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Dana Rohrabacher: Let me just note that I worked in the White House for 7 years. I was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan during that time…

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
Let me just note that I worked in the White House for 7 years. I was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan during that time period. I am fully aware of the apparatus in the White House, and I was absolutely horrified to see what was going on there in terms of these FBI files. Let me also note that I was horrified when Billy Dale, who was a hard-working, just regular human being, a civil servant who spent his time in the Reagan administration but before that the Carter administration, so Democrat and Republican administrations, sacrificed his life, had done a terrific job, always having to improvise because every time it was a crisis getting people here and there, and then to have this person fired dramatically, right off the bat. This President showed what he thinks of the working people and the standard operating procedures of the White House by firing this civil servant, and trying to replace him with who? Some Hollywood producer who had a travel agency, in order for them to get this person into a position to basically make some money off getting people to and from Presidential functions.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Addressing concerns about the firing of a civil servant and the handling of FBI files during a White House discussion.

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