John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant and political commentator. He served as the 27th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. Bolton is widely considered a foreign policy hawk and is an advocate for regime change in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea.
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John Robert Bolton is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant and political commentator. He served as the 27th United States National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019. Bolton is widely considered a foreign policy hawk and is an advocate for regime change in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea. He was an advocate of the Iraq War as a Director of the Project for the New American Century, which favored going to war with Iraq. A Republican, his political views have been described as American nationalist, conservative, and neoconservative. He is a former senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Fox News Channel commentator. Bolton was a supporter of the Vietnam War, but avoided combat through a student deferment followed by enlistment in the Maryland Air National Guard. He attended Yale University, earning a B. A. and graduating summa cum laude in 1970. He then attended Yale Law School from 1971 to 1974, where he shared classes with his friend Clarence Thomas. He later returned to Washington, D.C., as an associate at the law firm of McManus, Covington & Reed. Bolton later served as a partner in the firm of Lerner, Reed, Lerner, Lerner & Reed, from 1999 to 1999. He returned to the firm again from 1983 to 1985 as a counsel. Bolton rejects the last term of President George W. Bush, and was a summer intern for Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1972. In 2007, Bolton wrote a best-selling book about his tenure in the Trump administration, The Room Where It Happened, published in June 2020.
He wrote a book, In Surrender Is Not an Option, in which he described the war as a struggle to gain to gain. Bolton described his perception that dying for your country was one thing, but dying in territory that anti-war forces would simply return to the enemy would simply seem ludicrous to him. He has continuously supported military action and regime changes in Syria,. Libya, and Iran. He has called for the termination of the Iran nuclear deal, from which the U.S. withdrew in May 2018. Bolton is also a former foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and served as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He also served in the State Department as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1989 to 1993 and Under Secretary of state for Arms Control and International Security Affairs from 2001 to 2005. Bolton has been a member of the National Security Council since 2001. He currently serves as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, and is a senior counselor at the National Council of American Muslims, the Republican Party of the United States, and the American Institute for Peace and Justice. He previously worked for the International Rescue Committee, a conservative think-tank based in Washington, DC, as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and at the Cato Institute, a Center for the Study of Terrorism and Policy.
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