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powell: Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dies of Covid complications: statement – Times of India
WASHINGTON: Colin Powell, the first black U.S. secretary of state and senior military official, died of complications from Covid-19 on Monday at the age of 84, his family said in a statement.
“He was fully vaccinated. We would like to thank the medical staff of Walter Reed National Medical Center for their benevolent treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and great American, ”Powell’s family said in a post on his Facebook page.
As a General of the Four Star Army, he served as President of the Army Joint Chiefs of Staff under president George HW Bush during the 1991 Gulf War in which US-led forces expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Powell, a moderate Republican and pragmatist, went on to serve as Secretary of State under the President George W. Bush.
“He was fully vaccinated. We would like to thank the medical staff of Walter Reed National Medical Center for their benevolent treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and great American, ”Powell’s family said in a post on his Facebook page.
As a General of the Four Star Army, he served as President of the Army Joint Chiefs of Staff under president George HW Bush during the 1991 Gulf War in which US-led forces expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Powell, a moderate Republican and pragmatist, went on to serve as Secretary of State under the President George W. Bush.
