10/12/1987
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"I intend to appoint Donald Rumsfeld as my Personal Representative in the Middle East with the personal rank of Ambassador."
"I announce my intention to nominate Joseph A. Cannon to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency."
"Don Rumsfeld will be our point man in that effort."
"I haven't believed anything they've been saying since they got in charge, and you shouldn't either."