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  Dodd to Bush: Don't appoint Bolton
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Last EditedJ.R.  Jul 31, 2005 07:27pm
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News DateMonday, August 1, 2005 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Christopher Dodd urged President Bush on Sunday to reconsider appointing John Bolton as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations without Senate confirmation.

Bush may make a presidential recess appointment this week to install the controversial Bolton -- an under secretary at the State Department -- two senior administration officials have said.

Such a move would thwart Senate Democrats who have blocked Bolton's nomination in a dispute over documents and amid accusations that Bolton doesn't have the temperament for the nation's top U.N. post.
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