A final farewell in front of an audience of Democrats. On Wednesday, Joe Biden, the Obamas and the Clintons all attended the funeral of Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state who died aged 84 last month, which was held at the National Cathedral in Washington. “In the 20th and 21st centuries, freedom has had no better defender than Madeleine Korbel Albright,” assured the American president, who then addressed the daughters of Madeleine Albright: “Your mother was a force, a force of nature. With her kindness and her grace, her humanity and her intellect, she changed the course of history.”
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She also former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton took the floor to honor the one who was her friend, with whom she had discussed the situation in Russia two weeks before her death: “She repeated her warnings about the dangers of authoritarianism and fascism, with undeniable moral clarity”, she recalled, assuring that Madeleine Albright had warned “against the terrible invasion of Ukraine by Putin and the urgency of defending democracy at home and around the world”.