Trent Lott: “Mr. President, today is a historic day for the Senate, for the Department of State, and for the United States. Today, we…”

“Mr. President, today is a historic day for the Senate, for the Department of State, and for the United States. Today, we will confirm America's 63d Secretary of State. Madeline Albright will be the first woman to hold our country's highest diplomatic post. Most of our Members are aware of Ambassador Albright's compelling personal history. As a child, she was forced to flee her native Czechoslovakia from the century's two great tyrannies: Nazi Germany and Soviet Communism. First-hand, she learned that freedom is not free, and that resistance to aggression is imperative. Ambassador Albright is an American by choice. She has served her adopted land with distinction--at the National Security Council in the Carter administration, in politics and in the academic world, and most recently as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.”