Leslie Bricusse with the Oscar for Best Original Song Score, for 'Victor/Victoria.' / ABC Photo Archives, Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images had become more inclusive in the time since he was a young Army recruit stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia, and that the spirit of cooperation with which the Gulf War was fought and won needed to be brought back to America: 'That's very difficult, but I think it's a matter of being a lot more tolerant of each other, and recognizing that whatever our racial differences or ethnic differences might be, or even economic differences, we're all Americans, and we all have to live in this home that we call America.' Barack Obama (calling him 'a transformational figure' who also represented a generational change), and became a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, whom he called 'a national disgrace.' ('I have no political fire burning in my belly,' he told '60 Minutes' correspondent Ed Bradley in 1992.) Powell publicly endorsed Democrats in the past four presidential elections, including Sen. Though he worked in Republican administrations, Powell was courted by both Republicans and Democrats to run for president, a position he declined. 'I think we had a lot of successes,' he said. Though the Iraqi leader was deposed, the weapons never materialized.Дespite the power vacuum created by the invasion, and years of insurgent fighting that killed countless Iraqi civilians, Powell maintained in a 2012 Associated Press interview that, on balance, the U.S. The following month, President Bush ordered the invasion. Powell's reputation, however, was marred by his 2003 address to the United Nations Security Council in which he cited faulty intelligence information to claim that Iragi President Saddam Hussein secretly possessed, or was developing, weapons of mass destruction, and posed a major regional and global threat. (It was in Pakistan where bin Laden would be killed nearly 10 years later.)

in going after the Afghanistan-based terror group. He was the first American official to publicly blame Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network, and he flew to Pakistan to demand that then-President Pervez Musharraf cooperate with the U.S. His tenure at the State Department was largely defined by the aftermath of the Sept. Bush as Secretary of State, the nation's first Black head diplomat. He later joined the administration of President George W. invasion of Kuwait led by President George H.W.

He would serve as a military assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, commander of the Army's 5th Corps in Germany, and national security assistant to President Ronald Reagan, before becoming the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overseeing the 1991 U.S.

Kennedy, receiving a Medal of Valor for going back into a burning helicopter to rescue others. He was one of more than 16,000 military advisers sent to South Vietnam by President John F. Powell spent 35 years in the Army, rising to the rank of four-star general. When he put on his first uniform, he wrote (in his 1995 autobiography 'My American Journey'), 'I liked what I saw.' Colin Powell (April 5, 1937-October 18, 2021) often shared his personal story as that of the only child of Jamaican immigrants, whose not-very-promising start in the South Bronx took a turn when he discovered the ROTC at City College. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. Mark Reinstein, Corbis via Getty ImagesДЄ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.Д«y senior producer David Morgan. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Colin Powell delivers a briefing about Operation Desert Shield, January 24, 1991.

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