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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 30, 1993

PRESIDENT NAMES AMBASSADORS TO GERMANY, GREECE, AND ERITREA;

ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR OF A.I.D.

(Washington, DC) President Clinton announced today that he intends to nominate Richard Holbroke to be his Ambassador to Germany and Tom Niles as his Ambassador to Greece. In addition, the President announced that he has nominated Robert Houdek to be Ambassador to Eritrea, and that he intends to nominate Larry Byrne to be the Associate Administrator for Finance and Administration at the Agency for International Development.

"The people we are adding to our foreign policy team today are men of tremendous achievement and character," said the President. "I am particularly glad that Richard Holbroke will be serving our country as Ambassador to Germany. Throughout his years in government, and more recently as a leader in the private sector, he has demonstrated the talents that are needed for an important position such as this one."

Richard Holbrooke has been Managing Director of Lehman Brothers in New York since 1985, and was Chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Government Renewal sponsored by Carnegie and the Institute for International Economics. From 1977-81, he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He had previously served in government as a member of the Foreign Service from 1962-69, serving in Vietnam, at the White House, and at the Paris Peace Talks. He was also the Peace Corps Director in Morocco from 1970-72, and served as Senior Consultant to the President's Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy from 1974-75. Holbroke has also been Managing Editor of Foreign Policy magazine, Contributing Editor to Newsweek International and Coordinator of National Security Affairs for the Carter/Mondale '76 campaign. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and was a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School. He is 52 years old, and has two sons.

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Tom Niles is a Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, which he joined in 1962. He most recently served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. From 1989- 91, he served as Ambassador to the European Community, and he has also served in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, as well as at a variety of positions at the Department of State. Niles, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, holds a B.A. from Harvard University and M.A. from the University of Kentucky's Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He and his wife, Carroll Ehringhaus, have two children.

Robert Houdek, a 30 year Foreign Service veteran, has served for the past two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. He previously served at posts in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Belgium. From 1978-80, he was Director of the Office of Intra-African Affairs, and from 1976-78 he was Deputy Director of the Office of West African Affairs. Houdek holds a B.A. from Beloit College and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He and his wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Wood, have two children.

Larry Byrne is the National Practice Director in the Washington, DC office of Hay Management Consultants, a capacity in which he has conducted studies of a number of government agencies. He joined Hay in 1983, following 17 years of service in the Federal Government. His positions in government included Director of an OMB task force on total government management systems; Director of Administration and Management in the White House; Director of the Management Analysis Task Force for the Civil Service Reform Act; Director of Personnel Evaluation in the Department of Energy; and Director of Personnel Systems and Payroll in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Byrne holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Utah.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 30, 1993

PRESIDENT NAMES HUD, VETERANS, AND COMMERCE OFFICIALS

(Washington, DC) President Clinton announced his intention today to nominate the following officials:

William Gilmartin, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban

     Development for Congressional and Intergovernmental
     Relations

Eugene Brickhouse, Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs for

Human Resources and Administration

Ginger Lew, General Counsel, Department of Commerce

"These three outstanding individuals will make excellent additions to our Administration," said the President. "William Gilmartin, Eugene Brickhouse, and Ginger Lew have all proven themselves in their previous government service. I am grateful that they have agreed to be part of our efforts now."

William Gilmartin, who served from 1978-81 as a Senior Legislative Assistant in the office he is being named to head, is currently Legislative Director for Michigan Congressman Bob Traxler, who chairs the House Subcommittee on VA-HUD Appropriations. From 1981-86, he was Legislative Representative for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. He first worked for Congressman Traxler as a Special Projects Assistant in the mid 1970's, after having been a Congressional and Legislative Liaison during his service in the U.S. Army. Gilmartin, 43, holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross.

Eugene A. Brickhouse, a 30 year Army veteran, is a Professional Staff Member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. He previously worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs as a Defense Department liaison after retiring from the Army in 1990. During his military career, he had continually increasing responsibilities in a variety of human resource and administrative areas, retiring with the rank of Colonel as Chief of Staff of the Army Defense Medical Systems Support Center. Brickhouse holds a bachelors degree from Virginia State University and a masters in management of human resources from the University of Texas. He is married and has one son.

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Ginger Lew, a corporate attorney with experience in international trade and regulatory affairs, is currently Corporate Counsel for ENERGEO, Inc., a San Francisco company. She previously worked for the Washington, DC firms of Ernst & Young, where she was Senior Manager, and Stovall, Spradlin, Armstrong & Israel. From 1980-82, she
was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs. Lew had previously served in the San Francisco Regional Counsel's office of the Department of Energy, and as a Deputy City Attorney in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release June 30, 1993

PRESIDENT NAMES DEFENSE OFFICIALS

(Washington, DC) The President today announced his intention to nominate John Hamre to be Comptroller of the Department of Defense. He also announced that he is appointing Mitch Wallerstein to serve at the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterproliferation Policy.

"We are continuing the process of putting together a strong and effective staff at the Department of Defense," said the President. "John Hamre and Mitch Wallerstein both bring outstanding academic credentials along with years of hands-on experience to their new positions."

Hamre has been a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Service Committee since 1984, responsible for reviewing r&d and procurement programs under the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense. Before joining the Committee's staff, he worked in the Congressional Budget Offices's National Security and International Affairs Division as Senior Analyst from 1978-81 and Deputy Assistant Director from 1981-84. He holds a B.A. from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD and a Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He also studied at Harvard Divinity School.

Mitch Wallerstein has spent the last decade at the National Academy of Sciences, most recently as Deputy Executive Officer of the National Research Council. He was previously Associate Executive Director of the Office of International Affairs and Special Assistant for Policy and Planning. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, the George Washington University, and a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, an M.P.A. from Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Affairs, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from M.I.T. Wallerstein is married with two children, and is 44 years old.

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