MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

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President Joe Biden had lunch Monday with former President Bill Clinton, as Democrats are facing long odds to retain their congressional majorities in November’s midterm elections.

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Presidents and dignitaries gathered at Washington National Cathedral to remember first female United States Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright.

Helping forge a post-Cold War identity for the United States. Alberto Pizzoli/Sygma/Sygma via Getty ImagesMadeleine Albright may have not coined the phrase “indispensable nation,” but she will always be associated with the concept. By the time she became Secretary of State in 1997, the United States had become a beached superpower. During the Cold War, its forces had been deployed across the world for the explicit purpose of deterring Soviet aggression. When the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991,

President Bill Clinton honors former Secretary of State Madeleine Abright at her funeral service in Washington by recalling their last conversation as one he "will never forget." (April 27)

"My year in Iraq is without question the most formative of my life. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of that year was the role Dr. Albright played for me," Hal Brewster writes.

"My year in Iraq is without question the most formative of my life. But perhaps the most surprising aspect of that year was the role Dr. Albright played for me," Hal Brewster writes.

More than 1,400 people, including several foreign leaders, are expected to attend the funeral Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral.

Madeleine Albright's famous pin collection will be part of the National Museum of American Diplomacy at the State Department.

World leaders and the U.S. political and foreign policy elite joyously remembered America's first female secretary of state as mourners paid their respects to the late Madeleine Albright.

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMediaMadeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state who counted as great friends to Colin Powell, the first Black secretary of state, and Condoleezza Rice, the first Black woman secretary of state, has died at 84. Under Clinton, she became the nation’s United Nations representative and then secretary of state. Following Powell’s death in 2021, Albright spoke of the bond between the two respected servants. “In a (2018) book that I wrote is ‘Fascism: A Warning,’ I went back, and I actually looked at how fascism began, which it did with Mussolini,” Albright stated during a broadcast conversation with Rice. Michelle and I send our thoughts to the Albright family and everyone who knew and served with a truly remarkable woman.”

The historian remembers the trailblazing Secretary of State and U.N. Ambassador, who promoted NATO enlargement while antagonizing despots around the world.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s death from cancer this week sparked American women to reflect on the 84-year-old diplomat’s sweeping influence on their lives, 25 years after Bill Clinton made her the United States’ representative to the world.

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As Secretary of State, she foresaw the danger of Putin’s rule even as she campaigned for NATO’s expansion to Russia’s borders.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is being remembered as a woman of conviction and determination who liked to say she told things like they were and not the way she might like them to be.

President Biden has been meeting with European allies about Russia's war on Ukraine.

A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia.

Madeleine Albright was the 64th U.S. secretary of state and the first woman to ever serve in the role.

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

The former U.S. secretary of state recalled the first time she met Russian President Vladimir Putin back in 1999 during the Clinton administration.

As she pressed the Clinton administration into action against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic over war crimes in the Balkans, Madeleine Albright would harken back to her own childhood as a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled the Nazis in war-torn Europe.

Current and former politicians from the U.S. and abroad reacted to the news of Albright's death on Wednesday.

In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Albright the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded Albright the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States.

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state who served under the Clinton administration, has died.

Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state, has died at age 84.

Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated eastern Europe who rose to become the 1st female U.S. secretary of state and a mentor to many current and former American statesmen and women, has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday. A lifelong Democrat who nonetheless worked to bring Republicans into her orbit, Albright was chosen by former President Bill Clinton to be America's top diplomat in 1996, elevating her from her post as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, where she had been only the second woman to hold that job. As secretary of state, Albright was the highest-ranking woman in the history of U.S. government.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Russian President Vladimir Putin would be making a "historic error" if he proceeds with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine."Mr. Putin's revisionist and absurd assertion that Ukraine was 'entirely created by Russia' and effectively robbed from the Russian empire is fully in keeping with his warped worldview. Most disturbing to me: It was his attempt to establish the pretext for a full-scale invasion...

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Biden will nominate Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state and Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs — the second- and third-highest ranking posts, respectively. They were among the 11 officials announced to serve under the incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken. America is back.”Among the others are:—longtime Biden Senate aide Brian McKeon, to be deputy secretary of state for management. —Derek Chollet, a familiar Democratic foreign policy hand, to be State Department counselor. Price and Porter intend to return to the practice of holding daily State Department press briefings, officials said.

One thing, at least, used to be predictable in this world: crowds gathering around the globe to celebrate as the New Year rolled in. And there is no immediate improvement in all the issues the world is facing just because the date has now changed to 2021. "Definitely not," replied Madeleine Albright, who was U.S. Secretary of State 20 years ago, when the world was a different place. U.S. President Donald Trump confronted by world leaders (including German Chancellor Angela Merkel) at the 2018 G7 Summit. We have to have the bandwidth," Albright said.

2021: The U.S., no longer AWOL on the world stage The New Year promises a period of renewed engagement in the world by the United States, but after four years of the outgoing administration, will our Western allies once again trust American leadership? Correspondent Mark Phillips talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and with Dr. Karin von Hippel, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

2021: The U.S., no longer AWOL on the world stage The New Year promises a period of renewed engagement in the world by the United States, but after four years of the outgoing administration, will our Western allies once again trust American leadership? Correspondent Mark Phillips talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and with Dr. Karin von Hippel, director-general of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, left, gives flowers to Susan Pompeo as she and her husband, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, arrive at Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)WASHINGTON – The State Department said Thursday that a report by its independent watchdog has concluded that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife did not violate federal regulations or ethics rules by traveling abroad with her husband while he was on official business. Susan Pompeo had attracted criticism for accompanying her husband on diplomatic trips abroad, beginning with a Middle East tour in 2018 that took place during the federal government shutdown. Secretary Pompeo has previously defended his wife's presence on his international trips by noting that she does work with diplomats’ families and is a “force multiplier” in boosting morale at overseas posts. The State Department said the inspector general had cleared her of any impropriety or misuse of taxpayer money on that Mideast trip and seven others she made with her husband.

Thomas-Greenfield joined the State Department more than three decades ago, when Black women were even more of a rarity in the U.S. diplomatic corps than they are today. That makes her the most experienced diplomat of the six people named by Biden for top national security positions on Monday. Her tenure at the State Department rivals that of previous U.N. ambassadors like Richard Holbrooke, John Negroponte and Thomas Pickering, all of them white men. Other than secretary of state, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is often the most high-profile foreign policy portfolio in a presidential administration. Thomas-Greenfield's immediate predecessors — all women — highlight that dichotomy: Rice, Samantha Power, Nikki Haley and Kelly Craft.

When Bernie Sanders takes the stage or gets behind a microphone, he seldom surprises the presidential candidates policy-heavy script is so familiar that crowds at his rallies often know what line is coming next. Their sometimes startling riffs and freewheeling broadsides against the establishment have played a large role in swelling the Sanders movement. He needs to be careful that his surrogates reflect that effort.AdvertisementThe surrogates are showing no sign of toning it down. Im a black woman in America, and I do have a thought outside of what I do for Sen. Sanders, campaign co-chair Nina Turner said Thursday in a brief interview in Las Vegas. 11 is going to come around, and you are thinking: Hey, Ive got a chance for a hot date Vote?

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addressed the DNC Tuesday. Albright said she has "seen Clinton fight and win for our country." See her full remarks.

Washington, D.C.'s mom-and-pop shop Tiny Jewel Box is frequented by the likes of President Obama, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Bush family. The shop's chairman, Jim Rosenheim, describes how some of their more famous customers behave differently from their public personas while shopping for gems.

Madeleine Albright now a Wheaties champion The former secretary of state is now gracing Wheaties cereal boxes. General Mills says its new definition of a champion is anyone who looks inside and challenges their personal best.

Madeleine Albright: "To put it mildly, the world is a mess" Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discusses the crisis in Ukraine, relations with Russia, and the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

Madam Secretary Several weeks after Madeleine Albright became America's first female Secretary of State, Ed Bradley dropped by her office to find Albright still pinching herself.