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Subject: CLINTON: Today's Appointments by the President-elect
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:22:30 GMT
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 Posted by: The Office of the President-elect
 Date:      December 17, 1992

 DEPARTMENT TITLE:        Dept. of Housing and Urban Development


 SECRETARY DESIGNEE:      Henry Cisneros

      The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the chief
 federal agency responsible for addressing the problems of urban
 decay.

      By offering public housing assistance, urban renewal financial
 grants and government-guaranteed home purchase loans, the agency
 seeks to rebuild communities rundown by poverty, crime or
 unemployment.

      The agency also administers mortgage insurance programs, rental
 subsidies for low-income people, anti-discrimination laws in housing,
 and neighborhood rehabilitation programs.  Among the other programs
 HUD has launched: housing for the elderly and handicapped, inner city
 open space, college housing, demonstration housing, the development
 of urban public facilities and community renewal.

      The main operating units of the department are:

      Housing Production and Mortgage Credit
      Federal Housing Commission
      Federal Insurance Administration
      Community Development
      Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and Equal Opportunity

      The department was established in 1965 to provide incentives for
 private homebuilding and encourage the solution of housing problems
 through local initiative.

      (Source: The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary)

                            -30-30-30-

 Following is the statement of Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing
 and Urban Development designee:

 Thank you President-elect Clinton for giving me the opportunity to
 serve your administration and your goals, to serve our country, and
 to serve the ideals that have been for so long a part of my own life.

 I experienced a sense of urgency about our nation's challenges in
 1992 -- first in the civil disturbances in Los Angeles last Spring
 and then in the experiences along the campaign trail this Fall, where
 I saw the desperate straits of so many Americans, but also the hope
 in their faces as they worked for Bill Clinton.  They seemed to say
 life in America can be more than the crime, youth gangs, older people
 locked up in their own apartments, unsafe schools, declining
 industries, and tired cities and towns that so many Americans live in
 today.

   I sense that we have limited time for America, that we cannot talk
 about the economy and not talk about our cities and towns, our poor
 of all races, and that we must use the best of technology and the
 best of our talents to pull it all together to create quality of life
 settings together with people all across America.  It breaks my heart
 every time I am in a meeting and hear people talk about writing off
 neighborhoods, or entire cities, or worst of all a generation of our
 youth.

   I am glad to join President-elect Clinton in his quest for
 inclusiveness in decisionmaking.  I am obviously proud of my Hispanic
 heritage and understand the diversity that is America as it manifests
 itself in our society.  We must take our cues from his civics of
 participation and his new citizen democracy of patient dialouge, real
 listening, and respect for people.

   I have signed on to do what I can do for our country.  I want to
 thank President-elect Clinton and my family.

 NAME:                         Henry Cisneros

 SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:       Housing and Urban Development
 TRANSITION POST:              Transition Board Member
 CAMPAIGN POST:                Senior Advisor

 EDUCATION:                    B.A./M.A. Urban & Regional Planning,
                                    Texas A&M Univ.
                               M.A. Public Administration, Harvard
                               Ph.D. Public Adm., George Washington
 Univ.

      Mr. Cisneros began his career in government working as
 administrative assistant in the San Antonio City Manager's office.
 In 1971, he became a White House Fellow and served as an assistant to
 the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington.  Henry
 Cisneros was elected to the San Antonio City Council in 1975.  He
 served as a Councilman until 1981, when he was elected Mayor of San
 Antonio, the nation's tenth-largest city.

      Henry Cisneros is Chairman of Cisneros Asset Management Company,
 a national fixed-income asset management firm for tax- exempt
 institutions and Cisneros Benefit Group.  He hosts Texans, a one-hour
 television show produced quarterly in Texas and Adelante, a national
 daily Spanish-language radio commentary.

      Mr. Cisneros was recently elected Deputy Chairman of the Federal
 Reserve Bank of Dallas.  He is also co-chair of the National Hispanic
 Leadership Agenda, an organization committed to defining the common
 policy interests of the nation's Hispanic population.  He is a member
 of the Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees, Chairman of the
 advisory committee on the construction of San Antonio's Alamodome and
 Chairman of the National Civic League.

      Cisneros also served on the President's Bi-Partisan Commission
 on Central America, on the Bilateral Commission on the Future of
 United States-Mexican Relations and in 1986 was President of the
 National League of Cities.  In 1984, Henry Cisneros was interviewed
 by the Democratic Presidential Nominee as a potential Vice
 Presidential candidate.  During the 1987 Presidential Summit Meeting
 with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, then Vice President
 George Bush asked Cisneros to Assist him in briefing Mr. Gorbachev.

 DEPARTMENT TITLE:             Department of Veterans Affairs

 SECRETARY DESIGNEE:           Jesse Brown

 DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE:    Hershel Gober

      The Department of Veterans Affairs is responsible for the
 administration of various laws providing benefits for veterans and
 their dependents.  Some of its many duties include:

      *    Payment of  compensation for disability or death related
           to military service

      *    Deciding pensions based on financial need for totally
           disabled veterans

      *    Providing assistance for education, rehabilitation, home
           loans and burial

      *    Administering a comprehensive medical program involving
           1,700 hospitals and medical centers, nursing homes and
           clinics

      *    Dispensing college benefits to veterans

      *    Maintaining loan guarantee programs that provide credit
           assistance to veterans and active duty service personnel
           for home building

      *    Operating an insurance program for veterans and
           administering the National Cemetery system

      More than half the American people are concerned directly or
 indirectly by programs administered by the Department of Veterans
 Affairs.

                     STATEMENT OF JESSE BROWN

              SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS-DESIGNEE


      President-elect Clinton, with pride I accept your nomination.

      Reflecting your genuine and deep concern for veterans and their
 families, I will be a Secretary for Veteran Affairs, not a Secretary
 of Veteran Affairs.

      We will move forward in an aggressive manner on the issues that
 are of vital concern to you and to the veterans of this nation.
 Issues such as health care reform, quality health care and an
 efficient and effective benefits delivery system.  We will be
 innovative.  We will be proactive, not reactive, in our efforts.
 This is my pledge to President-elect, this is my pledge to the
 American people, this is my pledge to this nation's 27 million
 veterans.

 NAME:                         Jesse Brown

 SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:       Department of Veterans Affairs

 EDUCATION:                    Chicago City College


      Jesse Brown, 48, is a combat-disabled Vietnam veteran who
 presently serves as Executive Director of the Disabled American
 Veterans (DAV) National Service and Legislative Headquarters in
 Washington.

      In that capacity, he directed the 1.3 million member
 organization's advocacy and lobbying efforts before the Congress and
 the Executive Branch and provides policy guidance in the shaping of
 federal law, agency regulations and national issues that directly
 affect the lives of this nation's disabled veterans, their families
 and survivors.

      In addition, he supervised the organization's national programs
 of Service, Legislation, Employment and Voluntary Services, involving
 a staff of more than 400 employees in 70 offices nationwide.

      Brown has been an advocate for disabled veterans for more than
 Q25 years and an employee of the DAV since 1967.  He enlisted in the
 Marine Corps in 1963 and was wounded in 1965 while on patrol near
 Danang.  Serious gunshot wounds to his right arm have left that limb
 partially paralyzed.

      Brown has held a variety of supervisory and executive-level
 positions with the DAV throughout his career.  He is the principal
 author of the DAV's extensive, continuing training program for DAV
 National Service Officers.

      Mr. Brown joined the DAV's professional staff in 1967 as an NSO
 trainee in Chicago.  He moved to Washington in 1973 to supervise the
 DAV's National Service Office there.  In 1976, he was promoted to
 supervisor of the DAV National Appeals Staff.  In 1981, he moved to
 the DAV's National Service and Legislative Headquarters in Washington
 as Chief of Claims.  In 1983, he was named Deputy National Service
 Director.

      Brown is a life member of DAV Chapter 6 in Chicago and has
 served as vice president of the Vietnam Civic Council, as well as a
 member of the White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals and
 the Chicago Mayor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.

      He is married to Sylvia L. Brown.  They have one son, Scott and
 one daughter, Carmen.



                    STATEMENT OF HERSHEL GOBER
          DEPUTY SECRETARY OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS-DESIGNEE

      President-elect Clinton, Vice President-elect Gore, ladies and
 gentlemen, and a special recognition to my wife Olivia, my family and
 my friends.

      I am deeply touched by this honor and I know that without the
 support of Arkansas veterans I would not be here.

      Over the past year as Governor Clinton traveled the Country he
 spoke of the issues facing all Americans and on numerous occasions he
 addressed the special issues facing America's 27 million veterans and
 their families.  As Governor of Arkansas, Governor Clinton worked
 closely with the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs and the
 various veterans organizations and was very sensitive to the issues
 facing Arkansas' veterans.  With his selection of Jesse Brown as the
 Secretary of Veterans Affairs he has shown he is sensitive to the
 issues facing America's veterans.  Just as President Clinton and Vice
 President Gore will be a team, my friend Jesse Brown and I will be a
 team to ensure that the voices of America's veterans are heard.

      Thank you.

  NAME:                              HERSHEL W. GOBER

 DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:     DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS

      Hershel W. Gober, a veteran of both the Marines and the Army,
 was appointed by Bill Clinton as Directer of the Arkansas Department
 of Veterans Affairs on January 1, 1988.

      Gober served 17 years as an Army officer and a 3 year enlisted
 tour in the Marines, as well as serving in the Army Reserve.  He
 served two tours of duty in Vietnam, and retired with the rank of
 Major.  For this service he has received countless military
 decorations including the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, service and
 commendation medals,  numerous Vietnam awards and medals, and the
 Combat Infantryman and Parachutist Badges.  He is a member of the
 American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the
 Purple Heart, and the Marine Corps League, among other veterans
 organizations.

      As Director of Arkansas' Department of Veterans' Affairs, he has
 been a strong advocate of preserving veterans' benefits and of
 imroving the state's various programs for veteran's, particularly the
 Arkansas Veterans Home, the County Veteran Service Office system, and
 the Veterans Assistance Program.  Through these programs, Gober has
 ensured that Arkansas veterans receive all of the respect and service
 which they have earned.  He has also vigorously supported such
 activities as a Flag Education Program for 5th-grade students which
 has been copied by other states, and was co-chairman of Arkansas'
 Operation Welcome Home celebration, the largest such event the state
 has ever had.

      Gober is a resident of Monticello, Arkansas, where he was born
 in 1936.  He and his wife, Olivia, have six children.

                               -30-

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