challenge. help me understand this, xi has to know that with his move on hong kong and his continued militarization, his bluster at home and his threats to taiwan, he has to know that it s going to move us beyond this don t ask, don t tell policy we had on taiwan now for decades. so if we the chinese do not want to be embarrassed by us even saying the word taiwan which governments have not said for some time but by pretending that taiwan does not exist, why do they put our leaders in a position where they have no political choice but to do that because of china s continued provocations. i don t understand that. i think it s a measure of the
decades, more than 35 years through social circles and through howard university, the board of howard university. it is really an intimate and small and tight-knit professional black community here in washington, d.c. you would see general powell, his wife, alma, at many of the functionings and activities, whether it was the boulay or the lakes or jack and jill or any one of those black service organizations that would bring all of us together on many, many occasions. wolf, the first time that i met secretary powell, it speaks to his charm. it was 28 years ago. he was the commencement speaker at harvard university. i was just a young reporter at the time. he was very controversial about the don t ask, don t tell policy in the military that was prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military. there was of course that negotiation that took place, the don t ask, don t tell policy through clinton.
and i remember seeing him. there were protests that were swarming around the campus. i convinced my photographer to jump over a set of bushes to get to him. when we cleared the bushes, right in front of him, startled him, i couldn t speak. he looked at me. i looked at him. and he just said, well, hello. it really just floored me because i couldn t speak at all. i had all my questions and i froze at that moment looking at this kind of brilliant smile and very imposing figure. but he just smiled at me. eventually i got my thoughts together, was able to challenge him a little bit on that policy, which he had since repealed, the don t ask, don t tell policy. but he did have that electric charm and smile, if you will. wolf, i want to tell you, i d be remiss not to comment at least about the program taking place right now. this is the organ and brass prelude. you hear the u.s. army brass quintet. if you look at what is on the menu for those to listen to,
operation desert storm. he was the hero of the western world. on policy the general and i didn t always reach the same conclusions, and in fact he would later recount that one of my comments almost gave him an aneurysm. although we were the same age he and i were shaped by different experiences and had different ideas and represented different departments, but over the past quarter century we also became very close friends, an experience i know that i have in common with many of you. the reason is that beneath that glossy exterior of warrior statesman was one of the gentlest and most decent people any of us will ever meet. as i grew to know him, i came to view colin powell as a figure who almost transcended time for his virtues were homeric, honesty, dignity and loyalty and an unshakeable commitment to his
around $50,000 a month for his work. do we know that to be factual? if it is, can you tell us what he does for that company? yeah. initially one of his partners actually was put on the board, a guy named devin archer. devin archer then brought hunter in, and, you know, hunter was working as an of counsel for a law firm. the idea was that devin wanted toss if arch are could work with this new international board of directors to put together a governance plan that would help the company appeal to western investors. so that s how hunter social of initially gets involved. he doesn t tell his fare anything about it per the don t ask/don t tell policy when he first got into the business world. the $50,000 a month i ve been