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- ↑ "Dawson Move to DOT Could Leave FCC With Just Three Seats Filled With AM-Reagan-Transportation". Apnews.com. October 8, 1987. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
- ↑ Flannery, Gerald V. (1995). Commissioners of the FCC, 1927-1994. ISBN 9780819196699 . Retrieved April 30, 2019.