with Reuters. I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him.

Rice also shot down Cheney's claim that she misled Bush about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.

I kept the president fully and completely informed about every in and out of the negotiations with the North Koreans, Rice told Reuters. You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president. You know, I don't appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies.

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