Madeleine Albright: Worried Optimist
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🗓️ 1 January 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks to Bill about the state of foreign relations today, what to expect from President-elect Joe Biden and her recent book, "Hell and Other Destinations."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and our last special episode for this holiday season. |
| 0:14.2 | In addition to COVID-19 and the economic crisis, foreign policy will be another big challenge for the new administration, |
| 0:23.1 | and nobody outside the administration will be more helpful than former Secretary of State, |
| 0:28.5 | Madeline Albright. Even without her official role at the State Department, |
| 0:33.7 | Secretary Albright remains active in world affairs, head of her own group of former heads of state and foreign ministers, and foreign policy advisor to both former President Barack Obama and incoming President Joe Biden. |
| 0:47.4 | This year, she also published another book about her experience as the United States' first female Secretary of State appropriately |
| 0:55.7 | called Hell and Other Destinations. |
| 1:00.3 | A few months ago, Secretary Albright joined me at Washington's Hill Center to discuss her |
| 1:06.0 | new book and many of the foreign policy challenges facing the country today, all of which, by the way, |
| 1:12.2 | remain unresolved and all of which will be a top priority for President Joe Biden and his |
| 1:18.0 | Secretary of State Tony Blinken. I was so impressed with Madden & Albright's insights on America's |
| 1:24.1 | proper role in the world. I thought it would be worth sharing them with you on this |
| 1:29.2 | podcast. Madam Secretary, it's good to see you again. Congratulations, the new book, Hell and Other |
| 1:36.9 | Destinations, which I very, very much enjoyed. Congratulations. And you know, I'm just, this book is different than your other |
| 1:47.3 | books. I've read two or three of your other books, interviewed you, interviewed you about a couple of |
| 1:51.7 | them. You know, in this one, you really kind of let your hair down. Tell a lot of great stories, |
| 1:59.2 | kind of bouncing around all over. It must have been fun for you to write. |
| 2:06.1 | Well, it was. And the reason I decided to write it is that, and I kind of say it right up front, |
| 2:11.5 | people ask me how I want to be remembered, and I said, I want to be remembered, I'm still here. |
| 2:16.5 | But as I try to explain to people what I'm doing now and why I'm doing all the different things, |
| 2:23.5 | it does try to explain what I'm doing and how they knit together and how. |
| 2:29.7 | And I've also said, and you've heard me say this, is that I always think that what I need to be doing at the moment should be more interesting than what I did before. |
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