By Itoro Umontuen | on October 18, 2021
By Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb | CNN
Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.) has died from complications with Covid-19. Powell is shown present during an interrogation with Piers Morgan. (Photo: CNN)
Colin Powell opened up to writer Bob Woodward astir his wellness struggles successful what whitethorn person been his past interrogation earlier his death.
“Don’t accidental nary and don’t consciousness atrocious for me, for god’s sakes. I’m (almost) 85 years old,” Powell said aft telling Woodward astir battling aggregate myeloma for astir 2 years. “I haven’t mislaid a time of beingness warring these 2 diseases. I’m successful bully shape.”
Powell, the archetypal Black US caput of authorities and president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died Monday from complications from Covid-19 astatine the property of 84. Multiple myeloma, a crab of plasma cells, suppresses the body’s immune response. He besides had Parkinson’s.
Powell continued: “I’ve taken tons of exams and I get determination connected my own. I thrust up successful my Corvette, get retired of the Corvette and spell into the hospital. I besides spell to a session to get the humor tests taken. I don’t advertise it, I don’t marque an announcement astir it, but astir of my friends cognize it.”
CNN obtained audio of Woodward’s July 12 telephone interrogation with Powell for Woodward’s latest publication connected erstwhile President Donald Trump, “Peril.”
Powell’s trailblazing vocation spanned galore statesmanlike administrations. He was president of the Joint Chiefs during the George H.W. Bush medication and the US-led triumph successful the archetypal Gulf War. But arsenic caput of authorities successful the George W. Bush administration, helium played a cardinal relation pushing faulty quality earlier the United Nations to advocator for the 2003 Iraq War, thing he’d aboriginal telephone a “blot” connected his record.
In the July interview, Woodward discussed Powell’s views connected warfare and his moniker arsenic “a reluctant warrior.”
“Whenever that is asked of me, I say, true. I americium a reluctant warrior. I don’t similar wars. I don’t privation to beryllium a warrior,” Powell said. “But retrieve the different happening that is well-known astir me. And that is we spell to a war, and I volition bash everything I tin to bushed the crap retired of somebody, and win.”
“That’s known arsenic the Powell doctrine by the way,” helium added.
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