Colin Powell last week and House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott over the weekend.
Bruce Riedel of Brookings says part of Rice's legacy will be the role she played as national security adviser when the White House undercut Powell, including on the Middle East.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said that both the White House and the presidential jet, Air Force One, had been targeted in the attacks.
When Secretary of State Colin Powell testified last week before a House committee, he said it was Palestinian attacks on Israel and a lack of Palestinian peace proposals that have kept progress from being made toward a peace agreement.
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But his stand is revealing deep divisions within his administration, with Colin Powell publicly distancing himself from the White House.
Mr Jones, a retired marine general who once served as NATO's supreme commander, will be the first former general to serve as national security adviser since Colin Powell did so in the Reagan White House in 1987-88.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented his spirited defense during testimony Wednesday before the House International Relations Committee.
In 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that the House of Representatives had acted unconstitutionally when it excluded a congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, who had been accused of financial impropriety.
The White House appears no longer to be pursuing one-time favorite, retired General Colin Powell.
"Colin Powell takes a back seat to no one when it comes to abstinence and abstinence education, " White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
But that was also the summer when the giants started to fall and the party cracked wide open: Jack Kemp and Colin Powell weren't in the game, Newt Gingrich was nearly toppled in a coup attempt in the House, and the other candidates seemed to have been running since the dawn of time without getting anywhere.
Rangel began his long run in the U.S. House in 1970 when he defeated another flamboyant and beloved longtime Harlem politician, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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She arrived for a meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building minutes before another secretary of state, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, arrived to brief the International Relations Committee on President Bush's recent trip to Russia.
Rich Armitage's mean-spirited partisanship is especially evident in the fact that neither he, nor Mr. Powell nor their lawyer, then-State Department Legal Advisor William Taft IV, saw fit to inform the White House that Armitage was the source of the Novak leak.
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