[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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