Thread by @CSojourner

I was at the UN right after the #GulfWar. I had something dreadful to say abt #SaddamHussein on a daily basis, which he deserved b/c he invaded #Kuwait. The Iraqi media compared me to an unparalleled serpent. I happened to have a snake pin, and wore it to my next meeting on Iraq.

The press asked me about it, I thought, “Well, this is fun.” On good days, I wore flowers butterflies & balloons, on bad days, all kinds of bugs & carnivorous animals, as an additional way of expressing what I was saying a visual way to deliver a message.

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I had an arrow pin that looked like a missile. When we negotiated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty the Russian foreign minister asked, “Is that one of your missile interceptors you’re wearing?” And I responded, “Yes. We make them very small. Let’s negotiate.”

Or, after we found that the Russians had planted a listening device—a “bug”—into a conference room near my office in the State Department, the next time I saw the Russians, I wore this huge bug. They got the message.

Albright wore this Arrow pin to a tense meeting w/ #Putin re: nuclear arms reduction. Putin asked if the pin she was wearing was “one of your interceptor missiles” she replied “Yes & as you can see, we know how to make them very small, so be ready to negotiate!
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"I spent many hours wrangling with the Palestinian leader about the need for compromise in the Middle East," she writes in her book, "Read My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat's Jewel Box" (HarperCollins, 2009). "My pin reflected my mood."

#MadelineAlbright's stylish snake pin!

If diplomacy was going well, she wore baubles & bows, if badly, bugs, bees to sting, mushrooms growing in the dark, and monkeys hearing, seeing and speaking no evil! What would she wear to #ImpeachmentTrialTwoPointOh? The fourth monkey! #DoNoEvil! #MadelineAlbright, #fashionista!

#MadelineAlbright #Fashionista

Beautiful @SpeakerPelosi #Fashionista has the most meaningful jewelry tho, she wears the #MaceOfTheRepublicBrooch, and chooses all the most authoritative moments to do so. Look's wonderful on her!

#TheMaceOfTheRepublicBrooch: Is fashioned after #TheMaceOfTheRepublic the ceremonial mace used to defend the House chamber, and we all know how much it needs defense!

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Beloved #RBG, #PatronSaintOfLiberals #ChampionOfWomen was also an impressive #Fashionista! She had particular meaningful collars for every occasion a #DissentCollar, a #PrideCollar, a #PricklyCollar to wear to #KavanaughConfirmation & even a #CovidCollar! time.com/5914834/ruth-b…

#RuthBaderGinsburg #DissentCollar

#RuthBaderGinsburg #PrideCollar

#RuthBaderGinsburg 2020 #CovidCollar

#RuthBaderGinsburg and she had this prickly sharp collar for #AngryRapeyDrunken #KavanaughConfirmation! #ILikeBeer!