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|birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, United States |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |spouse = |children = Jennifer Sarah |alma_mater = Yale University (B.A, J.D) |religion = Evangelical Lutheranism |allegiance = |branch = United States Army |unit = Maryland Army National Guard }} John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served in several Republican administrations. Bolton served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006 as a recess appointee by President George W. Bush. He resigned in December 2006, when the recess appointment would have otherwise ended, because he was unlikely to win Senate confirmation. Bolton is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John R. Bolton )〕 senior advisor for Freedom Capital Investment Management, a Fox News Channel commentator, and of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm Kirkland & Ellis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kirkland & Ellis LLP > Bolton, John R. )〕 He was a foreign policy adviser to 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Bolton is also involved with a number of politically conservative think tanks and policy institutes, including the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Institute of East-West Dynamics, the National Rifle Association, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the Council for National Policy (CNP) and the Gatestone Institute,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Former UN Ambassador John R. Bolton Joins Gatestone Institute as Chairman )〕 where he serves as the organization Chairman. ==Early life and education== Bolton was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Virginia Clara "Ginny" (née Godfrey), a housewife, and Edward Jackson "Jack" Bolton, a fireman. He grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Yale Heights and won a scholarship to the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Maryland, graduating in 1966. He also ran the school's Students For Goldwater campaign in 1964. He then attended Yale College and Yale Law School, where he shared classes with his friend Clarence Thomas, and was a contemporary of Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham at Yale Law School.〔John Bolton, ''Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad'', Threshold, 2007.〕 He was a member of the Yale Political Union, and he earned a B.A. graduating ''summa cum laude'' in 1970 and a J.D. in 1974. Bolton supported the Vietnam War, enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard and consequently did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."〔Ross Goldberg and Sam Kahn, ("Bolton's conservative ideology has roots in Yale experience" ), ''Yale Daily News'', April 28, 2005.〕 In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Diane Rehm Show – One of her guests is always you. )〕〔In his memoir, 'Surrender Is Not an Option', Bolton now writes that he didn't want to 'waste time on a futile struggle'. Cited Brian Urquhart, 'One Angry Man', ''New York Review of Books', March 6, 2008, pp. 12–15.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John R. Bolton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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