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Sixteen months: John Bolton serves as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.(Biography)
IN all honesty, it was amazing that John R. Bolton ever became U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in the first place. He was a committed conservative, a hawk, a skeptic of international organizations. (It might be better to call him a realist about them.) His personality was thought of as mercurial, even hot. Newspapers and magazines liked to refer to him as "Lightning Bolton." But President Bush wanted him at the U.N., and he wanted him so much that he even gave him a recess appointment, when the Senate refused to confirm him--that is, when Democrats blocked a vote on his nomination. Understandably, Bush wanted someone at the U.N. who actually supported his foreign policy. Such ...
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