Colin Powell/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Colin Powell.

A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, he was the first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State. Declaring himself a moderate Republican on retirement from the military, he clashed with the neoconservatism of Dick Cheney and others in the George W. Bush Administration