2001年1月11日中午,当“做梦也没有想到”的赵小兰——传统基金会亚洲研究中心顾问委员会主席——得知布什将提名自己为新政府的劳工部长时,她只有两个小时的准备时间了。急着赶同家中换衣的赵小兰,一边忙着给丈夫和父亲打电话,一边构思着自己的讲稿,她的眼前浮现出自己47年来走过的道路。 Zhao Xiaolan, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Asia Foundation for Traditional Foundations, learned at noon on January 11, 2001 that she would nominate himself as Minister of Labor for the new government, she had only two Hours of preparation time. Zhao Xiaolan, who was in a hurry to change clothes in the same house, was busy calling her husband and father while thinking of his speech. Her eyes had emerged the path that she had walked through for 47 years.