Posted on 04/27/2005 1:57:59 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
I don't know John Bolton. I have never met him. However the attacks on him as President Bush's nominee as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations persuade me he is the best appointment to that job since President Lyndon Johnson persuaded Arthur J. Goldberg to resign from the Supreme Court and move to Turtle Bay. Those who attack Mr. Bolton as being too tough or nasty to subordinates are really trying to exploit President Bush's lame-duck status. They have no idea of the "right stuff" essential to be America's representative to the U.N. I pride myself on being an expert on the relationship between the U.S. and the United Nations. I have written a book on the subject called "The 'Other' State Department." (That was President Kennedy's nickname for the USUN mission.)
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