Gingrich would tap John Bolton for secretary of State
- By Michael Hirsh
- December 7, 2011
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Bolton, a Yale-educated lawyer, is often misidentified as a neoconservative, but he is more of a radical libertarian who renounces international law and was so uncompromising in refusing to work with the U.N. (though he was ambassador to it, in fox-guarding-the-henhouse fashion), as well as with other international institutions, that even some of his colleagues in the Bush administration were not unhappy to see him leave. The British, America's closest allies, also tried to take Bolton out of action in negotiations over Libya and Iran, per this 2005 piece.
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