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Former foreign secretary Jack Straw has paid tribute to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84.
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 Chris Wilkens/GettyFormer Secretary of State Colin Powell, who sadly passed away from COVID complications, will be remembered for many accomplishments and failings. His legacy will have detractors on the right (he was a sellout who endorsed Obama) and the left (he misled us about WMDs), but I can't help thinking what if he had been the future of the Republican Party?
Counterfactuals are always messy, but bear with me. There is reason to believe that Powell was Ronald Reagan's vision of the Republican Party's bright future. And Powell might well have defeated Bill Clinton in 1996. That would have made Powell America's first Black president. Assuming re-election, he would have been president when 9/11 happened. Everything thereafter would, likely, have been very different.
And, of course, it's hard to imagine a starker contrast than what eventually happened to America (and the GOP): President Donald J. Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.
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A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, secretary of state and national security adviser, Mr. Powell died on Monday of complications of Covid-19, his family said.
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He had been treated for multiple myeloma, a cancer of white blood cells in the bone marrow, which made vaccines less likely to protect him from severe Covid.
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As secretary of state, he reluctantly supported President George W. Bush's push to invade Iraq after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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The first Black secretary of state and the youngest chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell died of complications from COVID-19.
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Democratic Rep. David Price of North Carolina announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2022.
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With two weeks remaining in the historic 2008 presidential race, Colin Powell delivered a surprise announcement: He endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama and offered words of regret to his old friend, John McCain.
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George W. Bush called his former secretary of state "highly respected at home and abroad."
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 Former President Bush, on the passing of Colin Powell, calls the retired general and former secretary of state 'a great man'
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The Justice Department formally asked the Supreme Court Monday to step in and block a controversial Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy while legal challenges play out.
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When Colin Powell announced that he would not run for president in 1996, he also made a promise.
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