More than 1,400 people, including President Biden and several foreign leaders, are expected to attend the funeral Wednesday for former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who died last month at 84 after a long career in public service.
The service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Washington National Cathedral, to which Albright had close ties for several decades. Biden, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will deliver eulogies in memory of Albright’s life, including her distinction as the nation’s first female secretary of state.
Others who will pay tribute to Albright include Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman, who was friends with Albright for more than 35 years; former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, who was a student of Albright’s father, Josef Korbel, at the University of Denver; and Albright’s three daughters.The music at Wednesday’s service will include pieces by Czech composers as a nod to Albright’s roots: Albright was born in 1937 in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Foreign leaders in attendance will include Salome Zourabichvili, president of Georgia; Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, president of Kosovo; Bisera Turkovic, foreign minister of Bosnia; Miloš Vystrčil, president of the Czech Senate; and Jan Lipavský, minister of foreign affairs of the Czech Republic.Albright’s pallbearers will be former members of her protective detail and of her diplomatic security service when she served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Other high-profile figures in attendance will include Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama, former vice president Al Gore, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , along with a large, bipartisan group of members of Congress.In a floor speech Tuesday, Pelosi remembered Albright as a dear personal friend as well as a stateswoman.
“She was a champion of national security in our country,” Pelosi said. “She was the embodiment of the American dream, her family coming when she was 11 years old, refugees to our shores. Her personal story is the makings of novels and movies and the rest. But she was fresh and frisky and — she really, she had a sense of humor that was wonderful.”Comment
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