{"id":225207,"date":"2022-03-23T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/madeleine-albright-first-woman-to-serve-as-secretary-of-state-dies-at-84"},"modified":"2022-03-23T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:43:00","slug":"madeleine-albright-first-woman-to-serve-as-secretary-of-state-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/madeleine-albright-first-woman-to-serve-as-secretary-of-state-dies-at-84","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright prepares to testify at a House Foriegn Affairs Committee hearing on Iraq in Washington on Jan. 17, 2007. (Stephen Crowley\/The New York Times) Madeleine K. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to serve as secretary of state, died on Wednesday in Washington. She was 84. The cause was cancer, her daughter Anne said. Enveloped by a veil of family secrets hidden from her for most of her life, Albright rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs and a White House counselor on national security. Under President Bill Clinton, she became the country&#8217;s representative to the United Nations (1993-97) and secretary of state (1997-2001), making her the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government at the time. It was not until after she became<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright prepares to testify at a House Foriegn Affairs Committee hearing on Iraq in Washington on Jan. 17, 2007. (Stephen Crowley\/The New York Times)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,91,42,41,43],"class_list":["post-225207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-relations","tag-obituaries","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}