Téa Leoni plays Elizabeth McCord, a fictional Secretary of State on a TV show entitled “Madam Secretary.” The show is beginning its 5th season, and the opening episode features former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright (a Clinton appointee), Colin Powell (a Bush appointee), and Hillary Clinton (an Obama appointee). The three former Secretaries are on the show to advise the fictional Secretary how to respond to a crisis.
In an interview, former Secretary Albright said that she, Powell, and Clinton were good friends. She said the first person to call her after she had been named Secretary was Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s Secretary of State, and that she often talked to her predecessors for advice.
That was when things were normal; when Democratic and Republican secretaries thought their duty was to the country, not to an ideology or to enabling a President who is bent on destroying this country’s relationship with the rest of the world.
You can read about the interview in an article in today’s Times by Bruce Fretts entitled “Very Authentic Fiction.”
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