Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state, is being honored at a funeral service today at the Washington National Cathedral
Madeleine Albright, who served as secretary of state in the Bill Clinton administration and was Colin Powell's predecessor, honored her friend by sharing some of the traits and characteristics she came to know throughout their friendship.
She noted that despite their differences in ideas or background, they were able to become close friends. "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," she said. "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.
Albright said Powell would work to instill these traits in the soldiers in his command, his colleagues and those he met. The former secretary of state said Powell"relished the opportunity" to connect with other generations and lift them up. "A first rate listener, and in government the ultimate team player, Colin was nevertheless always true to himself. He could not be moved by any threat or attempting promise to depart from what he felt was right," she added."He had a code instilled by his immigrant parents, honed by army tradition and nurtured by more than half a century of marriage. He was also guided by conscience that unlike many never slept," she said.
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