作为特朗普总统的国家安全顾问,约翰·博尔顿453天中的许多时间都在事发的房间里度过,事实不言而喻。
其结果是一本白宫回忆录,是对特朗普政府最全面、最实质性的记述,也是迄今为数不多的由高层官员撰写的回忆录之一。约翰·博尔顿几乎每天都能接触到总统,他对自己在椭圆形办公室里和周围的日子进行了精确的描绘。博尔顿所看到的一切令他吃惊:对于一个总统来说,连任是唯一重要的事情,即使这意味着危及或削弱国家。他写道:“在我任期内,我很难确定特朗普在任期内做出的任何重大决定,而这些决定并非出于连任计算。”。事实上,他辩称,当特朗普的乌克兰式违法行为贯穿其外交政策和博尔顿文件的全部内容,以及他和政府其他人试图对此提出警告时,众议院将起诉狭隘地集中在乌克兰,从而犯下了弹劾失职行为。
他展示了一个沉迷于混乱的总统,他拥抱我们的敌人,抛弃我们的朋友,并对自己的政府深感怀疑。用博尔顿的话说,所有这些都帮助特朗普走上了被弹劾的怪路。“这届总统任期与我担任的前几任总统之间的差异是惊人的,”曾为里根、41岁布什和43岁布什工作过的博尔顿写道。他发现了一位总统,他认为外交政策就像是结束一个关于个人关系的房地产交易,是为了电视节目,并促进自己的利益。结果,美国失去了一个应对日益加深的威胁的机会,而在中国、俄罗斯、伊朗和朝鲜这样的案例中,美国最终陷入了更加脆弱的境地。
博尔顿的叙述从他长征西翼开始,特朗普和其他人向他争取国家安全工作。他一落地,就要应对叙利亚对杜马市的化学袭击,此后的危机从未停止。正如他在开场白中所写,“如果你不喜欢混乱、不确定性和风险,同时又不断地被信息、要做的决定、大量的工作所淹没,并被无法描述的国际和国内个性和自我冲突所激活,那就试试别的办法。”
动荡、冲突和自负都在那里,从委内瑞拉的动荡,到朝鲜金正恩反复无常的操纵性举动,到七国集团峰会上的摊牌,伊朗精心策划的好战,把塔利班带到戴维营的疯狂计划,以及最终让世界暴露在致命谎言面前的专制中国的安抚。但这位经验丰富的公务员也对华盛顿的内线游戏有着敏锐的洞察力,他的故事充满了关于他如何看待这场比赛的诙谐幽默。

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As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. "I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations," he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump's Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy--and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them. He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton's telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. "The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning," writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal--about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place. Bolton's account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria's chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, "If you don't like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk--all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work--and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else." The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there--from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played

As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations,” he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping its prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump's Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them. He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton's telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. “The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning,” writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal—about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place. Bolton's account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria's chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, “If you don't like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work—and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else.” The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there—from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.

John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43, Bolton brought to the administration thirty years of experience in international issues and a reputation for tough, blunt talk. In his memoir, he offers a substantive and factual account of his time in the room where it happened

封面
标题页
奉献精神
题词
第一章:长征到西翼一角办公室
第二章:大喊大叫!“让战争的狗溜走
第三章:美国自由
第四章:新加坡吊带
第五章:布鲁塞尔、伦敦和赫尔辛基三城峰会的故事
第六章挫败俄罗斯
第七章:特朗普走向叙利亚和阿富汗的大门,却找不到
第八章:混沌作为一种生活方式
第九章委内瑞拉诽谤罪
第十章:雷声出中国
第十一章:入住河内希尔顿酒店,然后退房,以及板门店娱乐时间
第十二章:特朗普迷失了方向,然后又失去了勇气
第十三章:从阿富汗反恐任务到戴维营的险情
第十四章:田园诗的结束
第十五章结语
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关于作者
笔记
索引
版权

2020-11-16