Madeleine Albright funeral: First female US Secretary of State laid to rest in Washington | FULL

The funeral service of Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, was held at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

00:39:47 - U.S. President Joe Biden delivers tribute
00:59:22 - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks
1:18:37 - Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks
1:42:10 - Anne K. Albright, Alice P. Albright, and Katharine M. Albright, the daughters of Madeleine Albright, pay tribute to their mother
2:16:14 - Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shares last reading

Attendees included: U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Albright's children. Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was also in attendance.

Albright died at 84 years old on March 23.

Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during the Second World War, was the first woman to hold that position. She was a tough-talking diplomat in an administration that hesitated to involve itself in the two biggest foreign policy crises of the 1990s: the genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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