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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani then led the name-reading ceremony. Dignitaries such as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Secretary of State Colin Powell, celebrities such as Robert DeNiro and family members of those who died carried on where Giuliani left off, as a string quartet provided a backdrop of solemn music...
...Questioned about Ritter's assertion that the White House has no basis for its warnings about Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell politely pointed out that Ritter had been out of the intelligence chain for quite some time. What Powell didn't say, though, was that four years ago, when Ritter was on the ground, he appeared to be saying something a lot closer to what the Bush administration claims today: "I think the danger right now is that without effective inspections, without effective monitoring, Iraq can in a very short period of time measured in months, reconstitute chemical...
Secretary Of State Colin Powell has been a good soldier in public, even as he has had to fight for every small victory against Administration hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But he has privately grown more frustrated, and now, sources close to Powell tell TIME, he has a firm plan for his exit: he will step down at the end of President Bush's current term. "He will have done a yeoman's job of contributing over the four years," says a close aide. "But that's enough." The aide says Powell's view...
...overseas. He came to office largely ignorant of foreign affairs. His team split immediately--and deeply--after his Inauguration into two fiercely divided camps, and is already scarred by the pitched battles between the conservative wing, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, and the pragmatists under Secretary of State Colin Powell. Lacking his father's deep reservoir of experience to draw upon, how does Bush resolve his advisers' titanic disagreements? He goes with his gut. He relies on an instinctive sense of who is good and who is bad overseas--and then he sticks at all costs with the call...
Hunt remembers the weeks leading up to the 1993 commencement featuring Lt. Gen. Colin Powell as speaker as particularly stressful. Coming at the height of the national debate over gays in the military, Powell’s appearance drew heavy fire...