{"id":1081,"date":"2007-04-04T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2017-06-06T06:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:06:35","slug":"bush-recess-appoints-major-swift-boat-vets-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/bush-recess-appoints-major-swift-boat-vets-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush recess appoints major Swift Boat Vets donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/samfox1.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/samfox.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"samfox.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>therawstory<br \/>\n Michael Roston<br \/>\n Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007<br \/>\n <br \/>\n President George W. Bush circumvented Senate opposition today and recess appointed a controversial nominee as Ambassador to Belgium. Sam Fox, who donated thousands of dollars to the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans For Truth before the 2004 Presidential election, received the nod from the White House in a quiet personnel announcement this afternoon that caught Senate Democrats off guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Bush_recess_appoints_major_Swift_Boat_0404.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>therawstory Michael Roston Published: Wednesday April 4, 2007 President George W. Bush circumvented Senate opposition today and recess appointed a controversial nominee as Ambassador to Belgium. Sam Fox, who donated thousands of dollars to the anti-John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans For Truth before the 2004 Presidential election, received the nod from the White House in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush recess appoints major Swift Boat Vets donor &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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