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So you have to focus on how you bring each other together. and that those who follow in his footsteps would reinforce that and that would be part of his legacy as well. so many young people look up to him as a leader. it is very hard to be what you can t see. and he was invisible, strong, passionate, public servant that also happen to be african american. and to see a black man in that role, i think holds well for the future of our country. just as having a black man as president with all of the qualities of barack obama, also is a way of saying that this is the direction of our country is going. in sliding backwards from time to time. but in this and colin powell will appeal to arbiter agents, and ultimately i hope that swings out. and david, colin powell, and barack obama had something in common as kids growing up and ....
And i think he made that point very clearly. i would love to hear their take on. it was such a seismic moment within the campaign, it must have been transformative. we will get to. it thank you rachel all right, thank you lawrence. well colin powell was 40 when you watch the united states of america what march off to work with the segregated army. when in world war ii made that segregated army that colin powell would eventually grow up to command? the most powerful military force in the history of the world. colin powell was ten years old when he saw a black man playing major league baseball for the first time. that happened with colin paul s hometown in new york city, when jackie robinson was allowed to join the brooklyn dodgers in 1947. colin powell went to new york city s public school for elementary school, he graduated from to the college of the arts where he joined the army rotc, ....
He did not want to be lobbied. he wanted to speak his truth without giving any editing or scraping by any of us, and i think it made it much more authentic and powerful that we. but i would say that i was as a wind up god. so david, it s a big moment in the campaign. you know that he is going to make the announcement, it s going to have been your about two weeks out. you need everything to go perfectly at this point in the campaign. this is someone who is known john mccain for 25 years. he said something that i don t think we will hear again for a very long time before he makes his endorsement, he says that both of them are distinguished americans, who are patriotic, or dedicated to the welfare of our country. he s saying that before he makes the public endorsement of one. what was it like for you when you heard those magic words from colin powell? and what did it then mean to your campaign calculations? ....
And began his army career immediately after college in 1958. he did this first tour of duty in vietnam, in 1962, in 1963 when most americans did not know that there was a place called vietnam. and that there was an american military presence in vietnam. he went back to vietnam in 1968 at the peak of the comeback, and at the peak of the death count in vietnam. when the american involvement in vietnam, in 1968, was being protested somewhere in this country virtually every day of that year. colin powell s return to vietnam came after the reverent dr. martin luther king, had publicly turned against the war saying, quote, we are taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 1000 miles away to guarantee liberties in southeast asia which they had ....
Weeks before he was sworn in as secretary of state. and i raised richard pearl and these other neocons, who had been in the reagan ministration, and you know, bush won. and we re expected to have some real influence. in the bush administration. and he was very dismissive of them and said, you know, colin powell was not only enormously charming, and also capable of putting anyone he was with at ease, but he had enormous self confidence. at that point, he just coughed at these neocons, and said i ll be able to handle them. nobody s going to be able to jam me in this administration. he was telling me privately at the time. and then what happened? he got jammed by the cia. he got jammed by vice president cheney. donald rubs felt, a black belt and bureaucratic infighting, every time powell would leave ....