Word: colins
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...BEAMED WITH PRIDE AS I READ ABOUT former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell [Cover Story, July 10]. He is witty, charming, handsome, distinguished, sensitive to others, eloquent, lavishly talented and possessed of a great sense of humor. He is our Mr. America. Who can find a reason not to support Powell for President? ELWOOD WATSON Orono, Maine...
...ONLY COULD COLIN POWELL BE America's first black President, he could be the country's first independent President. George Washington, the first President of our country, did not seek the office. He was persuaded to preside over the Constitutional Convention because he realized he held the key to creating a new nation. Powell, not unlike Washington, holds the key to changing, for the better, the country he has fought for. He could overcome many problems that are a result of our two-party system. Powell says he wants America to live as a family. He should run for President...
...core of the problem for Colin Powell is that no matter which course his candidacy would take, either as a Republican-challenging the party's titular leaders and current front runner-or as an independent, the very act of his running would disrupt the settled pattern of American politics...
Anyone? Even a third-party candidate like, say, Colin Powell, who'd probably be as leery as anyone else about the notion of privatizing Social Security? "Maybe," says Michael Steinhardt, the hedge-fund guru who chairs the Progressive Foundation, which will publish the manifesto. Steinhardt is one of about two dozen wealthy Democrats behind the project, a roster that includes entertainment mogul Barry Diller; investment bankers Steve Rattner, Felix Rohatyn and Barrie Wigmore; and entrepreneurs Mitch Hart, who started Electronic Data Systems with Ross Perot, and Sandy Robertson, who assembled much of the California support so vital to Clinton...
...cover story this week heralds the new political season, the time when the list of candidates for the presidency begins to get pared down to the eventual nominees. At this juncture the most interesting prospect is a man who is not running -- not yet, at least: Colin Powell. To assess the enigmatic general, we turned to one of our wisest and most experienced journalists, John Stacks...