Powell Colin (Colin Powell)

Powell Colin (Colin Powell)

Biography

1983-1987

In 1983, Colin Powell became Assistant Secretary of Defense, in 1986 - Deputy Director of the National Security Council.

In November 1987, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the post of national security adviser.

2001-2004

In 2001, after winning the presidential election of George Walker Bush, Powell took over as Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) in the new cabinet. Powell was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in a new post, becoming the first African-American to take such a high post in the presidential administration.

On February 5, 2003, he delivered a speech after which George W. Bush ordered the outbreak of war in Iraq. The Secretary of State then announced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that there was evidence. Later, such weapons were not found in Iraq.

The former secretary of state opposed the violent overthrow of Saddam Hussein and insisted that the operation in Iraq should not begin without consideration by the UN - this is why his famous speech with a test tube is connected.

On November 15, 2004, Powell announced his resignation as Secretary of State and left the George W. Bush administration after his first term. His successor was National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

2021: Death by COVID-19

October 18, 2021 it became known about the death of Colin Powell. The former US Secretary of State died at the age of 84 from complications caused by coronavirus (COVID-19) infection. At the same time, he was vaccinated. The name of the drug Powell was vaccinated is not reported.

We lost a wonderful and loving husband, father, grandfather and great American, "Powell's family said on a Facebook page.

Colin Powell will remain in the memory of contemporaries and descendants a tough politician, often making decisions that are not perfect from the point of view of other states, but, as a rule, beneficial for his home country.^[1]

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