Volume 42, Number 20 · December 21, 1995
The Last Gentleman
By Murray Kempton
General Colin Powell's decision not to run for president seems to have suffused our politics with a sense of loss whose presence is palpable and yet whose origins are rather a mystery. Our mourning cannot be for the loss of a candidacy with that realistic a chance for the Republican nomination, not so much because Powell is a man of color as because he would have joined the race after too many of the Republicans able to help his cause with the powers of office or of purse had already pledged them to another candidate.
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