Ronald Reagan actually said...

None of the members of the Task Group may be an employee of the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy.

I have asked three highly capable Americans to be the head negotiators of each of three groups making up the U.S. delegation to the negotiat...

I am pleased that these distinguished Americans have agreed to serve in these positions of great importance to the United States.

No, and how that story has been concocted or what it's based on, I don't know.