Susan Rice, leaving the administration, talks of what's possible in a divided nation
NPR's Steve Inskeep interviews Rice as she leaves her job as top domestic policy adviser to President Biden. Rice says that on divisive subjects, the best hope was often to take the least bad option.
Susan Rice is stepping down from her post as President Biden's chief domestic policy adviser. It's the latest of her several turns in government.
During the Obama administration, Rice held high-profile foreign policy positions, including national security adviser. In a memoir, she wrote about President Barack Obama's choice not to bomb Syria in 2013: "There were only bad options and worse ones."
Rice tells NPR that something similar has been true about domestic issues during the
