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This weekend is my mother's 50th reunion from Wellesley. She invited me and my brothers to the dinner tonight, and we went. Partly it was to support her, but one of her classmates, who had spent some time in government serevice, spoke and answered some questions after dinner. The classmate was named Madeline Korbut when she was in college, but then married a guy named Albright. So she came and talked to the people about being in the state department.
She is, not surprisingly for someone who graduated from Wellesley, quite bright. She also, shockingly enough, has a poor opinion of the previous administration. Such as saying about trying to get peace in the Middle East, "President Bush created a road map, but never took it out of the glove compartment." Or, more directly, when a classmate asked her to compare the present foreign policy team vs. Bushes, even before the question was fully out, she said, "They [Obama's team] don't lie."
I heard her talk five years ago, when she came and talked to the last reunion. She was good then, too.
She is, not surprisingly for someone who graduated from Wellesley, quite bright. She also, shockingly enough, has a poor opinion of the previous administration. Such as saying about trying to get peace in the Middle East, "President Bush created a road map, but never took it out of the glove compartment." Or, more directly, when a classmate asked her to compare the present foreign policy team vs. Bushes, even before the question was fully out, she said, "They [Obama's team] don't lie."
I heard her talk five years ago, when she came and talked to the last reunion. She was good then, too.