Donald Trump appointed him director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017, then secretary of state a year later. He has speculated about a 2024 presidential run, one that might find him in competition with his former boss.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright died following a battle with cancer on Wednesday March 23 at age 84. Her family released a statement sharing the news of her passing, revealing that she was surrounded by her friends and family. “we have lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend,” her family said in the statement. Albright was an incredibly important important figure in the history of the United States, serving as an ambassador and Secretary of State for former President Bill Clinton. Here are five important things you need to know about Madeleine Albright.
1. Albright was the first female Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright is best-known for her time as the Secretary of State during Clinton’s administration. She was the first woman to hold the position, and it was the highest ranked position that a woman had held in the U.S. at the time. Since holding the position, two other women have held the position of Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice and former First Lady Hillary Clinton. During her time in office, she had fought to expand NATO, according to The New York Times. “As secretary, I will do my best to talk about foreign policy not in abstract terms, but in human terms and bipartisan terms,” she’d said at the time. “We cannot pursue policies abroad that are not understood and supported here at home.” Clinton wasn’t the first president that she worked for though. She began her career in national politics as a member of the National Security Council during President Jimmy Carter’s administration. After Ronald Reagan took office, Albright took positions with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later Georgetown University.
2. She formed a strategy firm after her time inDonald Trump appointed him director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017, then secretary of state a year later. He has speculated about a 2024 presidential run, one that might find him in competition with his former boss.
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Katie Couric took to Instagram to pen a heartbreaking tribute to a dear friend, historic figure, and someone who contributed to a major milestone of her career.MORE: Katie Couric marks anniversary of husband's death with unseen family photosThe journalist expressed her condolences over the passing of trailblazer Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the position of US Secretary of State.She served under President Bill Clinton. Born in Prague in 1937 before coming to the US as a refugee in 1948, the political icon continued to live in Washington DC until her death at age 84.
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Glamour honored Albright as a for her work as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. (She would go on to become the Secretary of State in 1997.) “One of just seven women among the U.N.'s 185 ambassadors—and the only woman on its top-level Security Council—Albright believes that women's issues like family planning and economic empowerment are as important a part of world politics as treaties and missiles,” Glamour wrote in the profile of the diplomat for the magazine.
Jordan Moreau Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State in U.S. history, died Wednesday of cancer, according to CNN. She was 84.Albright served as the 64th Secretary of State from 1997-2001 under President Bill Clinton.
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@Madeleine: pic.twitter.com/C7Xt0EN5c9Albright was a force to be reckoned with when she worked under President Bill Clinton's administration. She was Clinton's secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 after previously serving as his U.S.