Bush Responds to Death of Colin Powell

Former President George W. Bush has issued a effect pursuing the decease of Colin Powell, who served arsenic his archetypal Secretary of State.

“Laura and I are profoundly saddened by the decease of Colin Powell. He was a large nationalist servant, starting with his clip arsenic a worker during Vietnam,” Bush said successful a statement, adding that “many Presidents relied connected General Powell’s counsel and experience.”

“He was National Security Adviser nether President Reagan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nether my begetter and President Clinton, and Secretary of State during my Administration. He was specified a favourite of Presidents that helium earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom – twice. He was highly respected astatine location and abroad,” Bush said.

Bush offered his condolences to Powell’s wife, Alma, and their children “as they retrieve the beingness of a large man.”

Powell died astatine the property of 84 from Covid-19 complications. He’d been afloat vaccinated but had a breakthrough case.