Former US Secretary of State, Colin Powell dies of COVID-19 complications
Sign up for free
Listen to this episode and many more. Enjoy the best podcasts on Spreaker!
Download and listen anywhere
Download your favorite episodes and enjoy them, wherever you are! Sign up or log in now to access offline listening.
Description
Former popular United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell has died of COVID-19 complications. He gave up the ghost on Monday at the age of 84, his family announced. The...
show moreThe first African-American secretary of state in 2001 under Republican President George W Bush was fully vaccinated.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American,” the family said in a statement, thanking the staff at the Walter Reid Medical Center “for their caring treatment”.
Obituary: Colin Powell
George W Bush was among the first to pay tribute to “a great public servant” as well as “a family man and a friend” who “was such a favourite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom – twice”.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair – who worked closely with Powell during the early years of the Iraq War – said he was someone of “immense capability and integrity” who was “a great companion, with a lovely and self-deprecating sense of humour”.
Mr Powell, a moderate Republican who broke with his party to endorse Barack Obama in 2008, became a trusted military adviser to a number of leading US politicians.
He also saw service and was wounded in Vietnam, an experience that later helped define his own military and political strategies.
However, he would say himself that his own legacy had been damaged by a speech to the United Nations Security Council which used faulty intelligence to back the invasion of Iraq.
Information
Author | Infographics Daily News |
Organization | Fadaka Studios - Web Radio. |
Website | - |
Tags |
Copyright 2024 - Spreaker Inc. an iHeartMedia Company