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Robert Dornan: That is enough to discuss this tragedy. Mr. Speaker, I am looking at the new Time magazine. Donald Rumsfeld, who served…

On the recordSeptember 5, 1996
That is enough to discuss this tragedy. Mr. Speaker, I am looking at the new Time magazine. Donald Rumsfeld, who served 10 years in this Congress, served well, was appointed as one of the youngest Secretaries of Defense, I think the youngest in the history of our Nation, by Jerry Ford, although he only got to serve a year in that distinguished post. I understand that on Meet the Press this weekend--I was, as I said, in Great Britain at an air base--my wife tells me that Rumsfeld was asked about the Richard Morris mess and that he said, "It doesn't matter." That is what it says on the cover of Time: The Morris Mess. He said, "It doesn't matter." He dismissed it. Well, I think it does matter. Here is the architect of Clinton's comeback based on family values and small issues. Clinton stood right below the Speaker, at that second lectern, in his State of the Union and said clearly, the era of big Government is over. So he had to deal with little things. And he mentioned about three dozen in his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. But we see him dealing with little things, mostly involving our future children, his 1 daughter, my 3 daughters, 2 sons, and 11 grandchildren, God willing, this December. I have got a higher stake in this than the Clintons.…
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing Donald Rumsfeld's comments and the implications for family values in politics.

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