{"id":238,"date":"2004-12-11T08:01:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T13:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=238"},"modified":"2004-12-11T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-11T13:01:05","slug":"sam-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Sam the Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush may have finally gotten it right by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/bush\/articles\/2004\/12\/10\/bush_picks_bodman_for_energy_secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\">nominating Sam Bodman <\/a>as the new Secretary of Energy.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nSam Bodman is the rarest of quantities: an engineer, a successful executive, and a respected public servant, having served as deputy secretaries of both Commerce and Treasury in the Bush administration.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s reported that his nomination will be readily accepted by a Congress which must have received this latest nomination with relief, especially after the Bernard Kerik fiasco.<br \/>\nI am personally gratified as well in a vicarious way: Mr. Bodman was the unknowing instrument of my only success in the rarified atmosphere of senior management politics.<br \/>\nWhile I was at the MITRE Corporation, I suggested to my boss the CFO\/Secretary-Treasurer that he nominate Mr. Bodman to the Board. The Board approved &#8220;our&#8221; suggestion, fact which my boss reported back to me with good-natured chagrin: it was the first time any of his nominations had been accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush may have finally gotten it right by nominating Sam Bodman as the new Secretary of Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}