No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington Books - Other Recommended Reading the shield has 13 red

the shield has 13 red and white stripes (representing the original 13 colonies) with a blue bar above it (it symbolizes the uniting of the 13 colonies and represents congress)

From Taft as the first president to throw the "first pitch" on opening day in 1910 to Obama's "Go Sox" scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014

50 white stars surround the eagle in a circle (on a deep blue field)

enriching both their office and the nation

Bush from the onset of the global war on terror

No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington Books - Other Recommended Reading the shield has 13 redFrom the former national security advisor and Secretary of State comes a sharp and penetrating. . . Reminder that foreign policy choices facing the United States are complex and difficult, with no easy solutions (The Washington Post). A native of Birmingham, Alabama, who overcame the racism of the civil rights era to become a brilliant academic and expert on foreign affairs, Condoleezza Rice first distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush