World leaders honor a single mom who wondered whether she was enough
The 1,400 heads atop dark suits nodded solemnly in one of our nation’s grand and somber rituals, beneath the neo-Gothic nave of Washington National Cathedral where we celebrate and grieve American giants.It’s what our nation lauds — mettle, sagacity and ““Welcome to our fraternity,” Henry Kissinger told Albright, when she was confirmed as America’s 64th — and first female — secretary of state in 1997.
The cinematic story of her 84 years, a political refugee who arrived at America’s shore on the cargo vessel SS America when she was 11 years old was “sort of a microcosm of the late 20th century in Europe and the United States,” Clinton said. There was applause even when Hillary Clinton ended her powerful and charming eulogy telling the casket before her holding Albright’s body that “we will never, ever forget you.”Albright struggled with the duality of her life, the eternal struggle of the working mom. And she famously said, “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
She’s like all of us. Except she was slaying dictators and stopping genocide while worrying that her daughters wouldThe deep affection those daughters have for mom, their loving stories, their tears, their own, successful lives, answer all of Albright’s doubts.Years ago, she took the time to meet my mom, who grew up in the same part of Prague — Smichov — as Albright did.
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