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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...