The former GOP governor also writes about a 2003 White House meeting with Karl Rove in which the top GOP strategist told him the recall would not happen and instead introduced the actor to then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice as his pick to run for California governor in 2006. Schwarzenegger felt snubbed. He asks, “How could Rove have been so wrong?” Rove’s office said he was traveling Friday and could not be reached for comment. Rice’s chief of staff at Stanford University, Georgia Godfrey, said Rice cannot recall “any conversation on this subject.