The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

by John Bolton

Now, instinct, personal relations, and showmanship are elements of any President’s repertoire. But they are not all of it, by a long

stretch. Analysis, planning, intellectual discipline and rigor, evaluation of results, course corrections, and the like are the blocking and tackling of presidential decision-making, the unglamorous side of the job.

Appearance takes you on...

followed Adam Smith on economics,

Edmund Burke on society,

The Federalist Papers on ...

and a merger of Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles on ...

I was grateful for the considerable support I had among pro-Israel Americans (Jews and evangelicals alike), Second Amendment supporters, Cuban-Americans, Venezuelan-Americans, Taiwanese-Americans, and conservatives generally.

Trump

firing FBI Director James Comey later in May (at Kushner’s suggestion, according to Bannon),

If true,

said Trump, the US had been run by idiots, but no more.

sanctions should work; they’re about using America’s massive

economic power to advance our national interests.

If Venezuela’s top court, packed by Maduro cronies and hacks, and led by one of his nominally strongest supporters, delegitimized Maduro’s sham legislature, it would dramatically undercut Maduro across the board in Venezuela.

Similar to Trump’s intents in his nomination of judges in the US courts! Why this is not considered to be corruption!

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed,

In Israel, I reviewed where things stood on Iran. Netanyahu and his team focused

Since when a foreign entity determine our policy decisions from their informational perspective. The US is missing the credible and qualified resources to have our own decision making information. Is John Bolton a double agent bu chance!

certainly evidence contradicting Tehran’s repeated assertions it had never had a nuclear-weapons program.

Israel asserted the same and today plays the baffled partner when asked about their atomic bomb! We allowed the proliferation on one had and act proponent of anti proliferation on the other hand. Our US double standard sound is defining! What gives...lost credibility, double standard based on unilateral convenience, evasive language due unjustifiable action of material importance, reflects the bully of the neighborhood...

I wasn’t entirely passive on that score, encouraging Netanyahu

Mr. Bolton’s reliance on a foreign leader to convince our US leadership to adopt certain policy stance, shows how the USA’s independence have suffered due to the fifth column, which is allowed to occupy highest decision making positions, and creeping foreign decision making influences right left and center of our “sovereign” Government.

to call Trump on July 10 to stiffen his spine.

Ultimate insult.

nationalism

patriotism

Kushner explained he had stopped this and an earlier effort by Netanyahu because he didn’t think it was appropriate for a foreign leader to talk to Trump about whom he should speak to.

Sound decision