[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 10 (Monday, March 15, 1993)]
[Page 378]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Announcement of Nomination for Eight Sub-Cabinet Posts

 March 8, 1993

    The President continued the process of filling the sub-Cabinet 
today, expressing his intent to nominate eight senior officials at the 
Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development 
and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Named today were:
    Michael Stegman, Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and 
      Research, Department of Housing and Urban Development
    Everett Ehrlich, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of 
      Commerce
    Eugene Moos, Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity 
      Programs, Department of Agriculture
    Richard Rominger, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
    Wardell Townsend, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Administration, 
      Department of Agriculture
    Francis Vacca, Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, 
      Department of Agriculture
    Victor Marrero, U.S. Representative to the Economic and Security 
      Council, United Nations
    Karl F. (Rick) Indefurth, U.S. Alternative for Special Political 
      Affairs, United Nations
    ``The people I am asking to serve in my administration today combine 
academic achievement with real world experience,'' said the President. 
``I am particularly pleased to be naming two family farmers to help run 
the Department of Agriculture.''

Note: Biographies of the nominees were attached to the press release.