John R. Bolton

John Robert Bolton, (born November 20, 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American political figure and diplomat. He is the current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

External links

• U.S. Mission to the United Nations Biography
• John R. Bolton - SourceWatch
• State Department biography
• Resume from the American Enterprise Institute
• Announcement of Nomination of John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the UN
• The Creation, Fall, Rise, and Fall of the United Nations John Bolton's chapter from the Cato Institute book, Delusions of Grandeur: The United Nations and Global Intervention

News articles

• Goldberg, Ross and Sam Kahn. "Bolton's conservative ideology has roots in Yale experience", Yale Daily News, April 28, 2005.
• Knowlton, Brian. "Bush picks a hawkish skeptic as UN envoy", International Herald Tribune, March 8, 2005.
• Slavin, Barbara and Bill Nichols. "Bolton a 'guided missile'", USA Today, December 1, 2003.
• Charles J. Hanley. "Bolton Said to Orchestrate Unlawful Firing", Associated Press, June 4, 2005.
• Barbara Slavin. "Woman accuses Bolton of harassment", USA Today, April 20, 2005.

Commentary (favorable)

• Gaffney, Frank J. Jr. "A Bolt of Good Sense" National Review, March 8, 2005.
• Kristol, William. "Bolton's the One" Weekly Standard, March 18 2005.
• Novak, Robert. "Bush's pick misunderstood by many" Chicago Sun-Times, March 14, 2005.
• Prince, Cathryn J. "Tough-talking Bolton: just what the UN needs" Christian Science Monitor, March 10, 2005.
• "Right man for UN job" New York Daily News, March 8, 2005.

Commentary (critical)

• Crooks and Liars Video of Bolton in diatribe against the UN.
• Citizens for Global Solutions. "Stop Bolton Campaign Site", March 12, 2005.
• Corn, David. "Bush Gives the UN the Finger" The Nation, March 7, 2005.
• Gonzales, Gabriel Espinosa. "The Dubious Career of John Bolton: The Latest Mad Man at Foggy Bottom" Counterpunch, December 16, 2004.
• Harding, James. "Choice of Bolton shows US mood" Financial Times, March 7, 2005.
• Ritter, Scott. "Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran" Al Jazeera, March 30, 2005.
• Williams, Ian. "Bush's Perverse UN Pick" The Nation, March 8, 2005.
• Whitney, Mike. "John Bolton and the Road to Tehran", March 15, 2005

Commentary (neutral)

• David Bosco, "The World According to Bolton", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2005.