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San Francisco Chronicle
Bolton unlikely to hold U.N. ambassador post
Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times
Friday, November 10, 2006
...Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., who holds the swing vote that would determine whether the evenly split Foreign Relations Committee reconsiders Bolton, said he would not support the nomination, which the White House resubmitted Thursday.
"To confirm Mr. Bolton to the position of U.N. ambassador would fly in the face of the clear consensus of the country that a new direction is called for," Chafee said in Rhode Island. "I have long believed that the go-it-alone philosophy that has driven this administration's approach to international relations has damaged our leadership position in the world..."
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