For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 8, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Richard Lee Armitage, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of State, vice Strobe Talbott.

John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, vice John David Holum, resigned.

Grant S. Green, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Under Secretary of State (Management), vice Bonnie R. Cohen.

Marc Isaiah Grossman, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be an Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs), vice Thomas R. Pickering.

William Howard Taft, IV, of Virginia, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State, vice David Andrews.

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