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I flirt a bit: Albright
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IN a taped interview broadcast on Sunday on ABC's “This Week”, Madeleine Albright, the first woman secretary of state in US history said in many ways being a woman has worked to her advantage on the job
“I flirt a bit and, you know, it's not so hard for some foreign minister who is mad to send me roses and then kiss me on both cheeks and we move right along,” Albright said.
Albright, sworn in as the 64th secretary of state in January 1997, related a story from Middle East peace talks in Paris this year — “something like out of a movie” — in which she chased down Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and convinced him not to leave the summit, “all in high heels and hoping that I wouldn't fall on my face”.
Albright said she is pleased that her successor is Colin Powell, the first black nominated to the position. “It is the most amazing symbol of America that the first female secretary can be followed by the first African-American, and I am very, very glad that he will do that.”
She said she plans to spend time writing a book, which she said will help her connect to her origins in the former Czechoslovakia, where she was born. Albright has said she learned of her Jewish ancestry only after she was nominated in 1996.
She also said her grandchildren, instead of running to the television screen to see their grandmother, will “have a nice ordinary grandmother with a lap”. (SD-Agencies)
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