    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 31 (Monday, August 9, 1993)]
    [Pages 1555-1556]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Nominations for Commissioner of Social Security and Director of the
    National Institutes of Health

     August 3, 1993

        President Clinton announced his intention today to nominate Texas
    Woman's University president Shirley Chater to be the Commissioner of
    Social Security and Nobel laureate Harold Varmus to be the Director of
    the National Institutes of Health at the Department of Health and Human
    Services.
        ``It gives me great pleasure to announce these nominations today,''
    said the President. ``Shirley Chater is an accomplished administrator
    with a strong background in health care issues. I am convinced that she
    will do an outstanding job of running this enormous and enormously
    important Agency. Likewise, as one of the world's leading medical
    researchers, Harold Varmus will bring great strength and leadership to
    the National Institutes of Health.''

    Note: Biographies of the nominees were made available by the Office of
    the Press Secretary.

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