[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 42 (Monday, October 25, 1993)]
[Page 2106]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Nomination for an Assistant Secretary of Commerce

 October 18, 1993

    The President announced today that he intends to nominate GTE 
executive Graham R. Mitchell to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Technology Policy.
    ``I have called on the Commerce Department to take the lead in 
giving our country the technological capability to win in a competitive 
world marketplace,'' said the President. ``With his years of high-tech 
management experience, Graham Mitchell has the know-how that effort 
requires.''

Note: A biography of the nominee was made available by the Office of the 
Press Secretary.