Madeleine Albright

Diplomat and scholar of international relations who served as the first female US secretary of state.

When George W Bush was elected president in 2000, Albright slipped back comfortably into her role as a popular member of the establishment, greatly in demand as a speaker at conferences. Clinton appointed her in 1997, at the beginning of his second term. Madeleine Albright took a master’s degree, then a doctorate in international relations at Columbia University, New York, where Brzezinski was one of her teachers. The sanctions policy had been in place long before the Clinton administration, but the comment was not forgotten. When working a summer vacation shift at the Denver Post, she met a scion of one of the most powerful American newspaper dynasties of the time, Joseph Albright, descendant of the founder of the Chicago Tribune. They married in 1959. The truth seems to be that she was genuinely ignorant of her Jewish heritage.

As Clinton's top diplomat, Albright led US efforts to broker Israel-Palestinian, Israel-Syria peace; she described discovering her Jewish heritage late in ...

He appointed her as US ambassador to the UN in 1993. As secretary of state, she played a key role in persuading Clinton to go to war against the Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic over his treatment of Kosovar Albanians in 1999. Albright married journalist Joseph Albright, a descendant of Chicago’s Medill-Patterson newspaper dynasty, in 1959. They had three daughters and divorced in 1983. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of US government. Her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1939 as the Nazis took over their country, and she spent the war years in London. Albright’s parents converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1941. We are viewed in the Middle East as a colonial power and our motives are suspect.” Three of her Jewish grandparents died in concentration camps. She helped win Senate ratification of NATO’s expansion and a treaty imposing international restrictions on chemical weapons. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959. In 2013, she published “Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War,” a memoir tracing the Jewish heritage of her parents and the fate of 25 relatives she lost in the Holocaust. In a Washington Post interview, she likened the revelation of her Jewish past to being handed a gift to unwrap. Albright remained outspoken through the years.

America's grand foreign policy strategist told Albright that she was only the second immigrant to occupy that role. “Welcome to the fraternity,” said Kissinger.

Albright was the US representative to the UN and secretary of state under President Bill Clinton.

“Madeline Albright was one of my earliest lessons in the bankruptcy of identity politics. But she argued that the country did not pose an immediate threat to the US and called for keeping focus on defeating al-Qaeda. “It was a stupid statement. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future.” “We are heartbroken to announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th US Secretary of State and the first woman to hold that position, passed away earlier today. She was in the post until 2001.

Albright, who arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year-old refugee, became the first woman to serve as secretary of state. She died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

"So I went up to him and I said, 'Can you believe that a refugee is secretary of state?' " "She turned to me as a counselor and said, 'Could you organize the State Department to talk about Islam?' " Sherman said. "It was an indication of her ability to be political." "But it had nothing to do with her getting the job." "She was happy to wield it in her own way." "Madeleine said to him, 'When your government names a woman to head the delegation, I will spend considerable time with her as well.' " Albright, at 4 feet 10 inches tall, stood out in her cherry suit and pearls in the all-male group. Albright had a long and storied career in foreign policy, serving as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993-97 before reaching the pinnacle of diplomacy: secretary of state. "This all started when ... Saddam Hussein called me a serpent," Albright told NPR in 2009. "As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." It would never have happened, but I would have felt better about my own role in this." "She said, 'Where's Wonder Woman?' So they did a Wonder Woman comic book as well.

WASHINGTON — Madeleine Albright was the quintessential late 20th-century Jewish diplomat, haunted by the Holocaust and determined to use what tools her adopted ...

“The epitome of mensch in the best and broadest sense of the word.” That led to difficult questions: If Albright knew she was Jewish in 1993 or 1994, why did she not reveal it until 1997, when a newspaper was about to go public? “Maybe she was afraid that her stature would be diminished before her international colleagues if they knew of her Jewish roots. Maybe she felt her aspirations to become secretary of state would be jeopardized if her family history was confirmed.” Her optimism may have blinded her to how deeply embedded in Iran’s political culture was its resistance to compromise. Netanyahu planned a dramatic signal that he was ready to leave the talks. Albright, an early backer of Bill Clinton when he was a relatively unknown Arkansas governor, was his first U. N. ambassador, repayment in part for the money she helped raise for his campaign. She was behind Clinton’s decision to confront the Serbian military in 1999 as it bore down on Kosovo. Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic once told her, “Madam Secretary, you are not well informed.” Albright, whose father Josef Korbel, had served as a diplomat in Belgrade, countered, “Don’t tell me I’m uninformed — I lived here.” In 1998, at U. S.-mediated talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Wye River, Maryland, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was resisting concessions as Bill Clinton sought to advance the Oslo Accords Netanyahu had reviled. She lobbied for airstrikes against Serbian targets, once telling Colin Powell, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “What’s the point of having this superb military you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?” Powell, famous for his Vietnam-era-founded reluctance for military intervention, said the question nearly caused him an “aneurysm.” “This is cowardice.” She called State Department bureaucrats, whom she never fully trusted, “The White Boys.” Albright was adept at outmaneuvering statesmen — always men — who thought they knew much better than she did.

Madeleine Albright was the first woman to serve as secretary of state and was a role model for generations of girls and women. She died on Wednesday at age ...

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Hillary Clinton remembered former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "a great person and a wonderful friend to me and literally so many others," in ...

I regret that in the heat of the political campaign she got any pushback at all," Clinton said. Clinton served as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, the third woman to hold the role. When Albright repeated the phrase in support of Clinton's 2016 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, she received criticism from some quarters."

Ms Albright, who was the first woman in history to take the key foreign policy position, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

She also strongly criticised the Trump administration’s handling of immigration, drawing on her own experiences as a refugee. She reflected: “When I came here as a child, I will never forget sailing into New York Harbor for the first time and beholding the Statute of Liberty. I did not have to face refugee camps or the kind of danger that many refugees endure. She criticized President George W Bush for using “the shock of force” rather than alliances to foster diplomacy.

"Madeline Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, was a native of Prague who came to the United States as a refugee in 1948 and rose to the heights of American ...

At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the US government. The cause was cancer. She served under President Bill Clinton's administration from 1997 to 2001, making history for women in the US.

Longtime diplomat born in Prague was the first woman to serve as US secretary of state.

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female US secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, ...

Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died.

"I'm going to use it to the best of my ability in terms of making sure that democracy is our form of government and that those around the world that want to live in a democracy have a possibility to do so." In 2012, Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, who said her "toughness helped bring peace to the Balkans and paved the way for progress in some of the most unstable corners of the world." Following her tenure as secretary of state, Albright served as chairwoman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington from 2001 to her death, and she taught at Georgetown University. She was also a prolific author, penning several books, including a memoir in 2003 entitled "Madam Secretary." She also worked in the private sector for a time. And not just in terms of dealing with the issues, but in terms of dealing with the people, especially in hierarchical societies. When pressed by the commission about the argument that the Clinton administration lacked actionable intelligence, Albright said "we used every single tool we had in terms of trying to figure out what the right targets would be and how to go about dealing with what we knew." "I know that the American men and women in uniform are always prepared to sacrifice for freedom, democracy and the American way of life." Her experience growing up in communist Yugoslavia and then fleeing to the US made her a lifelong opponent of totalitarianism and fascism. "We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us," she told NBC in 1998. Late in Clinton's second term, Albright also participated in unsuccessful talks to foster peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, which were followed by a second explosion of violence in the region. She championed the expansion of NATO, pushed for the alliance to intervene in the Balkans to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing, sought to reduce the spread of nuclear weapons, and championed human rights and democracy across the globe. Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dies at 84Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dies at 84 Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died of cancer. Instead of paving Russia's path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin's infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance," Albright wrote.She was a face of US foreign policy in the decade between the end of the Cold War and the war on terror triggered by the September 11, 2001, attacks, an era heralded by President George H.W. Bush as a "new world order."

Madeleine Albright, the veteran diplomat who came to the United States as a child refugee, studied foreign languages and policy while raising a family on ...

“My thoughts are with Secretary Albright’s family as our nation pays deep gratitude for her years of service and remembers her life and legacy”. Her brilliance, passionate patriotism, and sharp wit made her a formidable presence on the world stage and her story inspired women and girls across the globe,” Mr Schumer said. “Secretary Albright understood keenly that the United States of America is a global power with global interests and global responsibilities and must act accordingly”. I genuinely enjoyed the times we got to work together on shared interests including the ongoing project of helping secure a democratic future for the people of Burma,” he said. Ms Albright returned to academia after Mr Carter’s 1980 election loss to Ronald Reagan, and would spent the next 12 years out of government. After spending the Second World War in London, her family returned to Czechoslovaka before her father sent her abroad — first to Switzerland, then London, then to finally to the United States with the rest of her family in 1948, arriving as refugees fleeing Soviet-backed Communist Czech government.

President Clinton chose Albright as America's top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. At ...

He nominated her as U. S. ambassador to the U.N. in 1993. Albright married journalist Joseph Albright, a descendant of Chicago’s Medill-Patterson newspaper dynasty, in 1959. We are viewed in the Middle East as a colonial power and our motives are suspect.” “And as an immigrant herself, she brought a unique and important perspective to her trailblazing career.” As secretary of State, she played a key role in persuading Clinton to go to war against the Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic over his treatment of Kosovar Albanians in 1999. They had three daughters and divorced in 1983. She helped win Senate ratification of NATO’s expansion and a treaty imposing international restrictions on chemical weapons. Albright was an internationalist whose point of view was shaped in part by her background. Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959. At the time, she was the highest-ranking woman in the history of U. S. government. Albright remained outspoken through the years. “As the first woman to serve as America’s top diplomat, Madeleine Albright helped bring peace to the Balkans, paved the way for progress in some of the most unstable corners of the world, and was a champion for democratic values,” Obama said in a statement.

President Bill Clinton chose Ms Albright as America's top diplomat in 1996 and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration ...

Ms Albright was an internationalist whose point of view was shaped in part by her background. We are viewed in the Middle East as a colonial power and our motives are suspect.” President Bill Clinton chose Ms Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996 and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. President Bill Clinton chose Ms Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996 and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration. Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died of cancer aged 85, her family said. Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, has died of cancer aged 85, her family said.

Madeleine Albright, a refugee brought to U.S. shores after fleeing Nazis and communists and who went on to become the first woman to serve as secretary of ...

"So I went up to him and I said, 'Can you believe that a refugee is secretary of state?' " "She turned to me as a counselor and said, 'Could you organize the State Department to talk about Islam?' " Sherman said. "It was an indication of her ability to be political." "But it had nothing to do with her getting the job." "She was happy to wield it in her own way." "Madeleine said to him, 'When your government names a woman to head the delegation, I will spend considerable time with her as well.' " Albright, at 4 feet 10 inches tall, stood out in her cherry suit and pearls in the all-male group. Albright had a long and storied career in foreign policy, serving as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993-97 before reaching the pinnacle of diplomacy: secretary of state. "This all started when ... Saddam Hussein called me a serpent," Albright told NPR in 2009. "As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." It would never have happened, but I would have felt better about my own role in this." "She said, 'Where's Wonder Woman?' So they did a Wonder Woman comic book as well.

Former cabinet member was 'a trailblazer' as the highest-ranking woman in history when she was named to the role in 1996.

Bestowing the award, Obama said: “Once, at a naturalisation ceremony, an Ethiopian man came up to [Albright] and said, ‘Only in America can a refugee meet the secretary of state.’ She was a trailblazer as the first female secretary of state and quite literally opened doors for a large element of our work force.” And I think that it’s very disappointing.” Ben Rhodes, a former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, said: “Madeleine Albright was always exceedingly generous to and encouraging of younger people coming up in national security. “I don’t understand it, frankly,” she said. The role made her third-in-line to the presidency, though like her predecessors Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski she would not have been able to fill the role, not being a natural born US citizen as defined in the constitution. After the election of Clinton in 1992, Albright was first ambassador to the United Nations, then secretary of state. ‘Putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.’” “The things that are happening are genuinely, seriously bad,” she said. “Some of them are really bad. ‘Putin is small and pale,’ I wrote, ‘so cold as to be almost reptilian.’ He claimed to understand why the Berlin Wall had to fall but had not expected the whole Soviet Union to collapse. “The cause was cancer.

Madeleine Albright's family said in a statement that they were "heartbroken" to announce her death earlier today.

"The cause was cancer. At the time of her appointment, Ms Alright was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the US government. In May 2012, Ms Albright was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then US president Barack Obama.

Albright, who arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year-old refugee, became the first woman to serve as secretary of state.

"So I went up to him and I said, 'Can you believe that a refugee is Secretary of State?'" "She turned to me as a counselor and said, 'Could you organize the State Department to talk about Islam?" Sherman said. "It was an indication of her ability to be political." "But it had nothing to do with her getting the job." "She was happy to wield it in her own way." "Madeleine said to him, 'When your government names a woman to head the delegation, I will spend considerable time with her as well.'" Albright, at 4 feet 10 inches tall, stood out in her cherry suit and pearls in the all male group. Albright had a long and storied career in foreign policy, serving as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993-97 before reaching the pinnacle of diplomacy: secretary of state. "This all started when...Saddam Hussein called me a serpent," Albright told NPR in 2009. "As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last." It would never have happened, but I would have felt better about my own role in this." "She said, 'Where's Wonder Woman?' So they did a Wonder Woman comic book as well.

Albright, who arrived in the U.S. as an 11-year-old refugee, became the first woman to serve as secretary of state. She died on Wednesday at the age of 84.

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