Neocon Jeffrey Gedmin to Succeed Anne Patterson as Deputy US Ambassador to UN

This seemed significant as this seems to be the first time that anyone can remember where a "political" person has been chosen for the deputy slot at the U.N. The popular incumbent, Anne Patterson, and a long line of other deputy chiefs at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. have been career foreign service officers.

Gedmin was a colleague of John Bolton's at the American Enterprise Institute where he directed the New Atlantic Initiative.