    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 51 (Monday, December 27, 1999)]
    [Page 2665]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Statement on the Death of Tom Henderson

    December 23, 1999

        Hillary and I were deeply saddened to learn of the death of Tom
    Henderson, a member of my Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS and a senior
    staff person at the Environmental Protection Agency. Tom was a longtime
    friend to both of us and combined great intelligence with a sharp Texas
    wit. He was a strong and effective advocate for our efforts to combat
    AIDS, the disease that eventually took his life. We will miss Tom, as
    will members of the Council, his colleagues at the EPA and the White
    House, and the hundreds of people around the country who were blessed to
    know him as a friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his partner
    Michael, his daughter Melissa, and all of those like us who grieve his
    loss.