Richard Nixon actually said...

I had great confidence in his intellectual capacity, in his honesty and his integrity, in his devotion to the law of this land, when I appointed him as Attorney General.

Context

Remarks at the Swearing In of New Cabinet Officials.

06/11/1972

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