On May 15, 1937, Madeleine Albright, America’s highest-ranking woman in government and first female secretary of state, was born Maria Jana Korbelova in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Now a professor at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Albright shared the advice she offered to Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton about the possibility of being the first woman president in a January 2008 interview with Tavis Smiley.

Charlie Rose also engaged Albright in conversation about the election, and what she would write if she were preparing a memo for the next president of the United States, defining America’s role in the world. In Charlie Rose’s most recent interview with Albright, they discuss her book Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership.