In her tenure as the primary feminine U.S. secretary of state, Madeleine Albright was known as "Madam Secretary" as a proper greeting of respect. However the former diplomat, who died on Wednesday on the age of 84, additionally earned a nickname that translated from Spanish slang to English as "braveness" and "guts."

Throughout a 2014 dialog with radio host Michael Krasny on the Jewish Neighborhood Federation and Endowment Fund's Day of Philanthropy, Albright defined how she obtained the nickname "Madam Cojones," which was delivered to mild on social media shortly after the information of her dying.

Albright defined in the course of the interview that whereas she was serving as an envoy to the United Nations below then-President Invoice Clinton in 1996, "Cubans shot down unarmed civilian planes that had been flying over worldwide waters, piloted by Cuban-Individuals."

"And I stored getting calls from Washington saying, 'You have to get condemnation of the Cubans for this.' So what they did was ship me the transcript of what the Cuban pilots had been saying to one another as they had been chasing these unarmed planes round and every part was translated in English besides one phrase."

Albright stated that the transcript confirmed the Cuban pilots saying that that they had "cojones," and that the unarmed planes "do not have cojones."

The previous secretary of state stated that she held a press convention shortly after the incident wherein she got here up with the road: "It isn't cojones, it is cowardice."

"President Clinton thought it was one of the best line ever and he despatched me right down to Miami with the intention to be a part of the ceremony honoring the fallen pilots. And I am strolling into the Orange Bowl, via the tunnel that the [Miami] Dolphins are available, and 60,000 Cubans stood up and stated, 'Madam Cojones.' So that's the way it occurred," Albright stated.

On Wednesday, Albright's household introduced on Twitter that the 84-year-old former diplomat died from most cancers.

"Madeleine Albright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, was a local of Prague who got here to the USA as a refuge in 1948 and rose to the heights of American policy-making, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012, the nation's highest civil honor," the assertion learn.

Following the information of Albright's dying, quite a few U.S. politicians expressed their condolences on social media. Amongst them included former President Clinton, who stated in a press release: "Hillary and I are profoundly saddened by the passing of Madeleine Albright. She was one of many most interesting Secretaries of State, an impressive U.N. Ambassador, a superb professor, and a rare human being."

Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley wrote: "Saddened to listen to of the dying of Madeleine Albright, an achieved diplomat and trailblazer. My coronary heart is along with her family members as we speak, and her legacy of worldwide diplomacy lives on."

Equally, Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper known as Albright, "one of many nice overseas coverage voices of our time."

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In a 2014 interview, the previous U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defined how she obtained the nickname "Madam Cojones." Above, Albright speaks throughout a listening to on "Nationwide Safety Implications of the Rise of Authoritarianism Across the World" on Capitol Hill on February 26, 2019 in Washington,DC. The previous diplomat died on March 23, 2022, on the age of 84.Mandel Ngan/Getty