WASHINGTON – Colin Powell ... Reagan appointed the career soldier as national security adviser in 1987. From there George H.W. Bush, Reagan's successor, tapped Powell to be chairman of the ...

“General Colin L ... in 1979, appointed as Reagan’s final national security adviser in 1987 and was tapped by the elder Bush in 1989 to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell’s tenure ...

By Eric Schmitt [Follow the latest coverage of the death of Colin Powell ... when he was the first person appointed to the cabinet of President-elect George W. Bush. His assignment, as secretary ...

WASHINGTON (WJLA) — A memorial service for Colin L. Powell, the retired Army general ... under President George H.W. Bush. Eventually the president picked him as his secretary of state, another ...

Alma Powell, a civic leader and widow of retired Gen. Colin L ... from the military in 1993, was appointed secretary of state by President George W. Bush in 2001 and spent four often-beleaguered ...

A recent letter from Secretary of State Colin L ... Powell lead the U.S. delegation to the conference in South Africa next month, Powell was unmistakably secretary of state, sounding more like a ...