{"id":1455458,"date":"2022-04-27T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455458"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:30:16","slug":"madeleine-albright-to-be-honored-by-world-leaders-dc-elite-at-her-funeral-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/madeleine-albright-to-be-honored-by-world-leaders-dc-elite-at-her-funeral-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Albright to Be Honored by World Leaders, DC Elite at Her Funeral Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmadeleine-albright-to-be-honored-by-world-leaders-dc-elite-at-her-funeral-today%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1455458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">World leaders and a bevy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. political and foreign policy elite<\/a> are preparing to pay their respects to the late Madeleine Albright, the child refugee from war-torn Europe who rose to become America\u2019s first female <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/secretary-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secretary of state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Led by President Joe Biden and predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, the man who picked Albright to be his top diplomat and the highest-ranking woman ever in the U.S. government at that time, some 1,400 mourners will gather Wednesday to celebrate her life and accomplishments at Washington National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/madeleine-albright-dies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MADELEINE ALBRIGHT DIES OF CANCER AT 84<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albright, 84, died of cancer last month, prompting an outpouring of condolences from around the world that also hailed her support for democracy and human rights. In addition to the current and former presidents, the service will be attended by at least three of her successors as secretary of state, along with other current and former Cabinet members, foreign diplomats, lawmakers and an array of others who knew her.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are all scheduled to deliver tributes at the service, while the current secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and former secretaries Condoleezza Rice and John Kerry are slated to attend. Other top current officials expected to be present include Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, CIA Director Bill Burns and White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign dignitaries slated to attend include the presidents of Georgia and Kosovo and senior officials from Colombia, Bosnia and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/640\/320\/albright-memorial.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington on May 24, 2012.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright smiles at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington on May 24, 2012.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Albright was born in what was then Czechoslovakia but her family fled twice, first from the Nazis and then from Soviet rule. They ended up in the United States, where she studied at Wellesley College and rose through the ranks of Democratic Party foreign policy circles to become ambassador to the United Nations. Clinton selected her as secretary of state in 1996 for his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Although never in line for the presidency because of her foreign birth, Albright was near universally admired for breaking a glass ceiling, even by her political detractors.<\/p>\n<p>As a Czech refugee who saw the horrors of both Nazi Germany and the Iron Curtain, she was not a dove. She played a leading role in pressing for the Clinton administration to get involved militarily in the conflict in Kosovo. &#8220;My mindset is Munich,&#8221; she said frequently, referring to the German city where the Western allies abandoned her homeland to the Nazis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/lawmakers-remember-madeleine-albright-legacy-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LAWMAKERS REMEMBER MADELEINE ALBRIGHT&#8217;S &#8216;REMARKABLE&#8217; LEGACY AFTER HER DEATH: &#8216;LIVED OUT THE AMERICAN DREAM&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As secretary of state, Albright played a key role in persuading Clinton to go to war against the Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic over his treatment of Kosovar Albanians in 1999. As U.N. ambassador, she advocated a tough U.S. foreign policy, particularly in the case of Milosevic\u2019s treatment of Bosnia. NATO\u2019s intervention in Kosovo was eventually dubbed &#8220;Madeleine\u2019s War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also took a hard line on Cuba, famously saying at the United Nations that the 1996 Cuban shootdown of a civilian plane was not &#8220;cojones&#8221; but rather &#8220;cowardice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Obama awarded Albright the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor, saying her life was an inspiration to all Americans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/640\/320\/GettyImages-145421144.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on May 29, 2012.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Former President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on May 29, 2012.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born Marie Jana Korbel in Prague on May 15, 1937, she was the daughter of a diplomat, Joseph Korbel. The family was Jewish and converted to Roman Catholicism when she was 5. Three of her Jewish grandparents died in concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>Albright was an internationalist whose point of view was shaped in part by her background. Her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1939 as the Nazis took over their country, and she spent the war years in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the war, as the Soviet Union took over vast chunks of Eastern Europe, her father brought the family to the United States. They settled in Denver, where her father taught at the University of Denver. One of Korbel\u2019s best students was Rice, who would later succeed his daughter as secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>Albright graduated from Wellesley College in 1959. She worked as a journalist and later studied international relations at Columbia University, where she earned a master\u2019s degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976. She then entered politics and what was at the time the male-dominated world of foreign policy professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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