doing good. Granted she was 84, but all things considered she would have probably been very useful right now.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/madeleine-albright-died-secretary-of-state-dead-age-84-cause-of-death-cancer-2022-03-23/
Madeleine Albright, first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, dies at 84
By Sophie Reardon, Caroline Linton
Updated on: March 23, 2022 / 3:54 PM / CBS News
Madeleine Albright, the 64th U.S. secretary of state and the first woman to ever serve in the role, has died of cancer, her family said. She was 84.
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Albright rose in American politics before becoming the secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton in 1997. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelova in Prague in 1939. Her parents were Jewish and fled the Nazi-occupied country just two years after her birth. They moved to Britain and converted to Catholicism. More than two dozen of Albright's relatives, including three of her grandparents, were murdered in the Holocaust. Albright was unaware of her history — even that she had Jewish heritage — until it was uncovered by The Washington Post in 1997.
"I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic," Albright said in an interview with The Washington Post at the time. "My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. This was their pride [and] that is what I grew up with."
Albright's family returned to Czechoslovakia after the war and her father served as a Czech ambassador, but they were forced to flee again after the country fell in a Communist coup in 1949. They came to the U.S. as refugees.
"Becoming a U.S. citizen is the most important thing that ever happened to me," Albright said in an email to then-President Barack Obama ahead of the 2016 U.N. Refugee Summit. "My father said that when we were in Europe during WWII people would say, 'We are sorry for your troubles and hope that you have everything you need; by the way, when will you be leaving to go back home?' But in America, people said: 'We are sorry for your troubles and hope that you have everything you need; by the way, when will you become a citizen?'"......................
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