Robin Cook makes a point as then British Foreign Secretary looks on during an annual press conference in 2001. Cook began a visit to the new US administration, calling for thorough debate on US plans for a missile shield that attracted fierce opposition from Russia and reservations from European leaders Powell receives a pat on the cheek from national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, right, in the Oval Office during the meeting between President Bush and the then Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon at the White House in Washington in 2002.
Powell holds a vial that he said was the size that could be used to hold anthrax in 2003 at the UN Security Council in New York City as he addresses the United Nations Security Council in 2003. Powell urged the UN Security Council to say enough to what he said was Iraq s 12 years of defiance of international attempts to destroy its chemical and biological weapons President George W Bush and Powell stop to talk with the press outside a Crawford, Texas restaurant where the two men had lunch in 2003. Bush spent a month on his Washington ranch which was billed by the White House as a working vacation Powell takes a photo with his camera phone of then US President George W Bush and first lady Laura Bush as they leave Bush president s installation for a second term on steps of the US Capitol building in Houston, in 2005.