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This is Paul Adamson, and I'm in conversation with Madeline Albright.

Madden Albright is a former

Secretary of State in the Clinton administration, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

She is chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, and her latest book, Hell and Other

Destinations, A 21st Century Memoir, has just been published.

Secretary of Albright, welcome to the podcast.

It's good to be with you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So we're going to first kick off by talking about the book.

You call it a 21st century memoir, but just to remind you, Secretary Albright, you have

already written a memoir a few years ago.

So what was the inspiration for this memoir?

Well, this one actually was, just to make clear, was written before the virus issue. Right. The reason that I wrote it is that people keep asking me what, you know, how I want to be remembered.

And I said, I don't want to be remembered, I'm still here. And I was trying to show the different things that I have done since I left office.

And since I've always thought that I wanted to have whatever I was doing next,

more interesting than what I'd just been doing.

Not easy if you've been Secretary of State, but I've said yes to everything that was suggested to me. And I'm

involved in a lot of different things in terms of teaching at Georgetown University and having

a business and chairman of the board of the National Democratic Institute and an Aspen and a variety

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