{"id":33565,"date":"2016-07-30T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=33565"},"modified":"2016-07-30T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T05:58:35","slug":"madeleine-albrights-new-hillary-brooch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/madeleine-albrights-new-hillary-brooch\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Albright’s New Hillary Brooch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always meant to write about Madeleine Albright’s Read My Pins<\/em><\/a> book. Albright — the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State (from 1997 to 2001) — is known for cleverly matching her large collection of brooches to important occasions.<\/p>\n

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This is my copy. Click to buy your own.<\/p><\/div>\n

The book explains that it all started in 1994, after Albright, then the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., criticized Saddam Hussein. The government-controlled Iraqi press responded with a poem about Albright that called her an “unparalleled serpent.” Soon after, she had to meet with Iraqi officials and, as she contemplated what to wear, Albright recalled a snake pin that she had purchased years earlier. She wore it, but she didn’t expect anyone to make the connection. <\/p>\n

“However, upon leaving the meeting, I encountered a member of the UN press corps who was familiar with the poem; she asked why I had chosen to wear that particular pin. As the television cameras zoomed in on the brooch, I smiled and said that it was just my way of sending a message.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After that, she was off and running!<\/p>\n

The book includes a 1996 photo of Albright talking to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in a ladies’ room. Albright says, “I was proud to be the first woman to serve as secretary of state and delighted when Secretary Clinton became one of my successors.”<\/p>\n

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The photo with Clinton is on the left page<\/p><\/div>\n

Naturally, that photo and text is paired with the image of a pin created by Vivian Shimoyama<\/a>, “showing the glass ceiling in its ideal condition: shattered.”<\/p>\n

I was excited to see the glass-ceiling brooch again on Thursday, the last night of the Democratic convention, when Hillary Clinton became the first woman in history to become a major party nominee for president.<\/p>\n

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After tonight, this pin will be the only piece of glass ceiling left at #DNCinPHL<\/a>! #tweetmypins<\/a> #ImWithHer<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sm5UUQiVw4<\/a><\/p>\n

— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) July 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n