It was a strange sight.Īnyway, this is a fascinating if rather long first-person account of life on the way to the top, and then at the top, of American politics.
But the Banski Dvor is literally across the road from the Hotel Bosna, the front doors being less than 100 metres apart the American motorcade was literally longer than the distance it needed to travel. The US government took over the central Hotel Bosna for the day I was among the crowds that watched as the official motorcade took the Secretary of State from the hotel to the President’s offices in the main government building, the Banski Dvor.
My closest encounter with Madeleine Albright was in Banja Luka in the summer of 1997, when she descended on the Bosnian Serb capital with the full force of the State Department to visit the local leader, President Biljana Plavšić.
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