The celebrated diplomat made history as the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government.
the first women to ever serve as U.S. Secretary of State, died on Wednesday at age 84. Her family announced her deathAdvertisement
Albright’s political career began in the 1970s when she worked for then-Senator Ed Muskie of Maine. She’d later go on to serve as a counselor on foreign policy to Democratic presidential and vice presidential hopefuls Michael Dukakis and Geraldine Ferraro.as Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Both positions were given to her by then-president Bill Clinton.
During her years as a diplomat, Albright was a staunch advocate of the Clinton administration’s foreign policy, and, with her fluency in , became a popular figure on the international stage. In 1999, she urged the NATO military intervention in Kosovo, which successfully ended the ethnic cleansing of Albanians. In 2012, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.interview in which she was asked if the half million Iraqi children then believed to have died due to UN sanctions was “worth it.”
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