Madeleine Albright funeral held at Washington National Cathedral
President Joe Biden, Bill and Hillary Clinton, speak at Madeleine Albright s funeral Wednesday. Albright s admirers remember her as a champion of democracy, human rights and peace whose journey from wartorn Europe embodied the American story. RELATED: Madeleine Albright dies at 84 Albright, who first arrived to the U. S. as a young girl from wartorn Czechoslovakia, rose to become one of the highest officials in government. She served as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997 and later as secretary of state under Clinton from 1997 to 2001. Albright heavily influenced NATO s actions in her role. She pushed for the alliance s eastward expansion into the former Soviet bloc and helped lead the NATO bombing campaign in 1999 to halt ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Born Madeleine Korbel in Prague in 1937, Albright fled to England with her family in 1939 after Nazi Germany invaded
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