No one should doubt Bolton's attention to detail—and his appetite for bureaucratic score-keeping.
This file photo shows President Donald Trump speaking to reporters as then-National Security Adviser John Bolton listens in the Oval Office of the White House on August 20, 2019 in Washington, D.C.The only thing more improbable than John Bolton's presence as National Security Adviser in Donald Trump's White House is the idea that, as the president asserted Sunday night, he never told his NSC adviser that he wanted to tie aid to Ukraine to investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden.
A Yale-trained lawyer, Bolton is a meticulous note-taker, recording the details and his impressions of virtually every meeting he attends. White House sources have said Bolton was alarmed by presidential lawyer Rudolph Giuliani's"shadow" foreign policy ventures regarding Ukraine and the Bidens.
The State Department—and the dovish regime in South Korea, then led by President Kim Dae Jung—didn't want to upset the status quo with the North. This infuriated Bolton. It was the ultimate, he would later write, in the disease that always afflicts the State Department:"clientitis." So he went to war and eventually, from his perch as Undersecretary of State for arms control, managed to kill the Agreed Framework.
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