United States President Barack Obama, a member of the Democratic Party, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Republican Party and by some political figures holding conservative views in th
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Colin Powell
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Colin Luther Powell was an American U.S. Army general, diplomat, and statesman who served as the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, being the first Black American to hold the off
Republican and conservative support for Barack Obama in 2008
…commentator Robert Novak blamed the policies of President George W. Bush for Republican defections to the Obama camp and suggested that Republicans Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel might soon declare their support for Obama. In July 2008, African-American libertarian-conservative columnist Thomas Sowell criticized…
Official portrait, 2001
Richard Nixon and Powell, 1973
President Ronald Reagan and National Security Advisor Powell, April 18, 1988
Powell's official portrait as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, c. 1989