What did she buy exactly?
After former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick advised her to “lose the professor clothes,” Madeleine Albright bought, “a lot of suits… and had a good time with it.”
She has a new book out called Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box. In an interview with Time, she explains how she used jewelry as a diplomatic tool intended to send messages to various world leaders such as Saddam Hussein (let’s hope it wasn’t this one) and Nelson Mandela.
Albright famously wore a gold snake pin after an Iraqi newspaper called her “an unparalleled serpent.”
She also shares some ideas for a pin that she would wear should she ever meet Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad–a dove and an eagle since a dove symbolizes peace but the eagle symbolizes that we need to stand firm on our policies.
More:
-Read about how Albright wore snail and turtle pins to express dissatisfaction at a slow-moving negotiation.
-Trying to make foreign policy “less foreign”