
She worked for the National Security Council during the Carter administration and advised Democrats on foreign policy before Clinton’s election. in public law and government at Columbia University. She studied political science at Wellesley College and graduated with honors, going on to earn a Ph.D. Her father, Josef, served as a diplomat to Yugoslavia until the 1948 communist coup in Czechoslovakia when the family moved to Denver, Colorado.Īlbright would later change her name and became a U.S. She also toed a hard line on Cuba, famously saying at the United Nations that the Cuban shootdown of a civilian plane was not “cojones” but rather “cowardice.”Īlbright was born Marie Jean “Madlenka” Korbel on May 15, 1937, in Prague, according to her biography from the U.S. However, as a refugee from Czechoslovakia, she was not a dove and played a leading role in pressing for the Clinton administration to get militarily involved in the conflict in Kosovo. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO.

(Photo by Isa Foltin/Getty Images for Daimler) HAMBURG, GERMANY – JUNE 06: Award winner Madeleine Albright via Video during the Emotion Award 2019 on Jin Hamburg, Germany.(Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images) Albright asked the panel to increase funding for diplomacy in order to secure the US postition around the world.

WASHINGTON, : US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles as she prepares to testify before the House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington 12 February.
