Maddy Albright’s home for sale

[Anonymous]

Albright subsequently wrote a book about her Jewish roots in Czechoslovakia. If she had known of her Jewish background all along and was covering it up, one would hardly expect her to draw further attention to it by writing a book about the matter (and please spare us "she actually had to write a book about it just to prove that she had never known previously").

Albright was also a surprisingly effective businesswoman. Albright Stonebridge (now Dentons ASG) which she headed for two decades is one of the best firms of its kind. Someone with no leadership skills (or whatever the silly assertions being made here are) wouldn't have been able to make that transition as well as she did.

I say that as someone who was no great fan of her performance at State. But the character assassination is unwarranted and unfair to a dedicated public servant, and reflects poorly not on Albright but on the commenters.

Her comment about Iraq, btw, was about Saddam Hussein's explicit (and undisputed) refusal to comply with the UN resolutions placed on Iraq subsequent to its invasion of Kuwait, and to the sanctions on Iraq that would remain in place until he did. Albright shouldn't have allowed herself to be trapped into making a statement like that that could sound like she was endorsing the consequences, but the issue remains a salient one, especially this week -- thuggish leaders who are prepared to hold their own people hostage to their policy objectives shouldn't expect to be able to use that as leverage with the global community.

[Anonymous]

Was it staged? Few of the furnishings look like what I would have expected her to own. I would have expected much more international souvenirs.

[Anonymous]

Business?! She traded access and privilege. She was pretty vile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was it staged? Few of the furnishings look like what I would have expected her to own. I would have expected much more international souvenirs.

Got cleaned out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calling her Maddy, unless you knew her personally and closely, is disrespectful

She was a pretty crappy person, so it’s ok

[Anonymous]

this is the real estate forum!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People around DC say she was pretty horrible in real life/work. Unless allegedly she thought you were someone important for her promotion.

It was in her role as U.N. ambassador in 1996 that Albright uttered the most infamous words of her career, in an appearance on “60 Minutes.”

The show’s correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Albright about the effect that U.N. sanctions were having on Iraqi society, saying, “We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Albright responded with chilling equanimity: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”

Also, her whole self made thing was a myth. She was married to a Guggenheim relative (so connected and powerful), dabbled, fundraised and presto entered the workforce full time in the ripe middle age at super high positions and never looked back.

She forgot she was Jewish until the Post wrote an article — the article is quite something:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/23/madeleine-albright-jewish/

DCUM gonna DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is the real estate forum!

Well yeah but it’s entitled Albright’s house so it’s material. Some people care if there was some history in or pall over a property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling her Maddy, unless you knew her personally and closely, is disrespectful

She was a pretty crappy person, so it’s ok

If you have to demand respect…

Anyway, maybe check if all or just some neighbors agree. Who knows what disputes you might inherit?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.sothebysrealty.com/ttrsir/eng/sales/detail/766-l-905-6me8xx/1318-34th-st-nw-georgetown-washington-dc-20007

Thoughts?

How much you think it’ll go for

Wall to wall carpet? Eew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calling her Maddy, unless you knew her personally and closely, is disrespectful

NP. Couldn’t care less about being disrespectful.

But - OP is clearly a huge d-bag to say it that way. Real inside the beltway guy! Pleated khaki, political debates at the dinner table dweeb.

It’s like how one of our GR guys early in the last decade would report to the members that “Barack told me he would sign it” and “Barack gave me a signal that he would support us.”

At least it was gratifying to see all the eye rolls in the audience!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People around DC say she was pretty horrible in real life/work. Unless allegedly she thought you were someone important for her promotion.

It was in her role as U.N. ambassador in 1996 that Albright uttered the most infamous words of her career, in an appearance on “60 Minutes.”

The show’s correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Albright about the effect that U.N. sanctions were having on Iraqi society, saying, “We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Albright responded with chilling equanimity: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”

Also, her whole self made thing was a myth. She was married to a Guggenheim relative (so connected and powerful), dabbled, fundraised and presto entered the workforce full time in the ripe middle age at super high positions and never looked back.

She forgot she was Jewish until the Post wrote an article — the article is quite something:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/23/madeleine-albright-jewish/

Her dad trained her and also Condeleeza Rice.

[Anonymous]

How do all these government officials on low salaries end up wealthy multimillionaires?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People around DC say she was pretty horrible in real life/work. Unless allegedly she thought you were someone important for her promotion.

It was in her role as U.N. ambassador in 1996 that Albright uttered the most infamous words of her career, in an appearance on “60 Minutes.”

The show’s correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Albright about the effect that U.N. sanctions were having on Iraqi society, saying, “We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”

Albright responded with chilling equanimity: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”

Also, her whole self made thing was a myth. She was married to a Guggenheim relative (so connected and powerful), dabbled, fundraised and presto entered the workforce full time in the ripe middle age at super high positions and never looked back.

She forgot she was Jewish until the Post wrote an article — the article is quite something:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/23/madeleine-albright-jewish/

+1. and she wasn't called "Maddy". Why do liberals here assume that anything liberal is good and needs to be praised without doing the most basic google searches? "Oooo, I'm a an ignorant DCUM woman and need to virture signal but have no idea what I'm talking about" .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do all these government officials on low salaries end up wealthy multimillionaires?

Ask Javanka.