Madeleine Albright Interview: From War-Torn London to America's First Female Secretary of State

Madeleine Albright recalls her early childhood living through World War II in London, her family’s immigration to America in 1948, and studying political science and international relations at Wellesley College. Albright discusses why it’s important for women to “learn to interrupt”, discovering her own identity after her divorce, and describes President Clinton asking her to be the first woman to be Secretary of State as “a magical moment”.
Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jean “Madlenka” Korbel on May 15, 1937, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her father, Josef, was a member of the Czechoslovak Foreign Service and served as press attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and later became Ambassador to Yugoslavia. After the communist coup in 1948, the family immigrated to Denver, Colorado. Albright Americanized her name to Madeleine, became a U.S. citizen in 1957, and earned a B.A. in political science with honors from Wellesley College in 1959. She earned the Ph.D. in Public Law and Government at Columbia University in 1976. Albright served as chief legislative assistant to Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Me) from 1976 to 1978. From 1978 to 1981, she served as a staff member in the White House under President Jimmy Carter and on the National Security Council under National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Albright had three children with her Husband Joseph Albright. The two divorced in 1982. Also in 1982 she was appointed Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Director of its Women in Foreign Service Program. In 1993 she was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations by President Clinton and served in the position until her appointment as Secretary of State in 1996. As the first woman to be Secretary of State, Albright promoted the expansion of NATO eastward into the former Soviet bloc nations and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet republics to rogue nations, successfully pressed for military intervention under NATO auspices during the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo in 1999, supported the expansion of free-market democratization and the creation of civil societies in the developing world, favored the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change, and furthered the normalization of relations with Vietnam. Albright died on March 23, 2022.
From the 2013 PBS Documentary “Makers: Women Who Make America”, examines how women have helped shape America over the past 150 years, striving for a full and fair share of political power and economic opportunity.
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Madeleine Albright, Former Secretary Of State
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:08 Childhood
3:00 College
06:45 First job
08:56 Reading of letter
11:55 A man’s world
15:38 Marriage
21:03 Moving up the ladder
23:37 Finding her voice
27:30 Sexism
29:50 Female rivalry
33:17 Becoming Secretary of State
35:16 Fashion in politics
35:54 Advice
37:34 Q&A
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[@marklanahan7289]

Gonna ask how she became a mass murderer?

[@200991602]

She and Hillary . It has always infuriated me when other women rant about women being '' kinder and gentler '' , it's a myth which has to end . It's crazy the backlash reasonable people have gotten from the pseudo intellectual crowd of neo libs which promote war internationally and domestically they promote anti family and anti freedom agendas.

[@charlawillson5654]

Excellent!

[@akpanekpo6025]

If you've ever wondered why we continue to have so many genocidal wars across the globe, watch this nauseating video if you must. This, remember, is the woman who stated that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children (at the time, later rising to 1m) were "a price worth paying" for her country's policy of punitive sanctions, which, as she must have known, only affected ordinary Iraqis. You see the same fawning "interviews" with other certified genocidaires like Kissinger, perhaps the most prolific of them all. I thought these emetic events were only staged in the MSM, who at least have the excuse of being literal stenographers and loudhailers for the war industry. What sort of people indulge and normalize these foul and monstrous creatures?

[@moodyonroody5313]

If you believe wiki: research following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has shown that commonly cited data were fabricated by the Iraqi government and that "there was no major rise in child mortality in Iraq after 1990 and during the period of the sanctions"

[@nikkimilevsky5449]

Read the book

[@NamGungEun]

Madeleine Albright Interview: From War-Torn London to America's First Female Secretary of State

[@johnbarnett6924]

I have read All of HER Book ,Hell And Other Damnations, Thanks for this Post , I Have Memories In Her Own Words ! R I P Madame Secretary, revisted May 8 2024 ❤❤❤❤

[@avinashverma9789]

she is a devil

[@promeneuzivotu117]

She is food for worms now lol.

[@jjapan3241]

Half a million kids died but we can justify it Evil

[@user-gd4wt6oi7y]

I still have to come across credit given to women in usa of having done some worthwhile work or changes or even private philanthropy including Melinda gates now that she has resources post divorce..

[@pasindukanishka7504]

She betrayed her married life for job promotion. She lived for work.

[@zarifbajrami454]

RESPEKT

[@200991602]

Great interview , I just don't agree with any of her policies .

[@AO-po8kc]

E v i l

[@MerryRedRose-ez6ih]

I am sure you Mdm Albright who asked me 1998 or 1997 whether I still needed Suharto as indonesia president. But why did you ask me. I meaned you knew I was be disturbed by ghost as far as Soharto as Indonesian president. But know ghost of Obama (US democrat and Megawati or other from Indonesia always disturbing my mind with the name of Yuli Yulianti. Very stupid As I do not know Obama except from TV. I do not know Donald trump and Hilary Clinton too. It started since 1993 when Mr Bill Clinton invited A black man (Obama):came to White House.

[@mariamagdalena7147]

Satan his self

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

The devil incarnate.

[@sobti89]

Mass murder and a monster