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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first woman to hold the position.
politics · American diplomat and political scientist (1937–2022) · diplomat · politician · writer · political scientist · ambassador · university teacher · opinion journalist · minister · foreign minister · autobiographer · also Madeleine Albright, Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright, Madeleine Korbel Albright, Madeleine K. Albright, Marie Jana Körbelová, Madeleine Jana Korbel
Born 15 May 1937 · Died 23 March 2022 · Q174438
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“I absolutely believe what I said, that women should help one another, but this was the wrong context and the wrong time to use that line. I did not mean to argue that women should support a particular candidate based solely on gender.”
“My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.”
New York Daily News: Madeleine Albright’s funeral at the National Cathedral brings together presidents, world leaders
Yahoo: An appreciation: The headline Madeleine Albright never forgot, and the life she lived
New York Daily News: Madeleine Albright’s funeral service in Washington, DC
CBS News: As Madeleine Albright is laid to rest, a former student recalls her kindness in time of crisis
National Catholic Reporter: Madeleine Albright is remembered as diplomat and teacher
NPR: Judge Jackson, Madeleine Albright and the legacy of being 'first'
NPR: Madeleine Albright left a rich legacy for other women in public service to follow
KPBS: Madeleine Albright kept up her trailblazing work long after being secretary of state
Smithsonian Magazine: Madeleine Albright on Her Life in Pins
Died 2022-03-23.
“The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.”
“When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.”
“I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.”
“Armageddon is not a foreign policy.”
Albright was named by Time among the world's 100 powerful women who defined the last century
Won Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Diplomacy (2019).
Won Silver Medal of the President of the Senate (2019).
Time created 89 new covers to celebrate women of the year starting from 1920; it chose Albright for 1999
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2018).
Claimed: “Says Benito Mussolini "initiated a campaign to 'drenare la palude' ('drain the swamp') by firing more than 35,000 civil servants."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Published “Pan-tumor genomic biomarkers for PD-1 checkpoint blockade–based immunotherapy” in Science — cited 2,020 times.
Published “Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems” in Nature Ecology & Evolution — cited 1,974 times.
Published “IFN-γ–related mRNA profile predicts clinical response to PD-1 blockade” in Journal of Clinical Investigation — cited 3,403 times.
VOA rated the claim “That Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, said that it is not fair that Russia possesses such vast natural resources. Variants of the quotes attributed to her include: “How is it fair if a territory like Siberia belongs to only one country?” and “It is terribly unfair for Russia to…” False.
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Albright was listed as one of the 50 best-dressed over 50s by The Guardian in March 2013.
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2012).
Her investment firm, Albright Capital Management, was preparing to bid in the proposed privatization of Kosovo's state-owned telecom and postal company, Post and Telecom of Kosovo
Awarded Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (2010).
Was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
Awarded Theodore Roosevelt Award (2009).
Albright also published the book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box about her pins
President-elect Barack Obama nominated then-Senator Clinton for Albright's former post of Secretary of State
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Knox College (2008).
Albright declared that she and William Cohen would co-chair a new Genocide Prevention Task Force created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the United States Institute
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2006).
Said she was capable of leg pressing 400 pounds (180 kg)
Was named by Carnegie Corporation to the inaugural class of winners of the Great Immigrants Award
To engage in private fund management related to emerging markets
Declined to run for re-election to the board in the aftermath of the Richard Grasso compensation scandal, in which Grasso, the chairman of the NYSE board of directors, had been granted $187
Albright submitted her resignation
Awarded Elizabeth Blackwell Award (2001).
Awarded honorary doctorate from Brown University (2001).
In one of her last acts as Secretary of State, Albright made a farewell call to Kofi Annan and said that the U
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
Won Great Gold Medal of Masaryk University (2000).
Awarded Freedom Award (1999).
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1998).
“He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.”
At the NATO summit, Albright articulated what became known as the "three Ds" of NATO, "which is no diminution of NATO, no discrimination and no duplication—because I think that we don't need any of those three "Ds" to ha
“If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future....”
Albright was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (1997).
Albright said that the report was a "major surprise"
Albright said her parents never told her or her two siblings about their Jewish ancestry and heritage
Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1997–2001).
When The Washington Post reported on Albright's Jewish ancestry shortly after she had become Secretary of State in 1997, Albright said that the report was a "major surprise".
Awarded Margaret Brent Award (1996).
Then-ambassador Albright defended the sanctions on a 60 Minutes segment in which Lesley Stahl asked her, "We have heard that half a million children have died
Was greeted with chants of "libertad"
After Cuban military pilots shot down two small civilian aircraft flown by the Cuban-American exile group Brothers to the Rescue over international waters, she announced at a UN Security Council meeting debating a resolu
“it was a very, very difficult time, and the situation was unclear. You know, in retrospect, it all looks very clear. But when you were [there] at the time, it was unclear about what was happening in Rwanda.”
Albright entered into a secret pact with Richard Clarke, Michael Sheehan, and James Rubin to overthrow U
In Albright's role as the U
Boutros-Ghali became a political scapegoat in the United States
Career landmark: United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1993–1997).
Bill Clinton returned the White House to the Democratic Party, and Albright was employed to handle the transition to a new administration at the National Security Council
And presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988 (both campaigns ended in defeat)
Specializing in Eastern European studies
And advised Democratic candidates regarding foreign policy
To Ronald Reagan, Albright moved on to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D
To work in the West Wing as the National Security Council's congressional liaison
And commuted to Columbia for her doctor of philosophy, which she earned in 1975
And the Albrights returned to Long Island with the notion of Joseph taking over the family newspaper business
She had been raised Catholic, but converted to the Episcopal Church upon her marriage in 1959.
Albright married Joseph Albright in 1959.
And earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1975, writing her thesis on the Prague Spring
And joined the College Democrats of America
Graduated from the Kent Denver School in Cherry Hills Village, a suburb of Denver
And arriving at Ellis Island in New York Harbor on November 11, 1948
Her parents had converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1941, during her early childhood, after fleeing Czechoslovakia for England in 1939, to avoid anti-Jewish persecution before they immigrated to the U.S.
During her early childhood, after fleeing Czechoslovakia for England in 1939, to avoid anti-Jewish persecution before they immigrated to the U
Born 1937-05-15.
In the Smíchov district of Prague, Czechoslovakia
“s claim was unfounded. Speech against Serbs and war profiteering In late October 2012, during a book signing in the Prague bookstore Palác Knih Luxor, Albright was visited by a group of activists from the Czech organization Přátelé Srbů na Kosovu (Friends of Serbs in Kosovo). She was filmed saying,”
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Gdańsk.
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland.
Awarded Anna Lindh Memorial Fund.
Awarded Grand Order of Queen Jelena.
Awarded honorary doctor of Brandeis University.
Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Merit of Hungary.
Won Democracy Service Medal.
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Awarded Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
Awarded Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class.
Awarded Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana.
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Studied at School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Studied at Columbia University, Master of Arts.
Studied at Kent Denver School.
Studied at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Studied at Johns Hopkins University.
Studied at Wellesley College, Bachelor of Arts.