Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes a statement to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes a statement to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice finishes making a statement to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, after briefing President George W. Bush on the situation in Gaza and the Middle East. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008 file photo, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reacts during the announcement of the resignation of Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs C. David Welch at the State Department in Washington. Rice on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, kept up steady U.S. calls for a "durable and sustainable," but not necessarily immediate, cease-fire to end Israel's assault on Gaza and rocket attacks by Palestinian militants based there. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

In this May 14, 2006 file photo, President George W. Bush, center, his wife, Laura,left, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The two most influential women in Bush's White House - first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Rice - are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the worst in history. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File))

In this Jan. 15, 2007, file photo released by Saudi News Agency, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, right, meets with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after her arrival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah has presented Rice with gifts on various occasions like a ruby and diamond necklace with matching earrings, bracelet and ring worth an estimated $165,000 in July 2007, and a estimated $170,000 flower petal motif necklace the Saudi monarch gave to Rice in 2005, which the State Department says was not previously disclosed. (AP Photo/Saudi News Agency, File)

In this photograph provided by "Meet the Press," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a taping of "Meet the Press" at the NBC studios in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)