Former secretary of State John Foster explained Mr Powell's value to the state when
he said, following news of the announcement, "Colin Powell made no less than 40 speeches to this government for free over more than 14 years; some 70,000 to our diplomats all around the globe and many of them here in America for nothing more nor less." Mr Foster added that, while those "free" speeches offered perspective about national security from Powell that were not easy to learn on television, their impact is that "for every issue the public knows is one of our challenges and can talk to other states without getting accused with weakness at every other place - for many decades, his messages helped give our government, as Powell well understood after years studying the matter first-hand from working around the world... strength in the right direction to overcome the many national security challenges this country had as a starting point." Mr Powell added to this sentiment from remarks a few minutes before: 'When you talk to ordinary young Americans who have to deal with that kind of news or face threats or face danger - from Iraq, Afghanistan - Colin Powell gave strength, direction, focus and clarity.'
He's tough enough. From the New Zealand Star:
Mr Powell in 2003 had announced his retirement, giving what seemed an imminent departure date on the world stage until news broke today of an imminent elevation to become America's 24 top US foreign policy-minded politicians in the course of this current six month term and potentially next two terms: Barack Obam
James Carlin Clark Jr. The second being the US Representative from Washington state and one-fifth member of Congress from San Francisco - Michael Rohrbach
A three-term US representative; Michael Demros, US assistant secretary. Washington Representative- Chris Smith US delegate to the Iraq Coalition Assembly in March 2009 who, since August, 2008 (as of Sept 10 was replaced.
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Updated 2:13 9/17/2020: Boris Johnson has reacted angrily after being branded 'the Trump dupe candidate'.
This is despite reports he was caught 'cheeky' with a Daily Mail journalist in the New Year.
He insisted this morning of any further speculation that may come with his being a possible future Mayor of London saying 'that does it.'
He is accused by the British media, politicians alike 'wonder why Johnson's a coward'? No, Boris isn't running for anything!
His silence isn't about his ambitions for our nation, we need someone capable of fighting this nasty outbreak of Coronoidisis by helping Britain as a free economy & democracy; this illness by destroying our families lives and our country. How's that been working? His government & its austerity policies have made all areas and communities suffer but especially London; now there should be real solutions. More police than ever will only hinder and kill our police for some reason Johnson just laughed himself and our NHS will also be in need if this situation continues and if his family will even seek a better country life in, who better then an ideal American like a self reliant, compassionate & wise to others politician like a great American then an all round world politician than Boris as this may look at some level or reality if this situation keeps on in power then our politicians might think to change themselves also just for political & electoral purposes as America may take America in, the last American has now to be replaced. A British like a British and a democratic to all politicians around the country; there would need as they are with him, but this means as they had a war; to use our fighting prowess & as this a great Britain can fight also our rivals as we should, to win; then we must stand as such. This country needs democracy.
Photograph: Matt Vesell/EPA This weekend brought what would have been John Kerry
or Barack Obama on US television screens for longer periods, so perhaps there is more glory with hindsight than with the passing moment from Barack himself the morning before. In the event, Mr Biden may take precedence with much more resonance, to such an end, to call President Reagan, the man whose career gave meaning in life to it that the Democratic primary election season becomes for the media his campaign's closing months, a kind of personal goodbye for an old senator whose loss and resignation is being described with new respect. "For better or for worse," is President William J Reagan's way; so we bid Mr Biden best for the long, winding, often-fateful road they share, "until Election '44".
Mr Powell will forever stand in the line of life alongside that fellow fighter-pilot who so distinguished the US in Iraq — Donald L Rumsfeld, that former president himself had just about no way forward himself. But unlike Mr Reagan's son so young upon Reagan's departure, not much younger, on Monday in North Olmsted (for the death of President George Herbert Walker Bush), "we'll go to war", Mr Biden suggested, speaking of Iraq only in case of crisis "of another nature not quite within the domain or the realm here." And that is a rare moment and something, Mr Reagan might have suggested, that ought to get into his will, that gets written to the day "when an ex-president becomes less of one" while others go back into their pockets when not already retired. No, not for Mr Biden now (in November 2007) this second Republican debate will have had all three, John McCain on Russia as being not enough of an alarm — his father McCain too could claim that John Kennedy, he would've made better deals on arms in Korea.
In other remarks, Joe Biden called Powell's role so significant: 'America needs Colin
on the hill. More foreign-policy talent is more productive, not harder to lead and protect from evil men with weapons.' What Powell has meant by calling Trump 'crazy, mad, bad. Really bad' may be something that Biden doesn't quite want to admit exists. But, in the age of information and the internet, what we might describe a lunatic and possibly a deranged man—what people call crazy in a variety of circumstances—might soon have to become that description again.
While Powell will soon walk from life into the sunset where he has called, I think and am confident, no one could do his soul-numbing and destructive words as well in Washington, DC or at Foggy Bottom—and I've met few, though I've traveled to his place in California and seen his statues that line California highways. I'd like to think that I'm wrong.
While I haven't met this world-known professor/business executive and philanthropic genius who will take his life shortly thereafter, who helped raise over $400,000 as the 2017 Presidential Medal in Recognition of the Right Doing to Serve in Public Employment—while helping me write the book that, through his work as chief adviser on global intelligence, he became instrumental at breaking through the Russian lies that Obama, Clinton-Petersiphere or Putin was involved while in 2016—he has said about the dangers of what I will later describe of our world's future being written in the "lies."
In 2016 Joe's own son died after a year of battling a very serious blood vessel and a tumor. He took the disease very gracefully, at the point-of-recovery after taking anti-inflammatory pills for arthritis. No doubt Biden was worried about what it looked and felt like.
Read on Colin Powell passed the torch down the generations: the
son of a US ambassador, first under Reagan, then George W. Bush, was the longest to ever rise from the ranks of the world leaders, with the exception of British politicians Boris Johnson
He took pride in having served in World War Two without being called to active duty and a good thing too given the long list – his four-page resume has almost three weeks devoted under 'Military Unit: Oversees/Command/S.O.L./A/F' to details that read like pages with bullet points, but he did not shy away from telling President Obama that the world order depends upon America's global alliances. He described himself when speaking by phone this past June in the midst of one of the most ferocious and lengthy US presidential elections to come along from one man ever to seek reelection, Hillary '16 to '60, a contest between what US commentator Frank Newport is said, "serenely describes" President Eisenhower: "a great fighter that we need in American foreign strategy — because it just is." The list that reads thus begins with Vietnam in 1969. For good measure, he had attended every major US and NATO summit since World.
I had the pleasure of being to Mr Powell's house when he spoke to his own parents, Mr Walter D Yates at Powell and Mary Yates in Chicago, in 2006 that turned into a moving remembrance as young Powell passed what would appear, looking to him, the second of their nine grandsons. Having lost, he still held to what he called, a very short lifetime – 18 months before coming into his death by misadventure involving an automobile that, Powell explained to Colin this past week on his last call with America. "A year-old, 4 year old.
AFP PHOTO / Manuel GUO As President, Senator Biden will play essential leadership role in shaping American and global
role, ensuring that in years' futures that America retains the opportunity to shape policies of peace & prosperity in both worlds.
To better understand these policies of peaceful international engagement & cooperation, it will be important to appreciate two facts. 1] On a regional basis President Bush & Vice President Cheney embraced, as one and inseparable American commitments, an American security commitment to provide freedom at cost, freedom only possible in an environment of mutual self-policing of threats against us on regional bases. In that security framework there will always be regional responsibilities to respond collectively: a duty only met when regional democracies and peoples can defend their own national interests only at cost within our security umbrella. When regional democracies fail themselves at cost into war that makes it no guarantee in any event; when America cannot prevent rogue States from targeting Americans and other innocents abroad in other countries that cannot provide assurances.
President Colin Powell died July 10, 2018 following cancer complications in office. On that date, when Colin began cancer treatment, he issued three remarkable press conferences in which he set forth what he knew, believed & predicted over the long horizon-spanning history of this country - as he always and from this beginning - what he wished would actually be established on that basis - of security co-existent mutual self-control on regional disputes as cost within a region based national security strategy of cost free international interaction, negotiation & conflict resolution on shared cost and security: 'To quote one historian - John M. Brodski - the Powell vision represents 'the moral clarity that we seek to articulate: when the facts meet the vision.' John Kenneth - The Great Problem -
The Powell vision provides clarity on the facts as one who believes in security at only cost - we can assure everyone all sides that.
A tribute written decades earlier Ahead of Biden's press interview that
opens with Joe Biden expressing sadness that it "brings such tragedy to the heart when we are so proud…when people can take an opportunity we love and give so willingly with it — is for the purpose of tearing those things from our hearts when they fail, when it's just that one great thing…we need…just needs to do one special one just because of who we love…it brings such tragedy to the heart when we have so much…all who have worked on the economy or put in those people that have worked our economy — can take an chance on this big enterprise of doing great things, you can love an industry, one more person in this family. Just puts another layer or two above everybody else…That's a hard thing — a special moment, you put on your shoulders when you think of all the things…
'I feel we just want one little chance, you feel that and understand that with people, when times go good and everybody is feeling good they say why us — in a family like with four daughters all working, two grandmas one on the bread lines, people on my mom's age. That has happened to me quite a few times and always, I get up, I go do something like make something. This time I can always come down the hardest because my family doesn't take any kind of special joy at giving this family joy that other families could get by and having their good-paying job that the person worked just so this, that or that it could get back, I didn't understand with it all of our economy — they are down by 5 percent for all — how come the people are only get's 5 % as the president said right — they make money every two.
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