Retired U.S. Officials, Arms Control Specialists to Send Letter in Support of Bolton Nomination

More than 60 retired arms control specialists and diplomats are expected today to send Congress a letter in support of former Undersecretary of State John Bolton, whose Senate hearing on his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is scheduled to begin Thursday, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, March 29).

Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and former CIA Director James Woolsey are among signatories to the letter planned for delivery to Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman.

Bolton’s thinking “reflects a clear-eyed necessity of the real limits” of pacts with other countries when they place one-sided conditions on the United States, according to the letter. Bolton “has distinguished himself throughout a long and multifaceted career,” the letter says.

Meanwhile, some Bolton critics are scheduled to hold a news conference today, AP reported (Associated Press/New York Times, April 4).

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