Dec. 16 -- In his first Cabinet appointment, President-elect George W. Bush named retired Gen. Colin Powell as secretary of state today as he begins laying the groundwork for the administration.

But, as Lamar Alexander, the Republican senator from Tennessee who was George H.W. Bush’s education secretary ... and carefully monitored by the state. That vision, which shaped an entire ...

Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state during the presidency of George W. Bush and led the first Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has died at age 84 of complications from COVID-19 ...

Former President George W. Bush wrote in the name of his former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his 2020 presidential ballot rather than voting for his own party’s nominee Donald Trump ...

First lady Melania Trump is holding the event in the East Room, where she will unveil a new U.S. postal stamp honoring former ...

former President George W. Bush and Neil Bush, former first lady Laura Bush and several grandchildren, as well as Mr. Bush's close friend and former secretary of state, James Baker III ...

When foreign policy scholars list the best secretaries of State of the last half-century ... Baker III, the deft tactician who helped George H.W. Bush complete the process of ending the Cold ...

He first served in the Eisenhower administration as part of the council of economic advisers and was later appointed secretary of ... he advised George W. Bush during his 2000 presidential ...