colin powell

     

In 1989, at age 52, he became the youngest man ever to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Trivia about colin powell

  • (Hi, I'm Star Jones of "The View". One of my personal heroes is) this man (who) in 1989 was the first African-American to be named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • He was the first African-American Secretary of State
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993, he's now a member of Bush's cabinet
  • In 1993 he got an honorary degree from Harvard & retired from the U.S. military; today he's a secretary
  • This 4-star general was President Bush's top military adviser from 1989 to 1993
  • He ended a 35-year military career in 1993 by resigning as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he played a leading role in directing the coalition war effort
  • Later chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this African-American became National Security Advisor in 1987
  • 4-star general Colin McKoy
  • This South Bronx native now heading up the State Dept. earned a Purple Heart during his tour of Vietnam
  • (Richard Roth reads from the U.N. floor.) In February 2003 I reported on this Secretary of State's visit to the U.N. to present evidence of Iraq's failure to disarm
  • In 1991 this then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff added another medal to his collection
  • This retired general can give his "My American Journey" his own 4 stars
  • This military man won the NAACP's Spingarn Medal for 1991
  • 1991:A U.S. Army general & government official
  • He was the first African-American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • A biography of this former Cabinet secretary is subtitled "Soldier and Statesman"
  • He was the U.S. Secretary of State between 2 female Secretaries of State
  • This current secretary of state got his first taste of the military as a student in ROTC