Perspective: Madeleine Albright and Fred Malek are an unlikely, inspiring bipartisan friendship
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist March 28 at 2:34 PM In the polarized, bitterly divided Washington of today, the lions of the right and left shouldn’t do dinners together, right?
Malek was the son of a Czech American beer-truck driver from an immigrant neighborhood of the Chicago suburbs. He went to U.S. Military Academy, saw combat in Vietnam as an Army Ranger, served Republican presidents and became a corporate executive at Marriott and Northwest Airlines. He co-owned a baseball team with President George W. Bush. He was one of the driving forces in bringing baseball to the District. He was fabulously wealthy and wildly influential in Republican politics.
The bust of Vaclav Havel in the U.S. Capitol was Malek’s doing, as is the statue of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, who wrote the country’s Constitution right here in Washington and was a progressive feminist who took his wife’s name and pointedly included women in the Czechoslovak Constitution.
Was 50 years enough time to forgive what he’d done, which people still talked about in Washington this week when he died? Albright found out when she was 59 that her Catholic family was actually Jewish, that they fled Czechoslovakia to escape the Nazis and that members of her family had died in the Holocaust.“I decided that was something I didn’t want to hold [against him],” she told me. “I think we’ve all said and done things we wish we hadn’t. I didn’t know him at the time, and I judged who he was by what I knew of him when we were together.
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