Word: alma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final week Powell tightened his circle of advisers to a group of three: Alma, Armitage and Duberstein. At one meeting early in the week, Powell was close enough to a yes to discuss the creation of an exploratory committee. Duberstein talked to two lawyers about how to set it up. The group also considered talking to Charles Kelly, who ran Citizens for Colin Powell, about tapping into his organization, but they decided to hold off until Powell was firmer about saying...
...friend, not a cheerleader. "I can't help you, buddy," he said. "It's the most frustrating thing in my life that I can't. If you make a decision, I can help you. But in the end this is your decision--not mine, not your kids', not even Alma...
...that if any member of your family is against your running, don't do it. Powell knew that for the first time in 33 years, his family had a husband and father, someone who was around for the grandchildren. In the final days, it was also becoming clearer that Alma's opposition was "deep, heartfelt, immutable," says Armitage. "And without his family's being squared away, I don't see how he could develop the necessary passion...
SELF-POSSESSED AS USUAL, ALMA POWELL IGNORED THE little chair that had been set up for her onstage and took her place at her husband's side. She looked at him not with a stagy gaze of adoration but with the warm, sometimes amused expression that often flows from her blue-green eyes. She fielded questions easily, even had fun cutting off one of Sam Donaldson's follow-ups. But more revealing than anything she said was the superb little hip check she used to push Powell aside so she could step up to a question--a gesture so swift...
Colin Powell has needed a lie detector lately. "All these people were treating him as if he's on the right hand of You Know Who," says one of the Powells' closest friends. "That's seductive to Colin. It's not at all seductive to Alma. She's not ambitious either for him or for her. There was a part of him that wanted this, but there was no part of her that...