From: borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Dave Borden)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.president.clinton
Subject: Re: Clint's appointments
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:28:51 GMT
Reply-To: borden@m5.harvard.edu
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

In article <1993Jan8.232102.6843@cis.ohio-state.edu> csmith@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (craig edward smith) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.175257.17960@m5.harvard.edu> borden@m5.harvard.edu writes:

>>No, the fact is that Clarence Thomas is NOT qualified to sit on the Supreme
>>Court, sexual harassment or not.  Whereas all of Clinton's appointments are
>>highly qualified for their jobs.
>>
>>    - Dave Borden
>>      borden@m5.harvard.edu
>
>And the winner of the Academy Award for rediculous, unsupported, patently
>absurd statements said with a straight face is: DAVE BORDEN!
>
>ALL of them are HIGHLY qualified? You checked ALL of their credentials and
>background? And Judge Thomas' too? Where do you find time to study?

More will follow on Thomas, in a later post,  But as for Clinton's
appointments, here they are, since you asked:  (I'm missing Babbitt,
and maybe others of the last few appointments.  But most of them are here.)


 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.


 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.


 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.


 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.


 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).


NAME:                                     Robert B. Reich

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:                   Department of Labor

TRANSITION POST:                          Director of Economic Policy
CAMPAIGN POST:                            Senior Advisor

EDUCATION:                                Dartmouth College (undergrad)
                                          J.D. Yale Law
                                          M.Phil. Economics, Oxford
                                          Rhodes Scholar

      Robert B. Reich is one of America's foremost political economists.
According to Fortune Magazine, "no one is better than Robert Reich at
describing the challenges facing America from the emerging global
economy."  That's why Fortune named him among 25 individuals who are
making this country more competitive.  Reich's latest book, The Work of
the Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism,
examines the national purpose within the emerging global economy.
His 1983 best-seller, The Next American Frontier, launched a national
debate about America's industrial strategy.

      A member of the faculty of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Reich is the author of many books on government, business,
and the international economy.  His articles appear regularly in the
Harvard Business Review and the Atlantic.  Reich is also a contributing
editor of The New Republic and of World Policy; chairman of the
editorial board of The American Prospect, a regular columnist for
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's leading newspaper; a frequent contributor
to the op-ed pages of The New York Times and other newspapers; and a
regular commentator on public radio's "Marketplace" and public
television's "Nightly Business Report."  Reich is the host and
co-author of the acclaimed PBS television series, Made in America,
which was first shown in May, 1992.

      Before coming to Harvard, Mr. Reich has had a distinguished
government career.  He served as Assistant to the Solicitor General
in the Ford Administration, and was the Director of Policy Planning
for the Federal Trade Commission in the Carter Administration. He
continues to be a leading advisor to politicians, corporations, and
government agencies. 


NAME:                              Dr. Donna E. Shalala

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:            Health and Human Services

EDUCATION:                         Western College for Women (1962)
                                   Ph.D. Syracuse Univ. Maxwell School
                                   of Citizenship & Public Affairs

Dr. Donna E. Shalala is professor of Political Science and Chancellor
of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.  The first woman to lead a
Big Ten university, she came to the campus in January 1988.

She leads the nation's sixth largest university and the largest public
research university.  During the past five years, she has launched
efforts:  to strengthen undergraduate education; to become more
competitive in recruiting and retaining top faculty, staff and
students; to upgrade research facilities; to promote diversity and
increase opportunities for women and minorities on campus; to increase
private support for the institution; and to strengthen the university's
research programs.

She was named one of the top five managers in higher education by
Business Week magazine and was identified as one of the fifty most
powerful women in the United States by the Ladies' Home Journal.  
After restructuring the UW- Madison Athletic Department, she became a
leading proponent of the reform of intercollegiate athletics through
her activities as a member of the Knight Commission.

Prior to coming to UW- Madison, Dr. Shalala served for seven years as
the president of Hunter College.  She also served as professor and
chair of the program in politics and education at Teachers College,
Columbia University.  She was assistant secretary for policy
development and research in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development during the Carter Administration.  She is a member of the
National Academy of Education, the National Academy of Public
administration and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She was
the 1992 winner of the National Public Service Award, and the 
recipient of 17 honorary degrees.

Public service has been a hallmark of her career.  After college, she
spent two years in the Peace Corps in Iran, teaching English and
working in community development.  Currently, she is chair of the
board of the Children's Defense Fund and a member of the board of
trustees of the Committee for Economic Development, Spelman College,
The Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Foundation, the Spencer
Foundation and Institute for International Economics.


NAME:                              LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON

CHAIR DESIGNEE FOR:                Council of Economic Advisors

EDUCATION:                         B.A. Smith College
                                   Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
                                          Technology


Laura D'Andrea Tyson is Professor of Economics and Business
Administration, Director of the Institute of International Studies,
and Research Director for the Berkeley Roundtable on the International
Economy at the University of California at Berkeley.  During the period
1990-1992, she served as a visiting scholar at the Institute for
International Economics.  

Professor Tyson served as an economic advisor to the Clinton/ Gore '92
Committee and is a member of President- elect Clinton's economic
transition team.  She is a member of the Cuomo Commission on Trade 
and Competitiveness, the advisory board of the Economic Policy 
Institute Research Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the
subcommittee on a Global Economic Strategy for the United States.  She
is a member of the Los Angeles Times Board of Economists.

Professor Tyson has written a number of books and articles on the
economics of competitiveness.  Her latest book is entitled Who's
Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries
(Washington, D.C.:  Institute for International Economics, 1992).
Her other publications in this area include:  American Industry in
International Competition (co- edited with John Zysman), Cornell
University Press, 1983; "The Economic Black Hole" (with Lester Thurow),
Foreign Policy, Summer, 1987; "Competitiveness:  an Analysis of the
Problem and a Perspective on Future Policy", Global Competitiveness:
Getting the U.S. Back on Track (edited by Martin Starr), Norton, 1988;
The Dynamics of Trade and Politics and Productivity:  The Real Story
of How Japan Works (co-edited with Chalmers Johnson and John Zysman),
Ballinger, 1989.  "Managed Trade:  Making the Best of the Second Best"
recently appeared in An American Trade Strategy:  Options for the
1990's, Robert Z. Lawrence and Charles L. Schultze Editors, the
Brookings Institute, 1990.

Professor Tyson has also written extensively on the economies of
Eastern Europe.  Her most recent publication in this area is Power, 
Purpose and Collective Choice:  Economic Strategy in Socialist States
(Co-edited with Ellen Comisso), Cornell University Press, 1986.


NAME:                                     Carol M. Browner

TRANSITION POST:                          Director of Transition for 
                                          the Vice President-Elect

EDUCATION:                                Univ. of Florida (undergrad)
                                          J.D. Univ. of Florida

       Governor Lawton Chiles appointed Carol M. Browner to head the
Florida Department of Environmental Regulation in January of 1991.

       The Department, Florida's principal environmental protection
agency, has some 1,700 employees working in six major environmental
program divisions and six district offices throughout the state.

       Secretary Browner, a Miami native, received her law degree in
1979 from the University of Florida, where she also did her
undergraduate work.  Having seen Florida's growth and its impact on
the state's natural resources, Ms. Browner has devoted most of her
public service career to the protection of the environment.

       As General Counsel for the Florida House of Representatives
Government Operations Committee, she helped revise Florida's
Conservation and Recreational Lands Program.  Subsequently she was
Chief Legislative Aide on environmental issues for then U.S. Senator
Lawton Chiles and was involved in complex negotiations to expand Big
Cypress Natural Preserve, as well as a temporary moratorium on oil
drilling off the Florida Keys.

       Browner also helped create one of the largest protected federal
land areas east of the Mississippi by gaining federal funding for the 
federal acquisition of the Pinhook Swamp Area, the land connecting the 
Osceola National Forest in the northern part of the state near
Jacksonville and the Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern 
Georgia.

       Prior to her appointment as DER Secretary, Ms. Browner was
Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Al Gore, considered one of the
most active federal policymakers on environmental issues.  She managed
Senator Gore's legislative staff and implemented his environmental
agenda, including amendments to the Clean Air Act and other major
federal environmental legislation.


NAME:                         Ronald H. Brown

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:       Department of Commerce

EDUCATION:                    Middlebury College, BA
                              St. John's University School of Law,
                              JD



     The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee since 1989, 
Ron Brown has risen through the ranks of public service and
democratic politics over the past 20 years. 

     His first long-term venture in public service began in 1968
when Brown, at age 27, joined the National Urban League. Brown
stayed with the Urban League for 11 years, working his way up to
serve as the Urban League's Deputy Executive Director, Chief
Counsel and chief Washington spokesperson. In 1979, Brown left the
league to work for Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), serving as the
Deputy National Campaign Manager for Senator Kennedy's 1980
presidential bid. Brown later went on to serve as General Counsel
and Staff Director for Senator Kennedy and as Chief Counsel to the
Senate Judiciary Committee. 

     During the 1988 election Brown served as Democratic Convention
Manager for Jesse Jackson and was a senior political advisor to
the  Dukakis-Bentsen Campaign. 

     Brown is perhaps best-known for his work as Chairman of the
DNC, an organization he has served since 1981. Chairman for the
past three years, Brown previously served the committee as Chief
Counsel, Deputy Chair, Executive Committee member and as Chairman
of the Task Force on Voting Rights and Voter Participation. He has
been a partner in the Washington law firm Patron, Boggy & Blow
since 1982.


NAME:                         Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty

ADMINISTRATION POST:          White House Chief of Staff

EDUCATION:                    University of Arkansas (1968)

DOB:                          June 14, 1946



     Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty is Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Arkla, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Arkansas and
operating in nine states.

     Following his graduation from college, he returned to his
hometown and joined his father in the family automobile business. 
Together, they built McLarty Companies into one of the region's
largest transportation companies, including a regional truck
leasing operation and Arkansas' largest automobile dealer group.

     At age 23, he was elected as Arkansas' youngest state
representative, carrying every box in the county and receiving 74%
of the vote.  He later served as chairman of the Arkansas
Democratic party and as treasurer in the successful elections of
Governors David Pryor and Bill Clinton.

     McLarty became the youngest man ever elected to the Arkla
(Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company) board in 1974 and served as
chairman of the finance and audit committees.  He was elected
President of Arkla in May, 1983 and became President and Chief
Operating Officer of Arkla, Inc. the following year.  In January
1985, he assumed the positions of Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer.

     Mr. McLarty received outstanding chief executive recognition
from Financial World in 1987 and Arkla was named by Forbes as the
most innovative natural gas company in the nation for the same
year.

     He is a member of the American Gas Association and has been
recognized for four consecutive years as one of the outstanding
chief executive officers in the industry by the Wall Street
Transcript, the journal for chief executives.  Recently, McLarty
was appointed by the Secretary of Energy to the National Petroleum
Council in Washington, DC.

     Arkla recently completed construction of the nation's largest
pipeline project of the 1980's and 90's.  In February, McLarty
received the U.S. Fish and Wildlife's first Corporate Environmental
Stewardship Award for its sensitivity in constructing the pipeline.


     President Bush recognized Arkla at the White House in 1990 for
corporate citizenship for its Operation Good Neighbor Program. 
This program employs and trains disadvantaged youth during the
summer months.

     In 1991 under McLarty, Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company, a
division of Arkla, received the NAACP's Fair Share Award for its
efforts in achieving greater minority employment, promotions and
training.

     McLarty's civic activities are many and varied.  He serves on
the Board of Directors of Hendrix College and the Board of Visitors
of the University of Arkansas.  He is a former Chairman of the
United Negro College Fund Campaign.  McLarty is also a member and
former Chairman of the Greater Little Rock Chamber of Commerce.

     Mr. McLarty serves on the National Advisory Board for First
Commercial Bank and on the Boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis and of TCBY Enterprises, Inc. of Little Rock.  McLarty
also serves on the Board of Directors of the Transition Planning 
Foundation.


 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.


 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.


  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.


NAME:                         Richard W. Riley


SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:       Department of Education

TRANSITION POST:              Director of Personnel

EDUCATION:                    B.A. Political Science, Furman Univ.
                              J.D. Univ. of South Carolina School of Law

     Richard Wilson Riley was the 81st Governor of South Carolina,
serving from January 10, 1979 until January 15, 1987.  As Governor
of South Carolina, Dick Riley was a nationally recognized leader in
the areas of public education reform, nuclear waste disposal and
preventative health care.  His administration was marked by
conservative fiscal management of government and remarkable
progress in job development, quality education, aggressive
protection of the environment and improved health care for all
people.

     Among the significant legislation initiated by Governor Riley
during his administration was the Education Improvement Act, judged
the most comprehensive educational reform measure in the country by
a RAND Corporation study; the Medically Indigent Assistance Act,
the first statewide program in the nation dealing with the
medically indigent; the Employment Revitalization Act, aimed at
coordinaing occupational training statewide; the Omnibus Crime
Bill, which strengthened punishments for violent crimes while
dealing responsibly with prison overcrowding; Public Service
Commission Merit Selection; and the Radioactive Waste Management
Act, the nation's first legislation dealing with the disposal of
low level nuclear waste.

     Governor Riley is now a senior partner with the law firm of
Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, one of the oldest and largest
firms in South Carolina, having been established in 1870.  The firm
specializes in litigation, corporate, finance, taxation and real
estate law and now represents clients from across the United States
and a number of foreign countries.


NAME:                    Hazel Rollins O'Leary

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:  Department of Energy

EDUCATION:               B.A., Fisk College
                         J.D., Rutgers University School of Law


     Hazel O'Leary, a senior energy policy official in the Ford and
Carter Administrations, is the Executive Vice President of Northern
States Power Company in Minneapolis, MN.

     Prior to joining Northern States in 1989, Mrs. O'Leary was
Vice President and General Counsel for O'Leary Associates, an
international energy economics and strategic planning firm.  She
served in the U.S. Department of Energy after its formation by
President Carter, and in the Federal Energy Administration during
the Ford Administration.  During that period, she played a key role
in regulation of the oil, gas, and electrical industries, and in
implimentation of environmental and conservation policies.

     Since leaving the government, she has remained active in
public service.  She currently chairs the U.S. Department of
Energy's State Energy Advisory Board, and served on the Governor of
Minnesota's Commission on Long Term Financial Planning and
Management.  She is a trustee of the William Mitchell College of
Law and the St. Paul Minnesota Chamber Orchestra, a member of the
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Advisory Committee,
and is on the boards of the Greater Minneapolis Red Cross, the
Minneapolis Red Cross, the Minneapolis Foundation, and the
Northwest Area Foundation.  

     In addition, she is a board member of the Executive Leadership
Council, a leadership forum for black corporate executives, and a
member of the Committee of 200, an international organization of
leading businesswomen.

     O'Leary was formerly a partner at Coopers and Lybrand,
Assistant Attorney General of the State of New Jersey, Assistant
Prosecutor of Essex County, New Jersey, and General Counsel of the
U.S. Community Services Administration.


NAME:                                        Warren Christopher

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:                      Secretary of State

TRANSITION POST:                             Transition Board Member

EDUCATION:                                   Univ. of Southern California
(1945)
                                             Stanford Law School (1949)

      Mr. Christopher was born in Scranton, North Dakota, on October
27, 1925. From July 1943 to September 1946, he served in the Naval
reserve, with active duty as an Ensign in the Pacific Theater.

      From October 1949 to September 1950, Mr. Christopher served as
law clerk to Justice William O. Douglas of the United States
Supreme Court.  He then Practiced law with the firm of O'Melveny &
Myers from October 1950 to June 1967, becoming a partner in 1958. 
Mr. Christopher served as Deputy Attorney General of the United
States from June 1967 until January 20, 1969, after which he
rejoined O'Melveny & Myers.

      Mr. Christopher was sworn in on February 26, 1977 as the
Deputy Secretary of State of the United States and served in that
position until January 20, 1981.  President Carter awarded him the
Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, on January
16, 1981.  He rejoined O'Melveny & Myers in February 1981 and is
now the firm's Chairman.

      Mr. Christopher's professional activities have included
service as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association
(1974-75); Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Federal
Judiciary of the American Bar Association (1975-76); Chairman of
the Standing Committee on Aeronautical Law of the ABA (1966-77);
member of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California
(1975-76); and Special Counsel to California Governor Edmund G.
Brown in 1959.

      His civic activities have included: Member of the Board of
Trustees of Stanford University (1971-77, 1981-91, 1992-present)
(President, 1985-88); Director, Southern California Edison Company
(1971-77, 1981-present); Director, First Interstate Bancorp (1981-
present); Director, Lockheed Corporation (1987-present); Chairman,
Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees (1990); Director
and Vice-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations (1982-91);
Director, Los Angeles World Affairs Council (1987-present); Vice
Chairman of Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots (1965-
66); member of the Trilateral Commission (1975-77, 1981-88);
Special Consultant to Under Secretary George W. Ball on Foreign
Economic Problems (1961-65); President, Coordinating Council for
Higher Education in the State of California (1963-65); Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988-present); member of
the Executive Committee of the America Agenda (1988).


NAME:                                        Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.

DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:               Department of State

EDUCATION:                                   B.A.  Harvard University
                                             M.A.  International Studies,
                                                     John's Hopkins University
                                             Ph.D. Economics,
                                                   University of Chicago



      Dr. Wharton began his career in 1948 as a foundation official
assisting developing nations in Latin America and then in Southeast
Asia.  He is a recipient of the Joseph Wilson Award and the
Presidential Freedom from Hunger Award.  Dr. Wharton was also a
trustee and then Chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, the first
African-American to chair the board of a major U.S. foundation.

      In 1970, Dr. Wharton was elected President of Michigan State
University, thereby becoming the first Black to head a
predominately white university in the United States.  Upon leaving
MSU in 1978, he became the Chancellor of the State University of
New York System, the largest university system in the country with
64 campuses and 380,000 students.

      In 1987, Wharton was chosen to be Chairman and CEO of Teachers
Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement
Equities Fund.  With assets of $112 billion, TIAA-CREF is the
largest private pension fund in the world and the third largest
insurance company in the U.S.  Once again Wharton pioneered as the
first Black to head a Fortune 100 company.

      Dr. Wharton serves as a director of the Ford Motor Company,
the New York Stock Exchange, and the Council on Foreign Relations. 
He has held presidential appointments under four presidents, among
them he served as the first chairman of the Board for International
Food and Agricultural Development, AID, U.S. Department of State. 
He has also been a consultant to various UN agencies and foreign
governments.

      Dr. Wharton, the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Chicago, holds 48 honorary
degrees.  He is the son of the late Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., the
first Black career Ambassador who was a U.S. Foreign Service
Officer for 40 years.


NAME:                           Anthony Lake

ADMINISTRATION POST:            National Security Advisor

EDUCATION:                      A.B. Harvard College, magna cum laude (1961)
                                Ph.D. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
                                Affairs, Princeton University (1974)                
                                                    


Mr. Lake currently divides his time between the farm he and his wife manage in western
Massachusetts and Mount Holyoke College, where he has been Five College Professor of
International Relations since 1981.  He also served as a Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the
Clinton/Gore campaign.

In 1961, Mr. Lake received an A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.  He then
read international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to receive his Ph.D.
from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
in 1974.

Mr. Lake joined the State Department in 1962, where he served until 1970 as a Foreign Service
Officer.  His distinguished State Department career included assignments as U.S. Vice Consul
in Saigon, Vietnam (1963), U.S. Vice Consul in Hue, Vietnam (1964-1965), and Special
Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1969-1970).

After work with the Muskie campaign, the Carnegie Endowment and International Voluntary
Services, Mr. Lake returned to the State Department in 1977 to serve as Director of Policy
Planning for President Carter, a position he held until 1981.

Mr. Lake is the author of several books including Somoza Falling (1989), Our Own Worst
Enemy:  The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy (co-author) (1984) and The "Tar Baby"
Option:  American Policy Toward Southern Rhodesia (1976).  In addition, he edited After the
Wars (1990) and was a contributing editor to Legacy of Vietnam:  The War, American Society,
and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy (1976).


NAME:                                  Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger

ADMINISTRATION POST:                   Deputy National Security Advisor
TRANSITION POST:                       Senior Foreign Policy Advisor
CAMPAIGN POST:                         Senior Foreign Policy Advisor

EDUCATION:                             B.A., Cornell (1967)
                                       J.D. Harvard  (1971)


      Mr. Berger has varied experience in government, having served as Special Assistant to
former New York City Mayor John Lindsay; Legislative Assistant for former U.S. Senator
Harold Hughes (Iowa) and Congressman Joseph Resnick (NY); and Deputy Director of the
Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State, 1977-1980.  During his tenure at the State
Department, Mr. Berger served under Secretaries of State Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie and
was involved in a wide variety of international economic, security and foreign policy matters.

      Mr. Berger has also been active Democratic Party affairs, serving as advisor and
speechwriter to Democratic Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and advising Senators
and Members of Congress.

      Mr. Berger has written on political and international affairs, including articles in The
New York Times. He is also on the board of the International Human Rights Law Group and
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Dollar Harvest, a book
on American rural politics.

      Mr. Berger is on leave from the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where he
is a partner.


NAME:                           R. James Woolsey

SECRETARY DESIGNEE FOR:         Central Inelligence Agency

EDUCATION:                      B.A. Stanford Univ. (1963)
                                M.A. St. John's College, Oxford (1965)
                                Rhodes Scholarship
                                LL.B Yale Law School (1968)

DOE:                            September 21, 1941 (Tulsa, OK)


       James Woolsey is presently a partner in the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington,
DC.  His other positions include: 
Ambassador and U.S. Representative to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in
Europe (CFE), Vienna (1989-91); Partner, Shea & Gardner (1979-89); Under Secretary of the
Navy, 1977-79); Associate, Shea & Gardner (1973-73); General Counsel to U.S. Senate
Committee on Armed Services (1970-73); Advisor, U.S. Delegation to Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna; Program Analyst, Office of the Secretary of
Defense and National Security Council Staff; Captain, United States Army (1968-70).

      Woolsey served on several Presidential Commissions, including: President's Commission
on Federal Ethics Law Reform, President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management
and the President's Commission on Strategic Forces.  He was also a Delegate at Large to U.S.-
Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks in Geneva
(1983-86).

      His other activities include: 

      Regent:      Smithsonian Institution (1989-present)

      Trustee:     Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
                   (1989-present)

                   The Aerospace Corporation (1982-89)

                   Stanford Universtiy (1972-74)


NAME:                           Madeleine Korbel Albright

ADMINISTRATION POST:            U.N. Ambassador

EDUCATION:                      B.A. Wellesley College (1959)
                                School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins
                                University (1962-63)
                                M.A. and Ph.D. Columbia University's Department     of
                                Public Law and Government                     


      For the past three years, Ms. Albright has combined her work as president of the
Washington, DC-based public policy organization, the Center for National Policy with her role
as Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of Women in Foreign Service at
Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where she has been a faculty member since
1982. 

      To both of these positions, Ms. Albright has brought extensive foreign policy experience. 
A native of Czechoslovakia, she speaks four languages:  French, Czech, Russian and Polish. In
addition to her other degrees, she earned a Certificate in Russian Studies from Columbia's
Russian Institute.

      In 1976, Ms. Albright joined the staff of Senator Edmund S. Muskie as his Chief
Legislative Assistant.  Two years later, in 1978, she moved from Capitol Hill to the White
House where she served on the National Security Council staff and was responsible for national
security legislation.

      It was following fellowships at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1981)
and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution (1981-
1982) that she joined the faculty at Georgetown. 

      Prior to her work as an informal advisor to the Clinton/Gore campaign, Ms. Albright
served in senior foreign policy positions in both the Mondale/Ferraro and Dukakis/Bentsen
campaigns.

      She is a member of a number of professional organizations including the Council on
Foreign Relations and the American Political Science Association and she currently sits on the
boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Media Fund, the Atlantic
Council of the United States, and the Black Student Fund.

      Her writings include Poland, the Role of the Press in Political Change (1983) and The
Role of the Press in Political Change:  Czechoslovakia 1968 (Ph.D. Dissertation) (1976).


NAME:                                  William J. Crowe, Jr.

ADMINISTRATION POST:                   Chair, President's Foreign
                                       Intelligence Advisory Board

EDUCATION:                             University of Oklahoma
                                       U.S. Naval Academy (1947)                    

      Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. (USN Ret.) is the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.

      In the 1960's and early '70's, Crowe served in policy positions on both the Secretary of
Defense and Navy staffs.  He was the deputy director of an inter-agency Micronesian Status
Negotiations Team and he was the senior adviser to the South Vietnamese Navy Riverine Force
in the Mekong Delta.  After promotion to flag rank, he became the Commander of the U.S.
Middle East Force in the Persian Gulf, based in Bahrain.

      Admiral Crowe returned to Washington in 1977 as the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
for Plans, Policy and Operations.  In 1980, he was promoted to 4-star rank and assigned as the
Commander in Chief of NATO forces in Southern Europe, headquartered in Naples, Italy.  He
was concurrently the Commander in Chief of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.

      In 1983, Admiral Crowe was transferred to Hawaii as Commander in Chief of the U.S.
Pacific Command, the largest geographical command in the American military structure.  In
1985, President Reagan named him the 11th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position
he held for four years until his retirement in October 1989.

      Admiral Crowe is currently a Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies in Washington.  He is the University Professor of Geopolitics at the University of
Oklahoma and speaks extensively on military and national security issues to audiences
throughout the country.


NAME:                                 CONGRESSMAN LES ASPIN

SECRETARY-DESIGNATE FOR:               DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

EDUCATION:                             B.A., Yale University
                                       M.Phil., Oxford University
                                       PhD, M.I.T. 


      A respected defense intellectual who served in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations,
Congressman Les Aspin has been Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee since
1985.

      A Milwaukee, WI native, Aspin began his career on the staff of his homestate's Senator
William Proxmire, before moving on to the Kennedy White House as an assistant to the
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.  In 1966-68 he served at the Pentagon under
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.  

      Following that, he returned home to Milwaukee to teach economics at Marquette
University.  In 1970, he was elected to Congress and appointed to the Armed Services
Committee, on which he quickly established himself as one of the House's leading experts on
defense issues.  

      Since his election as Chairman in 1985, Aspin has emerged as a leading voice on Defense
issues in the Congress and in the Democratic Party.  He has been frequently credited with
restoring prestige to his committee and with helping to establish a more mainstream Democratic
position on national security issues.

      Aspin's role was particularly noteworthy in the months leading up to the Persian Gulf
War.  He held numerous hearings on the situation and issued a series of white papers analyzing
their results.  His analysis helped to frame the debate and his leadership helped to forge a
consensus in support of the use of force.  According o the 1992 Almanac of American Politics,
"Aspin showed far better judgement of how the armed forces could perform in the Persian Gulf
than did most of the House and Senate Democrats.  This left him clearly a stronger figure in the
House, quite possibly the strongest figure on military issues in Congress."