Colin Powell Thesis Statement

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Colin Powell is an African-American man, who was a solider for the Dessert Storm operation, and got ranked up to becoming a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. He then worked as the National Security advisor, and later become the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Which lead him to later become the first African-American to become the Secretary of State in the White House while under President George W. Bush’s first term in office. His position of being the first African-American Secretary of State was analyzed by journalist, political scientist, and historians when he held the position and even after he left it years later. The evaluation of Powell’s time as Secretary of State was journalists complained about a few things he …show more content…
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presented Colin Powell and another candidate with the Great American reward from the Great American Program. The director, John Gray, said he presented the award to them since they represent, ‘”Democracy, freedom, justice, opportunity and equality are among the enduring American values and ideals embodied by our first two honorees”’ (PR Newswire, para. 3). They gave Powell the award because of his military background and the fact that he was the first African-American Secretary of …show more content…
The journalist complained that Powell said that Israel had an estimate of two hundred nuclear missiles when in fact Israel only had about sixty to eighty nuclear missiles, because he was given an older version of the missile estimate by the CIA. The journalists also complained about how he used his personal laptop and his own email account to send emails that could have government secrets in them, which lead to the Republican Party demanding that those emails be recovered. There are also claims that he encouraged Hillary Clinton to use her personal email account and told her how to get around the White House’s security. Political scientist said that Powell helped State Department by telling them to use multiple media outlets to talk directly to the American people and the world, which lead to people in other countries having a different outlook on the U.S.A. Although political scientists say he only was the Secretary of State for President Bush’s first term, because Powell got into diplomatic fights with Bush and his cabinet on how to interact with other countries. Historians honored

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