A Complete Soldier ; Colin Powell
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Some see Powell's nomination as a political salvage job for Bush, since it comes close upon the Senate's rejection of another black nominee, William Lucas, as head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. Yet the honor Powell brings to his fellow black Americans comes from the virtual irrelevance of race to his appointment. Said Tom Griscom, a former Reagan White House colleague: "No one ever thinks of Colin as being black; they think of him as being good."
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