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Richard M. Nixon during
a press conference on
Vietnam and Cambodia
04/30/1970
National Archives Catalog
Brigadier General Colin L. Powell
1976
National Archives Catalog
Born to Jamaican
immigrant parents in
Harlem, New York, in
1937, Colin Powell
earned the Purple
Heart and Bronze
Star for action in
Vietnam. Seen in
this 1976 photograph
as a brigadier
general, Powell
later became a
general, Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W.
Bush, and Secretary of State under President George W.
Bush. He was the first African American to hold these
posts.
