John Bolton is an award-winning filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada preoccupied with revelation, consolation and transcendence, sometimes even in that order. He produces, writes and directs dramas, documentaries, performing arts pieces and the occasional disaster film through his production company Opus 59 Films. John's recent films include the feature length "musical docudrama" _Aim for the Roses .
Son of production designer Michael S. Bolton.
In 2012, Bolton was a soloist with the NY Philharmonic.
Bolton has appeared on the David Letterman Show in several sketches including ones about A singing cowboy, an accountant guarding Oscar ballots, and a crazed Dave fan.
A nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Appointed in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations and served sixteen months.
Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
Fox News contributor.
The son of a fireman, he grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Yale Heights and won a scholarship to the McDonogh School in Ownings Mills, Maryland, graduating in 1966. He also ran the schools Students for Goldwater campaign in 1964. He then attended Yale University, where he shared classes with his friend Clarence Thomas , and was a contemporary of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton at Yale Law School. He was a member of the Yale Political Union and he earned a B.A. summa cum laude in 1970 and a J.D. in 1974.
He supported the Vietnam War and enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam.
Father of a daughter, Jennifer Sarah Bolton.
His wife, Gretchen Smith Bolton, has degrees from Wellesley College and New York University and lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband.
He is a Republican and a member of the Lutheran Church.
Was Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1989-1993) and Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security (2001-2005).
Was Assistant Attorney General (1985-1988).
Release of his book, "Surrender is not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Aboard".
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. .
