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Madeleine Albright through the years
April 20, 2012
Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright sits at her home in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington.
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The Washington Post
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Oct. 2, 1990
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex.) with Albright, then president of the Center for National Policy, at a tribute to Bentsen.
Harry Naltchayan
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The Washington Post
June 27, 1993
Albright, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks to the U.N. Security Council, explaining a U.S. attack on Iraq on June 26, 1993. Albright used photos showing how Iraq planned to use a car bomb (in background) to assassinate President George H.W. Bush.
Mark D. Phillips
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AFP
Jan. 10, 1994
Czech President Vaclav Havel and then-U.N. Ambassador Albright, whose family is Czech, have a tete-a-tete in their common language as they meet for lunch at the U Modre Kachnicky Restaurant in Prague's Mala Strana district.
Jiri Jiru
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AFP/Getty Images
Nov. 24, 1994
Albright, as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, holds 17-week old Prince Clinton Boncoeur while Secretary of Defense William Perry smiles at the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti. Perry and Albright, who were in Haiti to spend Thanksgiving with U.S. troops, were about to be briefed by military commanders when they were handed little Prince Clinton.
Marta Lavandier
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AP
Dec. 4, 1996
President Bill Clinton watches as U.N. Ambassador Albright addresses reporters after Clinton announced that he was naming Albright to be his new secretary of state during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House. She was the first woman to hold the top U.S. diplomatic post.
Paul J. Richards
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AFP/Getty Images
Deb. 3, 1997
President Bill Clinton shakes hands with new Secretary of State Albright before beginning his State of the Union address before a joint meeting of Congress at the Capitol as Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin watches.
Joe Marquette
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AFP/Getty Images
March 22, 1997
Albright, as secretary of state, appears on the CBS program "Face the Nation" to discuss U.S. relations with Russia and China and the situation in the Middle East.
Karin Cooper
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AFP/Getty Images
April 1, 1997
Albright, as secretary of state, throws the ceremonial first pitch before the game between the Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
Stephen Jaffe
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AFP/Getty Images
May 21, 1997
Dennis J. Picard, left, chief executive of Raytheon, Secretary of State Albright and Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, pose at Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum in New York. Albright was presented with the Intrepid Freedom Award for leadership in defense of peace.
Stan Honda
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Oct. 28, 1997
Albright, as secretary of state, and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin appear during a photo opportunity inside the Blair House in Washington.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Aug. 1, 1998
Albright, as secretary of state, welcomes Eriapa Uruamo with a traditional greeting during her welcome to New Zealand at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
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Feb. 16, 1998
With snow falling heavily, Albright is framed by the American and Canadian flags during a ceremony at the Peace Keeping Monument in Ottawa. Albright, who was on a one-day visit to Ottawa as secretary of state, said Washington would refrain from meddling in Canada's internal debate over Quebec's possible secession.
Dave Chan
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Oct. 8, 1998
Albright, as secretary of state, listens to the U.S envoy to the Balkans, Richard Holbrooke, at London’s Heathrow Airport at the beginning of the six-nation Contact Group on the crisis in Kosovo. Albright asked NATO to proceed to the next stage of preparations for military action in Kosovo.
Martyn Hayhow
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AFP
March 12, 1999
Polish Foreign Affairs Minister Bronislaw Geremek hugs Secretary of State Albright as Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Janos Martonyi reaches to shake the hand of Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Kavan after the accession ceremony that brought Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic into NATO at the Harry S. Truman library in Independence, Mo.
John Ruthroff
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AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 27, 1999
Albright, as secretary of state, welcomes Palestinian Authority Secretary General Mahmoud Abbas at her residence in Washington.
Manny Ceneta
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 4, 1999
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sign a landmark agreement paving the way for talks on a permanent peace settlement. The signing ceremony in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh was hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, center, and witnessed by Jordan's King Abdullah II, second from left, and Albright, then secretary of state.
Menahem Kahana
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 7, 1999
Albright, as secretary of state, testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill. The committee was conducting hearings on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Tim Sloan
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AFP/Getty Images
April 20, 2000
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat speaks with Secretary of State Albright after his arrival for a luncheon at Albright's Georgetown home in Washington.
George Bridges
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AFP/Getty Images
July 11, 2000
Albright, as secretary of state, and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger confer during the Middle East Peace Summit at the Camp David presidential retreat in Thurmont, Md.
Ralph Alswang
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AFP/Getty Images
Oct. 23, 2000
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, left, and Albright, as secretary of state, applaud at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. Albright was treated to a mass demonstration marking the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers Party.
Frederic J. Brown
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AFP
Oct. 24, 2000
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il toasts Secretary of State Albright at a dinner in Pyongyang. Albright's visit was part of a coordinated strategy involving Washington and its allies, South Korea and Japan, to end the North's isolation and remove the threat of war in one of the world's most volatile regions.
Chien-Min Chung
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AFP
Nov. 28, 2000
First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, along with Secretary of State Albright, convenes the first White House Conference on Culture in a East Room ceremony in Washington.
Stephen Jaffe
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AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 26, 2002
Former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger testify at a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq.
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The Washington Post
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