Some 1,400 mourners gathered in Washington to celebrate Madeleine Albright’s life and accomplishments of the child refugee from war-torn Europe who rose to become America’s first female secretary of state.
“Until the end, she was still in a hurry to do good,” Clinton said.
Albright was born in what was then Czechoslovakia, but her family fled twice, first from the Nazis and then from Soviet rule. They ended up in the United States,as a teenager and where she studied at Wellesley College. She rose through the ranks of Democratic Party foreign policy circles to become ambassador to the United Nations. Bill Clinton selected her as secretary of state in 1996 for his second term.
As secretary of state, Albright 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. As U.N. ambassador, she advocated a tough U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the case of Milosevic’s treatment of Bosnia. NATO’s intervention in Kosovo was eventually dubbed “Madeleine’s War.”
“I called her and I said … ‘This is the best line developed and delivered by anybody in this administration,” Clinton said.
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