01/22/1980
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"I will nominate Armando M. Rodriguez, of Whittier, Calif., to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission."
"It symbolizes the debt of gratitude we owe our veterans."
"They deserve our recognition for all they have done."
"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."