Full-Name: Linda A. Kopecky
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:26:21 CST
From:         "Linda A. Kopecky" <kopecky@eagle.sangamon.edu>
Subject:      CLINTON TEXT: APPOINTMENTS MADE 12/10/92 BY PRESIDENT-ELECT BILL
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Background on Clinton Appointees from CLINTON@MARIST.bitnet.

Linda A. Kopecky
Sangamon State University
Springfield, IL 62794-9243
kopecky@eagle.sangamon.edu

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>  Posted by: The Office of the President-Elect
>  December 10, 1992
>
>  SUBJECT: Appointees
>
>  The following appointments were made today by President-Elect Bill
>  Clinton.  Following are  descriptions of the agencies, statements
>  from the designees and bio's of the designees.
>
>  DEPARTMENT TITLE:                   Department of the Treasury
>
>  SECRETARY DESIGNEE:                 Senator Lloyd Bentsen
>
>  DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE:          Roger C. Altman
>
>        The Department of the Treasury is responsible for overseeing
>  fiscal and financial policies of the United States government.  The
>  Treasury Department's duties include:
>
>        Recommending international and domestic policy to the
>  president; reporting government fiscal operations to the Congress;
>  accounting for all United States government receipts, expenditures
>  and appropriations; and the protection of the President, the Vice
>  President and their families.  The following agencies fall under the
>  Treasury Department's jurisdiction:
>
>       Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
>       Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
>       United States Customs Service
>       Bureau of Engraving and Printing
>       Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
>       Bureau of Government Financial Operations
>       Internal Revenue Service
>       Bureau of the Mint
>       Bureau of the Public Debt
>       United States Savings Bonds Division
>       United States Secret Service
>
>        Treasury ranks second among United States government Executive
>  Departments.  Founded in 1789, it was one of the original departments
>  established.
>
>  (Source:    The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary)
>
>                                       -30-
>
>                    STATEMENT OF SENATOR LLOYD BENTSEN
>                   SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY- DESIGNEE
>
>        Governor Clinton has asked me to take on a new role in public
>  service as Secretary of the Treasury, and I have accepted.
>
>        It has been my privilege to serve my country and the people of
>  Texas as U.S. Senator, and it isn't easy for me to leave the Senate.
>  I will miss my colleagues in Congress but I am heartened that we will
>  be working together on our top priority: jobs.  We want a stronger,
>  more competitive economy, one that is better able to create
>  opportunity.
>
>       I also welcome the chance to work with people like Roger Altman,
>  Bob Rubin, Leon Panetta, Alice Rivlin and other members of the
>  Clinton Administration.  I know many of them.  They bring the kind of
>  first-rate intellect and experience that are needed to meet the
>  challenges ahead.
>
>       Our administration inherits twin deficits of lagging investment
>  and unbalanced budgets.  We are determined to cut both down to size
>  in order to spur economic growth for the short run and boost
>  prosperity over the long haul.
>
>       The American people realize that these challenges didn't develop
>  overnight and won't be fixed overnight.  They are not looking for
>  miracles, but they do expect progress and they will see it.
>
>       I've known Governor Clinton for many years and we have shared
>  views when it comes to issues like economic fairness, growth, trade,
>  investment and deficit reduction.  His election has restored hope to
>  millions of American families and I'm honored to be asked to help him
>  turn that hope into reality.
>
>                                  -30-
>
>  NAME:                         Senator Lloyd Bentsen
>
>  SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:       Department of the Treasury
>
>  EDUCATION:                    J.D. Univ. of Texas School of Law
>
>  DOB:                          February 11, 1921
>
>        Senator Lloyd Bentsen is Chairman of the Senate Finance
>  Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation.  He is also a member
>  of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the
>  Joint Economic Committee.  He was first elected to the Senate in
>  1970.  In 1988, Senator Bentsen was the Democratic Party nominee for
>  Vice President of the United States.
>
>        Prior to his election to the Senate, Mr. Bentsen was a
>  successful businessman in Houston for 16 years.  By 1970, he had
>  become President of Lincoln Consolidated, a financial holding
>  institution.  His business career followed several years of public
>  service, first as County Judge of Hidalgo County and then as a Member
>  of Congress.  In 1954, after three successive terms in Congress, he
>  declined to seek reelection.
>
>        Mr. Bentsen served in the U.S. Army during World War II.  He
>  rose to the rank of Major as a B-24 pilot and Squadron Commander in
>  Europe.  Bentsen was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the
>  Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.  He was promoted to Colonel
>  in the Air Force Reserve before completing his military service.
>
>        Senator Bentsen is married to the former Beryl Ann Longino,
>  known as B.A., of Lufkin, Texas.  The Bentsens have three grown
>  children.
>
>                                  -30-
>
>                       STATEMENT OF ROGER C. ALTMAN
>               DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY - DESIGNEE
>
>       First, I want to thank President-elect Clinton for honoring me
>  with this prospective appointment.  It will be a special privilege
>  serving the President and the nation; and I hope to live up to it.  I
>  believe that Bill Clinton brings a new vision and a new energy to
>  this country, just when we need it.
>
>       Second, I am particularly looking forward to working with
>  Senator Bentsen.  He will be a strong and effective Secretary of the
>  Treasury.  The overwhelmingly positive response to reports of his
>  designation are testimony to that.  My job is to support him in every
>  way possible, and I commit all my energies to it.
>
>       Finally, the structural economic problems facing this country
>  are deep-seated and won't be solved overnight.  Only a long term plan
>  to increase investment and productivity, and improve our human
>  capital, will turn us around.  That's what the President-elect has
>  outlined, and our job is to put it into effect.  He has chosen an
>  economic team which can do it.
>
>                                       -30-
>
>  NAME:                                    Roger C. Altman
>
>  DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:           Department of the Treasury
>
>  EDUCATION:                               B.A. Georgetown Univ. (1967)
>                                           M.B.A. Univ. of Chicago
>
>       Roger C. Altman is Vice Chairman for The Blackstone Group, a
>  private merchant banking firm that specializes in international
>  mergers and acquisitions, principal investing and investment
>  management.
>
>       Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Altman had been a Managing
>  Director of Lehman Brothers.  Mr. Altman joined Lehman Brothers in
>  1969 as an associate.  He became a general partner in 1974, the
>  youngest to achieve the position in the Firm's post World War II
>  history.  That same year, Institutional Investor named him one of the
>  10 outstanding U.S. investment bankers under 40 years of age.  At the
>  time of the mid-1984 sale of Lehman, Mr. Altman was a member of its
>  seven- man Management Committee and of its Board of Directors.  He
>  also was one of the three managing directors responsible for the
>  Firm's investment banking activities.
>
>       From 1977 to 1980, Mr. Altman served as Assistant Secretary of
>  the Treasury for Domestic Finance.  As Assistant Secretary he was
>  responsible for: federal finance, including the Treasury's borrowing
>  programs; corporate finance, particularly the Chrysler financing
>  program; municipal finance, including the New York City rescue; and
>  financial institutions policy, mainly two major banking deregulation
>  statutes.
>
>       Mr. Altman also served as non-executive Chairman of the Public
>  Development Corporation of New York from 1985 through 1989.  This is
>  the primary economic development agency for New York City.  During
>  the 1985/1986 academic year, Mr. Altman also served, on a part time
>  basis, as a Donald C. Dayton Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Yale
>  School of Organization and Management.  He taught an original course,
>  entitled "Washington as Financier," to second year graduate
>  students.  Since 1990, he has been serving as co-chairman of Mayor's
>  Management Advisory Task Force.  This group consists of several chief
>  executives, the municipal labor leaders, and the four  senior City
>  officials.  Its mission is to assist in the "downsizing" of City
>  government.
>
>       Mr. Altman is a Director of the Children's Television Workshop,
>  Inc., the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies,
>  the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Citizens Budget
>  Commission.  He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
>  and is Chairman of the Cities in School Program for New York City.
>
>       Born in 1945, Mr. Altman was raised in Boston.    He lives in
>  Manhattan with his wife Jurate Kazickas, a documentary filmmaker, and
>  their three young children.
>
>  DEPARTMENT TITLE:               Office of Management and Budget
>
>  DIRECTOR DESIGNEE:              Representative Leon E. Panetta (D-CA)
>
>  DEPUTY DIRECTOR DESIGNEE:       Alice M. Rivlin
>
>        Responsible for preparing the national budget and serving as a
>  clearinghouse for congressional spending proposals, the Office of
>  Management and Budget is an advisory body that works to keep
>  government spending in line with the President's plan.
>
>  Among the functions of the OMB:
>
>  Preparing the national budget;
>  Supervising and controlling the administration of the budget;
>  Ensuring government policies are implemented efficiently and
>  economically;
>  Assisting the President in proposing legislation;
>  Developing regulatory reform;
>  Assisting in the preparation of executive orders;
>  Planning and developing information systems;
>  Ensuring programs are meeting their objectives;
>  Keeping the President informed of the overall activities of
>  government.
>
>       Through advisory reports, the OMB keeps the President up-to-date
>  on how well government programs are serving their purpose and staying
>  within allowed costs.  The strength behind the office's
>  recommendations is its authority to increase or decrease the budgets
>  of other executive departments.  The OMB is headed by a Director, who
>  is appointed by the President with Senate approval.
>
>       The Office of Management and Budget came into its own in 1939,
>  when the former Bureau of the Budget was transferred from the
>  Department of the Treasury to the Executive Office of the President.
>  The office was originally inspired by the British practice of
>  collecting, collating and correlating the spending plans of the
>  United States government.
>
>  (Source: The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary)
>
>                                    -30-30-30-
>
>               STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE LEON E. PANETTA
>         DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET-DESIGNEE
>
>        Bill Clinton was elected in November with a strong mandate from
>  the American people to strengthen our nation's economy for the future
>  and provide a better life for our children and grandchildren.  I am
>  proud and honored that he has asked me to help him fulfill that
>  mandate.  I look forward to working with him and the rest of his
>  outstanding economic team in meeting this great and important
>  challenge.
>
>       We need, and President-elect Clinton is planning, a bold and
>  comprehensive economic plan for this nation.  That will not be easy.
>  While there is a renewed sense of hope and confidence in the future,
>  there remain some deep and fundamental problems in the economy:
>  budget deficits that rob our private and public resources; inadequate
>  growth, jobs, and investment; and weak productivity and
>  competitiveness.  It will be the responsibility of every American to
>  face up to these problems and restore our future.
>
>       This new President and the new Congress have an unprecedented
>  opportunity to help bring about the changes that are needed.  I am
>  proud to be a part of that effort and, like the American people,
>  anxious to begin.
>
>                                       -30-
>
>  NAME:                           Representative Leon E. Panetta
>
>  DIRECTOR DESIGNEE FOR:          Office of Management and Budget
>
>  EDUCATION:                      B.A. Univ. of Santa Clara (1960)
>                                           magna cum laude
>                                  J.D. Univ. of Santa Clara Law School
>
>  DOB:                             June 28, 1938
>
>       Representative Leon Panetta is Chairman of the House Budget
>  Committee.  He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from
>  California's 16th (now 17th) Congressional District in 1976; elected
>  in 1992 to ninth term; Chairman, House Budget Committee,
>  1989-present, member, House Budget Committee, 1979-84; member,
>  Agriculture Committee, House Administration Committee, Select
>  Committee on Hunger; former Chairman, Subcommittee on Domestic
>  Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition, Subcommittee on
>  Personnel and Police; former Vice Chairman, Caucus of Vietnam-Era
>  Veterans in Congress; former member, President's commission on
>  Foreign Language and International Studies.
>
>       Author of measures to reduce domestic hunger, including the
>  Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-435); author of Fair
>  Employment Practices Resolution, extending civil rights protections
>  to House employees for first time; author of numerous successful
>  measures to protect environmentally sensitive California coastal
>  areas from offshore oil and gas drilling; author of successful
>  measure to create National Marine Sanctuary at Monterey Bay; key
>  participant in 1990 Budget Summit; author of legislation which
>  established  Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement of hospice care for
>  the terminally ill.
>
>       Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senate Minority Whip Thomas H.
>  Kuchel, CA, 1966-69; special assistant to Secretary of U.S.
>  Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1969; Director of the
>  U.S. Office for Civil Rights, 1969-70; Executive Assistant to the
>  Mayor of New York City, 1970-71; attorney, law firm of Panetta,
>  Thompson & Panatta, 1971-76.
>
>       Served as 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, 1964-66, received
>  Army Commendation Medal.
>
>       Married to the former Sylvia Marie Varni; three sons:
>  Christopher (29), Carmelo (28), and James (23).
>
>                                  -30-
>
>                       STATEMENT OF ALICE M. RIVLIN
>    DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET - DESIGNEE
>
>       I believe the Clinton Administration, working with the Congress
>  and with state and local governments, has an enormous  opportunity to
>  brighten America's long run economic future.  Reinvigorating the
>  economy requires strategic investment, both  public and private, in
>  skills and technology.  It requires increasing the efficiency of
>  government, using the taxpayer's money wisely and carefully, and
>  getting the huge federal deficit firmly on a downward track. None of
>  this will be easy.
>
>       This is a strong, experienced economic team and I am proud to be
>  on it.  I have known and admired Leon Panetta since 1969.  I enjoyed
>  working with him on Capitol Hill.  I look forward to working with him
>  at the Office of Management and Budget.
>
>                                    -30-30-30-
>
>  NAME:                           Alice M. Rivlin
>
>  DEPUTY DIRECTOR DESIGNEE FOR:   Office of Management and Budget
>
>  EDUCATION:                      Bryn Mawr College (1952)
>                                  Ph.D Econ., Radcliffe College  (1958)
>
>       Alice M. Rivlin is Hirst Professor of Pubic Policy at George
>  Mason University and a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at The
>  Brookings Institution (on leave).
>
>       Ms. Rivlin was the founding Director of the Congressional Budget
>  Office and served in that post from 1975 to 1983.  She was Director
>  of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
>  (1983-1987) and also served as Assistant Secretary for Planning and
>  Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
>
>       Ms. Rivlin's most recent book, Reviving the American Dream: The
>  Economy, the States, and the Federal Government, was published by the
>  Brookings Institution in 1992.  She is also the author of systematic
>  Thinking for Social Action (1971), and The Role of the Federal
>  Government in Financing Higher Education, (1961); and coauthor of
>  numerous Brookings books including Economic Choices:  1984, Economic
>  Choices: 1987, The Swedish Economy (1987) and Caring for the Disabled
>  elderly:  Who Will Pay? (1988).  Ms. Rivlin writes a regular column
>  for the Los Angeles Times and is a frequent contributor to other
>  newspapers, magazines, and journals.
>
>       Ms. Rivlin has been President of the American Economic
>  Association and chaired the Commission on Budget and Financial
>  Priorities of the District of Columbia.  She is a Director of the
>  Unisys Corporation, the Union Carbide Corporation, TJ International,
>  the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the D.C. Service Corps, and
>  a member of the Governing Council of the Wilderness Society.  She
>  receive a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship (1983-88) and has
>  been a Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at
>  Harvard University.
>
>       Born in Philadelphia in 1931, Ms. Rivlin grew up in Bloomington,
>  Indiana.  She is married to Sidney G. Winter and has three grown
>  children and two grandchildren.
>
>                                       -30-
>
>  NAME:                         Robert E. Rubin
>
>  ADMINISTRATION POST:          Chairman, National Economic Council
>
>  EDUCATION:                    A.B. Harvard College (1960)
>                                London School of Economics (1961)
>                                L.L.B. Yale Law School
>
>       Mr. Rubin is a Co-Senior Partner and Co-Chairman of Goldman
>  Sachs & Co. of New York, where he has worked in various capacities
>  since 1966.  Prior to joining Goldman Sachs & Co., he was an attorney
>  for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton of New York from 1964- 1966.
>
>       Among his many activities are included: Partner and Member of
>  the Board of Directors for the New York City Partnership, Inc.;
>  Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Market Oversight
>  and Financial Services Advisory Committee; Member, Board of
>  Directors, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.; Member, Board of Trustees,
>  Carnegie Corporation of New York; Member, Board of Directors, Harvard
>  Management Co., Inc.; Member, Mayor's Council of Economic Advisors
>  (New York City); Member, Governor's Council on Fiscal and Economic
>  Priorities; Federal Reserve Bank of NY International Capital Markets
>  Advisory Committee (ICMAC).
>
>       Mr. Rubin was born in 1938 in New York City.  He is married to
>  Judith Oxenberg Rubin, who is the Commissioner of Protocol for the
>  City of New York.  They have two children, James and Philip.
>
>                                  -30-
>
>                      STATEMENT OF ROBERT E. RUBIN
>
>       I have long felt that unless the country faces its economic
>  problems, it would run the serious risk of experiencing
>  unsatisfactory economic conditions into the indefinite future.
>
>       I felt from the very beginning of the Presidential campaign that
>  Governor Clinton's agenda represented an effective response to those
>  problems, and I appreciate the confidence the Governor has expressed
>  in asking me to join the team to help implement that agenda.
>
>       I have had a long career at an outstanding financial institution
>  and leaving that institution and its people has been exceedingly
>  difficult personally for me.  However, I really believe that this
>  country is at an historical crossroads with respect to its economy
>  and I look forward to contributing to the team effort to achieving
>  satisfactory long term economic conditions.
>
>       The creation of a National Economic Council and the position of
>  Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, like the National
>  Security apparatus, is designed to demonstrate the commitment to
>  focusing on economic issues in The White House and to facilitate more
>  effective development and implementation of economic policy with
>  regard to both domestic and international issues.  Establishing and
>  instituting these mechanisms for better economic policy is a major
>  challenge and I look forward to working with the rest of the economic
>  team to meet this challenge.
>
>                                  -30-
>
>                               End of post.
>
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