Madeleine Albright used jewelry as a diplomatic tool

Sometimes my pins themselves would become a part of the conversation. Queen Elizabeth II often wears pins too, and since we have that in common, I sent her a note about it. But there was one particular time I really made a mistake with something that I wore. It had to do with a funny picture taken of President [Bill] Clinton, Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen, and me in the green room at the 50th anniversary of NATO [in 1999]. We were doing the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” gestures, and though we looked like crazy people, the picture ended up in Time magazine.