08/05/1977
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"I will nominate Armando M. Rodriguez, of Whittier, Calif., to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
"I urge all the families and friends of our sick and disabled veterans to visit them and extend to them a grateful nation's promise that they will not be forgotten."
"It symbolizes the debt of gratitude we owe our veterans."
"They deserve our recognition for all they have done."