Colin Powell Reacts to Cheney’s Selection as Bush’s Vice Presidential Running Mate

cheap Canada Goose BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: CNN has just talked with retired General Colin Powell. He was interviewed this morning after the news of Dick Cheney accepting the offer to be Bush’s vice presidential running mate.

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GEN. COLIN POWELL (RET.), FMR. JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: canadian goose jacket No, I don’t think he is too conservative. I think Canada Goose online that if Dick Cheney is the choice of Governor Bush he has made canada goose store a superb choice. I have known Mr. Cheney canada goose coats on sale for many, many years. I worked very closely with for four canada goose outlet years with him, as you know, when I was chairman and he was secretary of defense.

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COURSON: From working with Mr. Cheney, do you think he has the kind of foreign policy depth that Mr. Bush may lack?

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POWELL: I will leave those decisions up to canada goose uk black friday Governor Bush, and I’m sure he will begin deciding in good time, with his vice presidential selectee, how they want to organize their administration.

buy canada goose jacket COURSON: General, uk canada goose outlet quickly, President Bush, obviously Cheney served with President Bush. There is some buzz that President Bush pushed Cheney, and George W. is just a surrogate for his father. Is that fair?

canada goose clearance POWELL: No, you know, there is buzz on everything. uk canada goose And I am not going to comment on buzz. The buzz was around me yesterday when someone invented imaginary conversations on the basis of imaginary conversations from imaginary sources, tied up most of my afternoon beating down a story that I had beaten down repeatedly for years. But it still makes the buzz and it makes news.

canada goose COURSON: Did the Bush camp approach you for advice on Cheney? and what did you tell them?

canadian goose jacket POWELL: No, they did not approach me for advice on Mr. Cheney. I was not part of that process. Mr. Cheney was the process. But if they had approached me and asked me about it, I buy canada goose jacket cheap would have given him a very, very strong recommendation. I think very highly of Mr. Cheney.

COURSON: You served closely with him. Can you recall any anecdote that is revealing about his character?

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COURSON: Are you broken canada goose factory sale hearted they didn’t pick you?

canada goose clearance sale POWELL: No, I was never the candidate. And as Governor Bush was quoted in the paper this morning as saying, he and I had that conversation a long, long time ago. He respected my decision, and the reasons for that decision, and he understood them, that’s the kind of person he was.

Canada Goose sale And I have not had any further contact with Governor Bush or any of Canada Goose Outlet his associates on canada goose the subject because I have closed it with Governor Bush to his satisfaction and understanding. So all these rumors that have been floating around have been nothing more than clever ways of covering deception perhaps, or just people looking for stories that didn’t exist.

canada goose coats on sale COURSON: Did you say you would be at Philadelphia, and are you planning part of the speech there?

POWELL: Yes, I’m speaking Monday night.

POWELL: Well, if I tell you about it, then you may not cover it.

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POWELL: The theme of that night is young people, opportunity for young people. And it’s going to be setting a vision for what the Republican Party can do to create Canada Goose Parka opportunity for all Americans, but especially for young people, which is the passion of my life. I am pleased that I have been invited to participate in the evening with a number of other distinguished speakers who will be on the stage that night as well.