Event Chair, David Nelms, Chairman and CEO, Discover Financial Services LLC invites you to:
An Evening With Colin Powell
Interviewed by Juan Williams
A PBS-TV Special to benefit The HistoryMakers
Saturday, April 29, 2006
The Jack Morton Auditorium
George Washington University
805 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
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For more information or to purchase tickets, call 312-674-1900 or e-mail your ticket request to info@thehistorymakers.com
Ticket price: $1000.00
Colin Powell
General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret) became the 65th Secretary of State on January 20, 2001. While Secretary, Powell led the State Department in major efforts to solve regional and civil conflicts in the Middle East, between Israel and its Arab neighbors, in Sudan, Congo and Liberia, in the Balkans, Cyprus, Haiti, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Before becoming Secretary of State, Colin Powell served as a key aide to the Secretary of Defense and as National Security Advisor to President Reagan. He also served 35 years in the United States Army, rising to the rank of Four-Star General and serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989—1993). During this time he oversaw 28 crises to include the Panama intervention of 1989 and Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. General Powell is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards and decorations including the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Army Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Soldier’s Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart. General Powell’s civilian awards include two Presidential Medals of Freedom, the President’s Citizens Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal and the Secretary of Energy Distinguished Service Medal. His many international awards include a French Legion of Honor and an honorary knighthood bestowed by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. Colin Powell and his wife, Alma Johnson Powell have three children, Michael, Linda and Annemarie, and three grandchildren.
Juan Williams
Juan Williams, one of America’s leading political commentators and writers, is Senior Correspondent for National Public Radio and Political Analyst for the Fox News Channel. Williams is the author of the critically acclaimed biography: Thurgood Marshall—American Revolutionary, as well the nonfiction bestseller, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, companion volume to the highly acclaimed television series. Williams is also author of This Far by Faith—Stories from the African American Religious Experience, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder—Voices of the Civil Rights Experience, and most recently, I’ll Find a Way or Make One, a tribute to historically black colleges and universities. Williams spent 18 months as host of NPR’s afternoon talk show, Talk of the Nation. He has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns, as well as an Emmy Award for TV documentary writing.
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