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Having risen to the highest ranks with the support of Presidents Reagan and Bush, Powell would serve his last nine months as chairman under a very different Commander in Chief. The South was tough because of the cultural issues; the only southern state to give me a substantially larger victory margin in 1996 was Louisiana, which went from 4. After a little more than one hundred days in office, we had made great strides in bolstering Yeltsin and Russian democracy. Oval Office and traveling; a kitchen staff who prepared food for us even on weekends; ushers to take me

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