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John Bolton: Secretary Of State Is 'More Than A 24-Hour-A-Day Job'

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the United Nations under George W Bush, addressed speculation that he could be on Donald Trump's short list to be the next Secretary of State during an interview with Dom Giordano on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, saying the job would require a tremendous amount of work.

"Each federal bureaucracy has its own culture. The Department of Defense culture, for example, is very different politically from the Department of State. But, for an incoming Republican Secretary of State, in particular, you've got to be on guard and very carefully time your activity. There's a lot of management work to be done in Washington. There's a lot of of international negotiation. You've got to do it all simultaneously. It's more than a 24-hour-a-day job."

Bolton said his previous service in the Department would guide his thinking should he be selected a cited the administration of the first President Bush as an example.

 

"I've been privileged to serve under six different Secretaries of State and so, they all have their qualities. I've learned a lot from all of them. If I had to pick one without diminishing any of the others, I'd pick Jim Baker and the reason I'd pick Baker is that he and George H W Bush kept the steady American policy to win the Cold War, to watch the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, saw us through the first Persian Gulf War, a time of enormous change, and, I think, did it very skillfully."

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