Colin Powell
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was sworn in as the 65th Secretary of State in 2001 after unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate. He served ... More »
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Bill Clinton Named Father of the Year, Chelsea Presents Dad With Award
" Past honorees include Ronald Reagan, Dick Van Dyke, Al Gore, Colin Powell and Shaquille O'Neal... Read more »
Former US President Bill Clinton named 'Father of the Year'
Since the Father of the Year award was first bestowed in 1941, the citation has gone to Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, Generals Douglas MacArthur, Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, and sports notables Shaquille O'Neal and George Foreman. Years after ... Read more »
Susan Rice's Benghazi sacrifice pushes Obama confidante to greater heights
Foreign leaders and their aides can wonder whether the secretary of state speaks with the president's voice: Colin Powell, for instance, was famously out of sync with the foreign policy of President George W Bush. No foreign capital has that worry about the national security adviser. ... Read more »
Hillary Rodham Clinton To Speak In Los Angeles At American Jewish University
The American Jewish University took the lead in bringing world leaders, decision-makers and high level political figures to an LA audience with the PLS, which launched in 2001 and featured many extraordinary speakers, including President Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Tony Blair, Colin Powell... Read more »
CFR president Richard Haass
He previously held various posts in the defense and state departments, was a principal adviser to Colin Powell and also served in the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He was U.S. coordinator for policy on the future of Afghanistan and the lead U.S. official ... Read more »
The Almanac, Celebrity Birthdays, Today in History, June 8
In 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he stood by his testimony before the United Nations that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction before the war. In 2004, police in Milan, Italy, arrested an Egyptian man suspected of masterminding Madrid commuter train bombings that ... Read more »
Human rights activist to Obama: Press Chinese president to end one child policy
China’s ruthless population control program is aided heavily by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that the Obama administration is funding to the tune of $50 million a year despite U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s statement in 2002 that “UNFPA’s support of, and ... Read more »
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.: 17 WWII veterans to be honored by French Consulate
Notable Americans who have received the award include: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Dwight D. Eisenhower and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. A Long Island landlord is being accused of planting hidden cameras around his house to spy on renters, including families with ... Read more »
Jersey Journal front and back page news: Wednesday June 5
A Union City school named for Colin Powell gave a warm welcome to the former Secretary of State. And some Democrats at the polls during the primaries were surprised they weren't allowed to vote for Gov. Chris Christie. In Sports, Secaucus' softball team lost in extra innings in the state ... Read more »
Oliver Law: Integrating the Military and Our Hearts
General Colin Powell was three months old when Oliver Law, at 33-years-old a tall, broad-shouldered African American from Texas, became the first black commander of an American army. On June 12, 1937—75 years ago—Law was selected by a committee of three... Full Article at Good General ... Read more »
View From the Global Tank: Appointing Rice, Power Won’t Alter Obama’s Policy on Syria, Russia
In fact, Rice could become as much of a competitor in that domain for Secretary of State John Kerry – whose current job she has coveted – as Henry Kissinger was for William Rogers or, more recently, Condoleezza Rice (no relation to Susan Rice) was for Colin Powell. However, her sometimes ... Read more »
Obama Can Now Claim Executive Privilege to Keep Rice From Testifying; Only Fox's McFarland Notes It...
Rice might have been able to overcome the Benghazi debacle if she had other strong credentials, for example being a senior military officer like Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, or a respected academic like Henry Kissinger and Zbig Brzezinski. But Susan Rice is none of these. When the ... Read more »
The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : GI Told He Can’t Read Levin, Hannity, Limbaugh
You remember someone named Colin Powell, yes? Here is an excerpt from General Powell’s memoirs My American Journey, in which Powell discusses his 1964 assignment to Fort Benning, Georgia. In the fall of 1964, of course, the race for president between liberal President ... Read more »
Albert R. Hunt: Is Obama willing to fight for right terror policy? » The Commercial Appeal
There were more measured voices that, on balance, were positive: Colin Powell, the secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, and Harold Koh, the former dean of Yale Law School and State Department legal counsel in the first Obama administration, who privately advocated for ... Read more »
Former CIA head David Petraeus joins buyout firm
* Colin Powell, former secretary of state and four-star army general, who chairs the advisory board of Leeds Equity Partners * Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state, who serves on the board of private equity firm Forstmann, Little & Company. While private equity firms are the ... Read more »
From Nightmares to Revelations
In addition to his polemics, he writes plays (The Unreasoning Mask, co-authored with his wife, D’Arcy, and The Agony of Colin Powell), satires (see “Advancing the Civilized State: Inch by Bloody Inch” in The Rape), and poetry (Psalms for the 21st Century). His most recent fictional work ... Read more »
John M. (Mike) McConnell
During Desert Shield/Storm and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Mr. McConnell served as the Intelligence Officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell, and the Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney. From 1992 to 1996 he served as the Director of the National ... Read more »
OpEdNews Article: Making the hero pay: A Nation's Betrayal
Secretary of State Colin Powell substantiated the lie. The military ignored the lie and got down to the dirty work of committing war crimes and devastating a civilian population. The results: hundreds of thousands dead, a corrupt government is slowly turning back into a dictatorship... Read more »
The American Spectator : The Old Days
Major Colin Powell, who at the time was the Asst. Chief of Staff (Operations) for the Americal Division – and effectively the division’s public affairs officer – reportedly said to Donald Wise of London’s Daily Mirror that doing that part of his job was “ like providing public relations ... Read more »
Quick Hit: Susan Rice selected as National Security Advisor
She is the second woman to hold the position (following fellow black woman, and fellow Rice-last named Condoleezza Rice) and the third African American, the first being Colin Powell. The decision is already receiving backlash from Republican lawmakers who believe that the handling of ... Read more »
