Interview between Madeleine Albright and Lenka Kabrhelová
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- 2017
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(Biographical) Madeleine Albright was born Marie Korbelová in Prague in 1937. She emigrated to the United States with her family in 1948. Maintaining an active interest in her country of birth, Albright wrote first an honors thesis, and then a doctoral dissertation, on Czechoslovak historical topics (which she discusses in this interview). Albright served as American ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton from 1993 and became Secretary of State in 1997, which made her then the highest-ranking women in the history of American government. Madeleine Albright first met Václav Havel on a visit to Prague in 1990. She was previously familiar with his writing, which she calls “monumental,” and his activities as a dissident, which had made her proud of “this incredible man [who] personified… everything I thought about the country I came from.” The pair struck up an enduring friendship, which Albright refers to here as an honor “beyond my imagination.” In this interview with Havel Conversations, Secretary Albright discusses Václav Havel’s foreign policy, his respect for other people’s views, and the development of the pair’s friendship in the Czech Republic, Bermuda, and the United States.
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The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation
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- Vaclav Havel Library Foundation
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- Florida International University Libraries
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- moving image
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- 00:52:44
- Language
- English
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. Interview between Madeleine Albright and Lenka Kabrhelová. 2017. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082901/00001. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, (2017) Interview between Madeleine Albright and Lenka Kabrhelová. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082901/00001
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- The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI17082901/00001>.