And I am forever grateful for his support of my candidacy for president and for our shared battle for the soul of the nation.
“He could drive his Corvette Stingray like nobody’s business - something I learned firsthand on the race track when I was Vice President. A trusted confidant in good and hard times,” Biden said. President Joe Biden echoed that praise in a statement Monday, declaring Powell “a patriot of unmatched honor and dignity” who “embodied the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat.” Marshall: He is a tower of strength and common sense.” “It’s a great day when a son of the South Bronx succeeds to the office first held by Thomas Jefferson.”īush also compared him to another diligent, straight-arrow military leader who became secretary of State: “I would say of Gen. Bush said in selecting him to lead the State Department in December 2000. Powell is an American hero, an American example and a great American story,” President-elect George W. Described frequently as the most popular American general since Dwight Eisenhower, Powell often was mentioned as a possible candidate for president, but he never elected to run. Powell also was the nation’s first African American national security adviser and the first African American chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the youngest person to serve in the latter post.
“We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.” “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment,” the Powell family said in its statement. With his death, the former soldier and statesman becomes perhaps the most high-profile American public figure to succumb to a so-called breakthrough infection of the novel coronavirus.
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