Swift Boat challenge
The Swift Boat challenge from US oilman T. Boone Pickens was his reported offer of $1 million to anyone who can disprove a single charge made by the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, during the Presidential election campaign. Pickens, who had given the group $3 million in funding during the campaign, issued the challenge on November 6, 2007, in Washington, D.C., while serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary gala for The American Spectator magazine.