Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Albright endorsed and supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign. [106] Albright was a close friend of Clinton and served as an informal advisor on foreign policy matters. [107] On December 1, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama nominated then-Senator Clinton for Albright's former post of Secretary of State. [108]
The Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior follow with three, and the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and State have each had two. Former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright were the highest-ranking foreign-born cabinet members ever in accordance to the United States presidential line of ...
Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years. Daniel Webster and James G. Blaine are the only secretaries of state to have ever served non-consecutive terms. Warren Christopher served very briefly as acting secretary of state non-consecutively with his later tenure as full-fledged secretary of ...
Madeleine Albright, who in 1996 became the first woman to be named U.S. Secretary of State, died Wednesday at the age of 84. The cause of death was cancer, according to a statement posted by her ...
Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright died at age 84 on Wednesday, her family announced in a statement.
Albright was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997 and U.S. President Bill Clinton's secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. UPDATE 2-Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of ...
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via GettyTrailblazing diplomat and politician Madeleine Albright, an immigrant who rose to become the the first female secretary of state, died on Wednesday of cancer, her family said.
The Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability is the head of the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance. The position was created on December 12, 1999, by Secretary Albright as the Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance. The Bureau became fully operational on February 1, 2000 ...