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What I Learned From Colin Powell

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The former general and ex-secretary of state made hard work fun.
About the author: Kori Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the director of foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute. My favorite recollection of Colin Powell was the look he got when he was amused. He’d tilt his head up and look at you under the base of his glasses, smiling, and take joy in the moment. He had such a great capacity for merriment. Powell died today, aged 84, of complications of COVID-19, his family said. People who only want to judge him for his policy acts and his achievements—his creation of the Powell Doctrine while he was a mere one-star general, becoming the youngest-ever Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the only soldier since George Marshall to become Secretary of State, and the first Black American in so many categories—will miss what made him such a great leader, such a great man: he made hard work fun. I went to work in his Joint Staff in 1990 when I was 26. Powell was both physically imposing (he once reminded me he could palm my head), and revered by the 1,500 military officers on that staff.

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