Madeleine Albright, a friend of hers
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright
born May 15, 1937
aka Marie Jana Korbelová
Father Josef Korbel
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Korbel
20 September 1909 – 18 July 1977
Czech-American diplomat and political scientist
of Jewish descent
served as Czechoslovakia's ambassador to
Yugoslavia, the chair of the United Nations
Commission for India and Pakistan, and then as
a professor of international politics at the University
of Denver, where he founded the Josef Korbel
School of International Studies.
press-attaché at the Czechoslovak Embassy in
Belgrade
Though he served as a diplomat in the government of
Czechoslovakia, Korbel's politics and Judaism forced
him to flee with his wife and baby Madeleine after the
Nazi invasion in 1939 and move to London. Korbel
served as an advisor to Edvard Beneš, in the Czech
government in exile
His daughter Madeleine Albright served as Secretary
of State under President Bill Clinton, and he was the
mentor of George W. Bush's Secretary of State,
Condoleezza Rice.
During their time in England the Korbels converted to
Catholicism
Korbel returned to Czechoslovakia after the war,
receiving a luxurious Prague apartment expropriated
from Karl Nebrich, a Bohemian German industrialist
expelled under the Beneš decrees
appointed as the Czechoslovak ambassador to
Yugoslavia, where he remained until the Communist
coup in May 1948
named a delegate to the United Nations Commission
for India and Pakistan to mediate on the Kashmir
dispute
1949 Korbel applied for political asylum in the United
States stating that he would be arrested in
Czechoslovakia for his "faithful adherence to the
ideals of democracy." He received asylum and also a
grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to teach
international politics at the University of Denver
1964, with the benefaction of Ben Cherrington, Korbel
established the Graduate School of International
Studies and became its founding Dean
One of his students was Condoleezza Rice, the
first woman appointed National Security Advisor
(2001) and the first African-American woman
appointed Secretary of State (2005). Korbel's
daughter Madeleine became the first female
Secretary of State in 1997. Both of them have
testified to his substantial influence on their careers
in foreign policy and international relations.
Czechoslovak-American politician and diplomat
1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton United States
Secretary of State
became a U.S. citizen in 1957
worked as an aide to Senator Edmund Muskie before taking a
position under Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security
Council. She served in that position until the end of President
Jimmy Carter's lone term.
After leaving the National Security Council, Albright joined the
academic staff of Georgetown University and advised
Democratic candidates regarding foreign policy
1992 she helped assemble Clinton's National Security Council
1993~1997 Clinton appointed her to the position of U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations
1997~2001 served as Secretary of StateAlbright currently serves
as chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and as a professor of
International Relations at Georgetown University's School of
Foreign Service. In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama. Secretary
Albright also serves as a director on the board of the Council on
Foreign Relations
under president Bill Clinton she was a member of the President's
Intelligence Advisory Board
was also on the boards or councils of UNUM, Fleet Bank, Hartford Steam
Boiler Insurance Company, and the Commercial Credit Company
economic studies expert at the Brookings Institution concentrating
on education policy
was a member of the Carnegie Council on Higher Education, and at Harvard
she was the chairwoman of the visiting committee to the African American
studies program
was a senior vice president of Control Data Corporation. She oversaw the
company’s “interface in federal and state government public affairs and
policies
January 7, 1978, Rice married Alfred B. Fitt, who died in 1992. With Fitt, she
had four stepchildren: Cathleen, Benjamin, Craig, and Ann. Lois Rice died on
January 4, 2017 in a hospital in Washington, D.C. of pneumonia and cancer