EP:4 – Powell – Micheal Goldwasser – How the shows are made

10 American Presidents Podcast

Roifield Brown

News, History, Society & Culture, News & Politics

4.5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Colin Luther Powell born April 5, 1937 is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005, the first African American to serve in that position. During his military career, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989), as Commander of the U.S. Army Forces Command (1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993), holding the latter position during the Persian Gulf War. He almost ran for the Republican ticket for president in 1996.Born in Harlem as the son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell was the first, and so far the only, Jamaican American to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the first of two consecutive black office-holders to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.Also this show features Roifield Brown talking to Michael Goldwasser explaining how the shows are made.

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0:00.0	This podcast is a Royfield Brown production.
0:06.1	Find others on iTunes.
0:08.3	All right.
0:09.2	Mr. Popp.
0:14.9	That's the only thing we have to fear is feel itself. Four score and seven years ago.
0:23.6	When in the course of human events,
0:25.6	And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you,
0:33.6	ask what you can do for your country.
0:36.6	There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America.
0:43.0	There's the United States of America.
1:00.3	Hello and welcome to a very special 10 American Presidents podcast.
1:05.5	This show is going to feature no American presidents.
1:06.9	Well, kind of.
1:13.6	There's going to be a little bit of Barack Obama, a tiny bit of Truman and a little bit of the two bushes. But fundamentally, this show features me talking to my great friend Michael Goldwasser and also features the life of General Colin Powell.
1:24.6	And hopefully by the end of that section of the show you'll realise
1:29.8	the reasons why I've put it into this podcast. Hi, this is General Colin Powell. I'm speaking from my home in McLean, Virginia, just outside of Washington.
2:04.2	I served 40 years in the government, 35 years as a soldier,
2:07.4	to include becoming chairman of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff,
2:10.5	and four years as Secretary of State.
2:28.3	Okay. My parents came to the United States from Jamaica, my father in 1920, my mother in 1924. Both proverbially came on a United Fruit Company boats, banana boats, as they might call.
2:33.3	They met in New York, married a few years after they arrived.
2:36.7	Two children came of that marriage.
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