Monday, March 14, 2016

Madeleine Albright




                   Madeleine Albright

                                 First Female Secretary of state 

      " It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not                                                             going to be silent. " 


While still was still in school , in 1972 Albright first entered the political arena as a legislative assistant to Democratic senator Edmund Muskie. Four years after that , she was hired by the national security adviser.

In 1992 president- Bill Clinton choose Albright to handle the United States' relationship with the United Nations. She officially assumed the role of U.S. representative to the United Nations in January 1993. 

In December 1996, Clinton once again looked to Albright for her expertise in foreign policy, nominating her for secretary of state. Madeleine Albright was the 64th secretary of state but she was the first female to hold that important position.  

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6 comments:

  1. I have never heard of her, but i think its amazing that she was the first women to become secretary of state

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  2. I found it interesting that she was first female secretary of the state

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  3. She was very inspiring, and the video was intersecting!

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  4. How much Clinton relied on her is inspiring that he was okay with having a female as his secretary of state.

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  5. I learned that she was the 64th secretary of state but she was the first woman to have that job.

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  6. She was personally called by the president asking to be his person secretary. She agreed and thus became the first ever female secretary of state. This made women later have bigger roles in government, leading one step to closer to equality.

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