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Posted by:	Office of the President-elect
Released:	December 22, 1992
Posted:		January 3, 1993


DEPARTMENT TITLE:                            State Department

SECRETARY DESIGNEE:                          Warren Christopher

DEPUTY SECRETARY DESIGNEE:                   Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.



      The State Department is the cabinet-level agency that advises
the president in the formulation and execution of American foreign
policy. Its primary objective is to promote the long-range security
and well-being of the United States.  The department maintains
embassies and consulates in almost all the nations of the world. 
It represents the United States in more than fifty international
organizations and more than 800 international conferences annually. 
Its duties also include negotiating treaties with foreign
governments, issuing passports to Americans and granting visas to
foreigners to visit the United States.

      Five regional bureaus are responsible for the various regions
of the world: the Bureaus of African Affairs; European Affairs;
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Inter-American affairs; and Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs.  These bureaus help devise policy
as well as supervise its implementation and are assisted by
"country desks" headed by some fifty country directors.  The
department also has eleven functional bureaus and offices.  They
are:

      *      Economic and Business Affairs
      *      Intelligence and Research
      *      International Organization Affairs
      *      Legal Adviser
      *      Public Affairs
      *      Consular Affairs
      *      Politico-Military Affairs
      *      Oceans and International Environment and Scientific
             Affairs
      *      Protocol
      *      Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
      *      Refugee Programs


                                                       December 22, 1992



                           STATEMENT OF WARREN CHRISTOPHER             

      Today I want to thank Governor Clinton for making a dream come
true.  In my law school days, I was inspired to public service by
the examples of General George Marshall and Dean Acheson, but it
was beyond imagining that I would someday be asked to serve in the
office they held.
             
      Marshall and Acheson were present at the creation of the cold
war era.  Then we were being challenged by a formidable adversary,
and an alien ideology.  America measured its success by how well it
contained Soviet expansion and halted the spread of communism. 
             
      Today we face a new and more complicated era.  As Governor
Clinton said, we are "the inheritors of a new world."
      
      That world is still a dangerous place.  While the risk of
nuclear war has diminished, the new era has produced a new set of
dangers -- ethnic and religious conflicts threaten to ignite
widespread hostilities in Central and Eastern Europe; weapons of
mass destruction may reach the hands of untested and unstable
powers; new threats spring from old rivalries in the Middle East,
Europe and Asia. At the same time, we face a world where borders
matter less and less; a world that demands we join other nations to
face challenges that range from overpopulation to AIDS to the very
destruction of our planet's life support system.

      In this new era, the Clinton/Gore Administration will be
confronted again and again by whether and how to use U.S. power and
U.S. resources.  We will need bold new thinking to guide us in this
new era.  In contrast to the well-understood goals of the Cold War
era, it will be difficult to measure success as we deal with these
new challenges.  No doubt our surest test will be the well being of
the American people and their unfailing concern for others.

      In confronting these challenges we must remain cognizant that
a great power requires not only military might but a powerful
economy at home -- an economy prepared for global competition. In
today's world, that means that foreign policy and domestic policy
must be addressed simultaneously, not sequentially -- or else
neither will be successful for very long.

      Every four years the voters have an opportunity to reset our
course in foreign policy.  This year they embraced Governor
Clinton's concept that the strength of our economy is the
foundation of our foreign policy, that our force structure needs to
be revamped, and that democracy must be promoted on a world-wide
basis.  But his administration will pursue these goals with an
appreciation of history, both recent and ancient.
      American foreign policy is a continuum.  It is at its best
when it reflects a bipartisan consensus as with the Marshall Plan
or the quest for arms control.  Politics may not stop at the
water's edge but its intensity should yield to the national
interest.  Nothing could be more wasteful than for a new
administration to abandon constructive initiatives like the Middle
East peace talks or relief efforts in Somalia.

             Last February, at a time of uncertainty in the campaign,
I introduced Governor Clinton by saying he had the kind of
character that is essential for a President.  That judgment, guided
then more by intuition than by knowledge, has been confirmed one
hundred fold as he asked me to help him in the process of selecting
his Vice President and now his Cabinet. I am honored to serve with
the national security team he has chosen, and I am particularly
pleased that Cliff Wharton, a great American, and I will be working
together at State.  I hope I can help President-elect Clinton
achieve the success that his talents and ideals warrant.

             If I may close on a personal note -- I am grateful to
many, but most of all to my wife Marie for her willingness, one day
after our 36th anniversary, to leave our beloved California and
join me in yet another adventure.

             In 1981, when all 52 hostages came out of Iran alive and
relatively well, I was so thankful that I resolved not to impose
again by asking for divine assistance in my national endeavors. 
Evidently God had other plans.  So I humbly ask for the strength
and vision to carry out the new task that Governor Clinton has so
generously given me.



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).

      Mr. Christopher is married to the former Marie Wyllis.  They
have three children: Scott, Thomas and Kristen.  Mr. Christopher
also has a daughter, Lynn.



                      STATEMENT OF DR. CLIFTON R. WHARTON, JR.
                         DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE-DESIGNEE


      I am privileged to be asked to join President-elect Clinton
and his designated Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, in their
determined efforts to form a foreign policy that is responsive to
world needs for peace and progress as well as guaranteeing the
strength of the United States.

      President-elect Clinton has been given an unprecedented
opportunity to forge a new foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. 
As the child of a career foreign service officer, I understand what
this opportunity means for our country and for the world. I hope
that my experience in foreign economic development, agriculture,
and international education will help to define that mission.  We
have a formidable challenge ahead of us.  I look forward to working
with Secretary of State-designee Christopher -- and with the
President-elect -- in meeting this challenge during the months and
years ahead.



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.






DEPARTMENT TITLE:                            National Security Council

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR:                   Anthony Lake

DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR:            Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger



      The National Security Advisor is director of the National Security Council, the major
advising body to the president on matters of domestic, foreign and military policy as they relate
to national security.
      On the Council are the President, Vice President, secretaries of state and defense and
others. Formed to coordinate policy and intelligence-gathering efforts after the United States
emerged as a superpower at the end of World War II, the NSC oversees the president's Situation
Room, assesses risks to national security and makes recommendations on actions to be taken in
time of emergency. 
      The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff serves as the military advisor to the Council
and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency serves as its intelligence advisor. The
president is Council chairman. Both the CIA and National Security Agency are attached to the
Council.
      The NSC was formed under the National Security Act of 1947, but since that time its
role has expanded to the point that today the National Security Advisor is one of the most
important counselors to the president on security matters. 
      The advisor is appointed by the President and does not require Senate approval.   



(Source: The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary)


                                     -30-30-30-


                              STATEMENT OF ANTHONY LAKE
                              NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR


      This is what I am grateful for:

      For the opportunity to serve this President in such exciting times.  I share the confidence
in him -- the great sense of hope -- that so many millions of Americans have expressed.  

      For the opportunity also to work with the Vice President and the team of skilled
colleagues here today.

      For the chance to continue to work with my Deputy, Sandy Berger, as we did during the
campaign.

      And for a family that encouraged me to do this.

      And this is what I look forward to:

      To helping this President define American national security policy in an extraordinary
new world of turbulent dangers and enormous opportunity.  Our daily headlines suggest that not
since 1968 has a new Administration faced more difficult foreign problems.  But I am convinced
that out of these nettles we can pluck progress and greater security.

      I look forward to making sure, as best I can, that the President gets the wide array of
alternatives, the concise information, and the broad range of advice that he requires -- and that
his decisions are carried out with dispatch.

      And I hope to see a year from now, and beyond, a group of senior national security
officials who are as collegial and amicable as they are today.

      There is an immense amount of work to be done.I cannot wait.

                                     -30-30-30-

                                         

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).

He is married and has three children.


                                     -30-30-30-


                        STATEMENT OF SAMUEL R. "SANDY" BERGER
                          DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR

      Over the past year, I have had the sometimes exhausting privilege of travelling across
America with Governor Clinton and Senator Gore as they campaigned for the Presidency.  I
have seen the faces of Americans change from cynicism to hope . . . from serious doubt to
genuine excitement about the possibilities of the future.

      That is where foreign policy begins -- with the interests, the aspirations and the values
of the American people.

      I firmly believe that our nation this year has elected two leaders -- Bill Clinton and Al
Gore -- who will summon the very best that is in all of us as Americans . . . who will strengthen
America, at home and abroad.

      I am grateful for the opportunity to help them achieve their vision for America . . . to
serve as Deputy to my friend Tony Lake . . . and to be a part of the team of people on this
platform for whom I have such great respect.   Thank you.


                                     -30-30-30-



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.


                                     -30-30-30-


DEPARTMENT TITLE:               Central Intelligence Agency


DIRECTOR DESIGNEE:              James Woolsey




      Established under the National Security Act of 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency
collects and analyzes foreign intelligence and carries out clandestine operations abroad. With the
information it gathers, the CIA makes national security recommendations to the National
Security Council and the President. While the CIA is charged with worldwide intelligence
gathering and counterintelligence activities, it is prohibited from carrying out espionage activities
within the United States.  
      The CIA is a secret independent agency with an undisclosed budget and is not subject to
traditional congressional expenditure audits. The CIA Director, appointed by the President with
Senate approval, is a member of the Cabinet.
      


(Source: The Presidential-Congressional Political Dictionary)


                                     -30-30-30-




                            STATEMENT OF R. JAMES WOOLSEY
                     DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE-DESIGNATE

             Governor, I want to thank you for the confidence you have shown in me by
indicating your attention to nominate me to be Director of Central Intelligence,.

             The problem posed by one enemy with a world-wide reach has gone with the end
of the cold war.  But the problems posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
terrorisim, drugs, ethnic and national hatreds, ecological damage, and tough economic
competition all give American intelligence a full agenda.  In a number of ways it is a more
complex and difficult agenda even than that which existed before.  We have to do some things
differently.

             If confirmed, I will work hard with you and the rest of your foreign policy team,
with the professionals in the intelligence community, and with the Congress to ensure that we
meet these new challenges.

                                     -30-30-30-


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)

      He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey.  They have three children: Robert, Daniel and
Benjamin.



                         STATEMENT OF MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT
                                          

President-elect Clinton, Vice President-elect Gore, thank you so very much for offering me the
position of the United States ambassador to the United Nations.


During the campaign Governor Clinton made quite clear that he understood the significance of
winning the Presidency in 1992.  It would be his duty to fashion the role the United States would
take in the international community into the 21st century.


As a tough-minded internationalist, he has spoken of the need to work with other countries and
international organizations in a search for peace and security with the United States not as
policeman but the first among equals in a partnership, setting the course and sharing the burden. 
When we spoke about this position, he said he wanted to see the United Nations not only as
peacekeeper but also as peacemaker; not only helping to resolve disputes but also preventing
them.

It would be an honor for any American to represent the United States at the United Nations
when the President says he will support a policy that will make a difference.  

It is a special personal honor for this American to be asked to serve.  I was born in
Czechoslovakia and came to this country with my family in 1948 after the Communist coup. 
My father, Joseph Korbel, was asked to represent his country as chairman of a special United
Nations commission.  
When he completed his work, he asked the United States government for political asylum.  As
a result of the generous spirit of the American people, our family had the privilege of growing
up as free Americans.  You can, therefore, understand how proud I will be to sit at the United
Nations behind the nameplate of the United States of America.  

My daughters Anne, Alice, and Katie have been with me through bad times and good times. 
Today, has got to be the best.  I want to thank them for moving heaven and earth to get here
with their husbands, Jeff and Greg.

Governor Clinton, thank you very much for letting me help to make a difference.


                                     -30-30-30-


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).

                                    


                                       Title 3
                                    The President
                   President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

                      Executive Order 12331 of October 20, 1981

                                     46 FR 51705

                                  October 22, 1981

TEXT -1:  By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes
of the United States of America, and in order to enhance the security of the United States by
improving the quality and effectiveness of intelligence available to the United States, it is
ordered as follows:

Sec. 1. - There is hereby established within the White House Office, Executive Office of the
President, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (the "Board").  Members of the
Board shall serve at the pleasure of the President and shall be appointed by the President from
among trustworthy and distinguished citizens outside the Government who are qualified on the
basis of achievement, experience and independence.  The President shall designate a Chairman
and Vice Chairman from among the members.  The Board shall utilize full-time staff and
consultants as authorized by the President.  Such staff shall be headed by an Executive Director,
appointed by the President.

Sec. 2.  The Board shall assess the quality, quantity and adequacy of intelligence collection, of
analysis and estimates, of counterintelligence, and other intelligence activities.  The Board shall
have the authority to continually review the performance of all agencies of the Government that
are engaged in the collection, evaluation, or production of intelligence or the execution of
intelligence policy.  The Board shall further be authorized to assess the adequacy of
management, personnel and organization in the intelligence agencies.

Sec. 3.  The Board shall report directly to the President and advise him concerning the
objectives, conduct, management, and coordination of the various activities of the agencies of
the intelligence community.  The Board shall report periodically, but at least semi-annually,
concerning findings and appraisals and shall make appropriate recommendations for actions to
improve and enhance the performance of the intelligence efforts of the United States.

Sec. 4  The Board shall receive, consider, and take appropriate action with respect to matters,
identified to the Board by the Director of Central Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency,
                                        -2- 

or other Government agencies engaged in intelligence or related activities, in which the support
of the Board will further the effectiveness of the national intelligence effort.  With respect to
matters deemed appropriate by the President, the Board shall advise and make recommendations
to the Director of Central Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other Government
agencies engaged in intelligence and related activities, concerning ways to achieve increase
effectiveness in meeting national intelligence needs.

Sec. 5  The Board shall have access to the full extent permitted by applicable law to all
information necessary to carry out its duties in the possession of any agency of the Government. 
Information made available to the Board shall be given all necessary security protection in
accordance with applicable laws and regulations.  Each member of the Board, each member of
the Board's staff, and each of the Board's consultants shall execute an agreement never to reveal
any classified information obtained by virtue of his or her service with the Board except to the
President or to such persons as the President may designate.

Sec. 6  Members of the Board shall serve without compensation, but may receive transportation,
expense, and per diem allowances as authorized by law.  Staff and consultants to the Board shall
receive pay and allowances as authorized by the President.

/S/Ronald Reagan

THE WHITE HOUSE

October 20, 1981.

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                STATEMENT OF ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. CROWE JR., USN (RET.)


      I have been honored to serve my country in uniform for almost five decades and am
happy to continue that service as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board.

      During the presidential campaign, it was a privilege for me to advise Governor Clinton
on issues involving national security and foreign policy.  I look forward to continuing to advise
him as he assumes his great responsibilities as President of the United States. 


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.

      Admiral Crowe and his wife, Shirley, live in Alexandria, Virginia.



DEPARTMENT TITLE:                      DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SECRETARY DESIGNATE:                   Congressman Les Aspin


      The Department of Defense has primary responsibility for maintaining defenses capable
of deterring agression and protecting American interests around the world.  It coordinates
logistics and the general administration of the armed forces, supervises the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and awards military contracts.

      The Secretary of Defense oversees a department that is by far tghe largest in the federal
government.  Indeed, with over 1 million civilian employees and 2 million active duty uniformed
personnel, the DoD is the largest employer in the Western world.

      In addition to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, the Defense Department
includes the International Security Affairs Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the
Nathional Security Agency.  



                         STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN LES ASPIN
                           SECRETARY OF DEFENSE-DESIGNATE


      I'm honored to accept this nomination.  President-elect Clinton has provided us with a
new, broader vision of national security and prosperity for America in this new era, and I'm
very proud to have been selected as part of the team to realize that vision.

      I also want to say here this afternoon that it has been an honor to represent the people
of Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District for 22 years.  I hope I can count on their support in
this new role as I have in the past as a Member of Congress.

      The President-elect has also included two sets of big challenges with the nomination.

      The first set involves maintaining the superb quality of our forces and our high tech edge
as we go about the inevitable downsizing of our forces.  We know the men and women in
uniform today comprise the finest military force in the world.  And we know that the American
technological know-how we saw in the Gulf War will mean fewer casualties all around if and
when we must use force again.  As President-elect Clinton has repeatedly said, our high quality,
high technology force must be maintained.

      The second set of challenges involves meeting the demands of the new post-Cold War,
post-Soviet world.  In this new world, the definition of national security has changed and
broadened.  It not only included threats from regional powers, it includes the new nuclear danger
of proliferation and the possibility of the reversal for reforms in the former Soviet world with
untold consequences.  It even includes threats from regional powers, it includes the reversal of
reforms in the former Soviet world with untold consequences.  It even includes economics.  The
President-elect has set us the overall task of reviving our economic security at home.  The
Defense Department can contribute there, too.

      There are, indeed, enormous challenges, but they are commensurate with President-elect
Clinton's vision.  The Clinton team faces a big job with a big payoff for America and I'm proud
to be part of it.  Thank you.

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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."

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