John Bolton
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American lawyer and diplomat. He was the 27th United States National Security Advisor from April 9, 2018 through September 10, 2019. He has served in several Republican administrations. Bolton served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006 as a recess appointee by President George W. Bush. John Bolton advocated the second war with Iraq.[1][2] He resigned in December 2006.
On March 22, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his appointment as National Security Advisor, to take office on April 9, 2018.[3]
On September 10, 2019, Bolton turned in his resignation to the Trump administration.[4]
A member of the Republican party, his political views have been described as American nationalist,[5][6] conservative,[7][8][9][10] and neoconservative.[11] Bolton rejects the last term.[12]
Bolton has openly thought about the idea of running for president in the 2024 United States presidential election to win the Republican nomination against former President Donald Trump.[13][14][15]
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Bolton in McDonogh School's 1966 yearbook
Bolton joins Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in negotiations with Rumsfeld's Russian counterpart
President George W. Bush announces Bolton's nomination as U.S. ambassador to the UN. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice looks on.
John Bolton, US Diplomat, speaks at Brown University 2-21-08.
May 2, 2018: (from left) Bolton, Mike Pompeo, President Trump, Vice President Pence
U.S. Defense Secretary James N. Mattis greets the National Security Advisor-designate Bolton at the Pentagon in March 2018
December 26, 2018: Bolton and President Trump on the phone with Iraq Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi during visit to U.S. troops
In 2019, John Bolton, then U.S. National Security Advisor meeting British Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid (left) at 11 Downing Street
Bolton speaks at Chatham House on foreign policy challenges facing the Obama Administration
Bolton, President Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12, 2018
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References
- ↑ "John Bolton and the "national security" impeachment". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
- ↑ Jennifer Senior (January 1, 2006). "Bolton in a China Shop". New York.
- ↑ realDonaldTrump (March 22, 2018). "I am pleased to announce that, effective 4/9/18, @AmbJohnBolton will be my new National Security Advisor. I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend. There will be an official contact handover on 4/9" (Tweet). Retrieved March 22, 2018.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ↑ realDonaldTrump (September 10, 2019). "I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore..." (Tweet).
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ↑ Ignatieff, Michael (2009). American Exceptionalism and Human Rights. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0691116488.
Beginning in the 1980s, a conservative legal counterattack gained ground, taking a strongly Americanist or nationalist view of international law. Academic lawyers like John Bolton ...
- ↑ "Background: John Bolton's Nomination to the U.N." NPR. June 3, 2005. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
Over the past 30 years, John Bolton has advertised himself as an unadulterated nationalist and opponent of multilateralism. He's not a healthy skeptic about the United Nations, but widely known as a committed, destructive opponent and ideological lone ranger.
- ↑ Mousavian, Seyed (2012). The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 18. ISBN 978-0870032684.
Conservative John Bolton ...
- ↑ Baker, Peter (March 13, 2018). "As White House's Revolving Door Whirls, Chaos Is the Only Constant". The New York Times. . https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/politics/white-house-turnover-tillerson.html. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ↑ "US Democrats hail return to power". BBC. March 10, 2006. Archived from the original on December 6, 2006. Retrieved November 10, 2006.
- ↑ David Ramm, "Bolton, John R.", Current Biography Yearbook, 2006.
- ↑ Jentleson, Bruce W.; Whytock, Christopher A. (March 30, 2006). "Who 'Won' Libya? The Force-Diplomacy Debate and Its Implications for Theory and Policy". International Security. 30 (3): 47–86. doi:10.1162/isec.2005.30.3.47. S2CID 57572461.
- ↑ "Transcript". Hardball with Chris Matthews. November 21, 2007. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21600398/ns/msnbc-hardball_with_chris_matthews/t/hardball-chris-matthews-nov/. Retrieved February 4, 2020. "MATTHEWS: The trouble with neoconservatives... BOLTON: I'm not a neoconservative.".
- ↑ Buncombe, Andrew. "John Bolton vows 2024 presidential run to stop Donald Trump securing White House". www.independent.co.uk. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ↑ Hartmann, Margaret. "John Bolton Announces 2024's Most Ridiculous Presidential Bid". nymag.com. Vox Media. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
- ↑ Strozewski, Zoe. "John Bolton's Chances of Beating Trump in 2024 for GOP Nomination". www.newsweek.com. Newsweek Publishing LLC. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
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