{"id":939,"date":"2021-10-18T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:03:16","slug":"colin-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdef9a7ed200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colin powell\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdef9a7ed200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2026bdef9a7ed200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Colin powell\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think Powell could have been the first African-American President &#8211; but his wife did not want him to run. At the time of his death he also suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/multiple-myeloma\/about\/what-is-multiple-myeloma.html\">multiple myeloma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/colin-powell-dead-at-84-from-covid-19-complications\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=25377416\"> Colin Powell Dead at 84 from COVID-19 Complications <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/tag\/colin-powell\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Powell<\/a>, the first black U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died Monday at the age of 84 from complications of COVID-19, according to a post from his official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Powell was fully vaccinated, his family said. However, Powell had previously been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that weakens the body\u2019s ability to fight infections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/18\/colin-powell-former-secretary-of-state-who-made-case-for-iraq-invasion-dies-of-covid-complications-at-84.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment,\u201d Powell\u2019s family wrote in a statement on Facebook. \u201cWe have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Powell, who was the son of Jamaican immigrants, served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was influential in helping the administration with many policy decisions during his tenure, including during the years following the September 11 terrorist attacks. The State Department said Powell was \u201cone of the foremost supporters\u201d of taking \u201cswift military action\u201d against al-Qaeda, Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Powell could have been the first African-American President &#8211; but his wife did not want him to run. At the time of his death he also suffered from multiple myeloma. Colin Powell Dead at 84 from COVID-19 Complications Colin Powell, the first black U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6104,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/6104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}