The White House has made a genuinely inspired choice of Robert Kimmitt, whom I wrote about just this morning as a potential U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and nominated him instead to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. This just in from Chris Nelson’s The Nelson Report: On the subject of money. . .

Here is a roster of key quotations in Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff interviews held on the 7th and 8th of April, 2005 on the subject of the tumultuous interaction between Undersecretary of State John Bolton and State Department INR analyst Christian Westermann. The interviews were with: 1.

Doug Jehl has done a truly impressive job working the story on John Bolton and reports today on a set of leaked Senate Foreign Relations Committee interview transcripts with three former SENIOR government officials. This good article rubs some serious salt into some already very deep wounds in the White House’s Bolton nomination.

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.