Hillary Clinton: Madeleine Albright 'understood viscerally the value of freedom'
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Hillary Clinton remembered former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as "a great person and a wonderful friend to me and literally so many others," in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour Thursday.
Albright died Wednesday at 84 years old from cancer, according to a family statement.
"I knew that she was sick," Clinton said, noting that she spoke with Albright "about two weeks ago" by phone to discuss Ukraine. "Until the very end, Christiane, she was strong, lucid, and very much of the same mind she always had been."
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