Four years ago, after George W. Bush was elected President, he nominated Colin Powell as his Secretary of State. Powell was the first black American to occupy such a senior post in the US, and was frequently spoken about as a possible Presidential candidate in 2004.But after four years of controversy, Colin Powell handed his resignation to President Bush, who promptly nominated Dr Condoleezza Rice (who in his first term was National Security Adviser), as his new Secretary of State.Dr Rice is the…
