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John Bolton

ジョン・ボルトン　/　じょん・ぼるとん

American politician

November 20, 1948 (age 77)　・　Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Maryland
politician
diplomat
lawyer

My Take

I rarely agree with John Bolton's prescriptions, but I find him impossible to ignore. Few figures in American foreign policy have been so consistently, unapologetically themselves across four decades; from Reagan's Justice Department to the United Nations to the Trump White House, he never softened his hawkish convictions to fit the room. What interests me is that rigidity as a character study: in a profession built on compromise, he treats compromise itself as the enemy. Whether you read him as principled or reckless, he forces every administration he touches to argue its assumptions out loud. That, I think, is his strange and lasting utility.

Overview

John Robert Bolton II (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator who served as the 25th United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United States national security advisor from 2018 to 2019. Bolton served as a United States assistant attorney general for President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989.

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1. Profile

Name (English): John Bolton
Name (Japanese): ジョン・ボルトン
Reading: じょん・ぼるとん
Born: November 20, 1948 (age 77)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rat
Origin: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: politician / diplomat / lawyer / civil servant

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Grace Hopper College

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Registered firearms

3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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