You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. In his new memoir, The Great Crisis, the former secretary of state describes how his wife asked him to give his son a puppy to kill the day he was born. Powell writes that he did so and “knew he’d done the wrong thing in some important sense, I do not know why.” Powell’s memoir has gone viral on social media. But his description of his mistake is hardly surprising, considering that the very first page of his memoir is a letter he wrote in 1988, shortly afterYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. Remember him? He was that other guy, the one I’m trying to imagine on the evening news, wearing a black turtleneck, wisecracks coming out his mouth, laughing with the audience. Powell, you’d have thought, was the first American President to be honored with a Nobel Prize. And, of course, he was an incredibly impressive Secretary of State. The man I’m quoting this week is a much more modest man, and, as a historian of diplomacy, I thoughtYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. The man I thought had “lost his marbles” was actually a highly effective secretary of state, and a decent public speaker. Powell is a great man with a good heart who never compromised his beliefs. In my opinion, he was a very powerful secretary of state, a major positive figure in America’s foreign policy in the first Bush administration. Here’s why.
I don’t think you have to understand the international political scene in order to understand where Powell is coming from. You can get
title: You won’t believe this about Colin Powell.
You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. In his new memoir, The Great Crisis, the former secretary of state describes how his wife asked him to give his son a puppy to kill the day he was born. Powell writes that he did so and “knew he’d done the wrong thing in some important sense, I do not know why.” Powell’s memoir has gone viral on social media. But his description of his mistake is hardly surprising, considering that the very first page of his memoir is a letter he wrote in 1988, shortly afterYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. Remember him? He was that other guy, the one I’m trying to imagine on the evening news, wearing a black turtleneck, wisecracks coming out his mouth, laughing with the audience. Powell, you’d have thought, was the first American President to be honored with a Nobel Prize. And, of course, he was an incredibly impressive Secretary of State. The man I’m quoting this week is a much more modest man, and, as a historian of diplomacy, I thoughtYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. The man I thought had “lost his marbles” was actually a highly effective secretary of state, and a decent public speaker. Powell is a great man with a good heart who never compromised his beliefs. In my opinion, he was a very powerful secretary of state, a major positive figure in America’s foreign policy in the first Bush administration. Here’s why.
I don’t think you have to understand the international political scene in order to understand where Powell is coming from. You can get
title: You won’t believe this about Colin Powell.
You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a straight shooter. He never has made a deal with the devil; he has always walked away from one. My mother told me that once, and she also said that her father could not have made a deal with the devil, because he knew the devil was a liar. Colin Powell is a straight shooter.
You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a straight shooter. He never has made a deal with the devil; he has always walked away from one. MyYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell.
He says he didn’t want to play the national security card as much as he used to. That he wanted to be a public speaker. But the truth is he’s been going back and forth between being a politician and a policy maker for years now, he just didn’t know it.
Powell was elected vice president of the United States in 2008. He was going to be the point man for the president on the economy.
Then it got to be a little bitYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a very different person from the one we used to know. We used to think that he was a really good guy. He did his homework, worked his ass off, and stayed up late on weekends. And he was a nice kid. I used to call him Uncle Colin because it was a lot like being on Uncle Henry in one’s teenage years. Uncle Colin would always answer one’s phone calls. He was a very caring person, just like his
title: You won’t believe this about Colin Powell.
You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a straight shooter. He never has made a deal with the devil; he has always walked away from one. My mother told me that once, and she also said that her father could not have made a deal with the devil, because he knew the devil was a liar. Colin Powell is a straight shooter.
You won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a straight shooter. He never has made a deal with the devil; he has always walked away from one. MyYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell.
He says he didn’t want to play the national security card as much as he used to. That he wanted to be a public speaker. But the truth is he’s been going back and forth between being a politician and a policy maker for years now, he just didn’t know it.
Powell was elected vice president of the United States in 2008. He was going to be the point man for the president on the economy.
Then it got to be a little bitYou won’t believe this about Colin Powell. He is a very different person from the one we used to know. We used to think that he was a really good guy. He did his homework, worked his ass off, and stayed up late on weekends. And he was a nice kid. I used to call him Uncle Colin because it was a lot like being on Uncle Henry in one’s teenage years. Uncle Colin would always answer one’s phone calls. He was a very caring person, just like his