Here is another choice, ARNOLD KANTER. He has all the right credentials and has done lots of “heavy-lifting” and “tough negotiating” in his former government roles — and I haven’t yet tripped over someone (like we seem to do everyday with John Bolton) who has accused him of professionally abusive behavior.
This interesting summary, noting the “enormous stakes for the President” in the Bolton Battle, just in from AP: President Bush, stunned when John R.
Our campaign for better nominees than John Bolton continues. . . Today TWN suggests that President Bush consider Robert Kimmitt, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, and former General Counsel at the National Security Council.
The June issue of Vanity Fair hits New York newsstands on Wednesday, May 4th — and goes national on May 10th.
Remember this line from the 2nd Bush-Gore presidential debates? President Bush made this admirable statement on October 11, 2000: I just don’t think it’s the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you. . .
The clock is ticking, and there is a great deal to do during this final week of agreed investigation time into John Bolton’s background.
Lincoln Chafee is in a bind. There are two leading Dems in the State running in the next Senate race and one right-wing potential candidate who keeps flirting with entering the race.
No one will accuse Richard Haass of being a softy on the United Nations. He is a Republican and has all the right credentials for this job.
Lamar Alexander has been a presidential candidate and had an absolutely distinguished record as a great thinker and policy hand. He speaks from his gut and his mind as a Southerner and American patriot. Senator Alexander has served as Governor of Tennessee, as Secretary of Education, and is now Senator of Tennessee. . .
Rita Hauser, a long-time international lawyer with great experience in the Middle East, is a member of the Board of Trustees of RAND Corporation, was appointed by President Bush to the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and co-chaired the Bush-Cheney re-election effort in New York.
