For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 18, 2001

Nominations Sent to the Senate

     Kathleen Burton Clarke, of Utah, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, vice Thomas A. Fry, III.

     W. Michael Cox, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, vice John Martin Manley, resigned.

     Dale Klein, of Texas, to be Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, vice Harold P. Smith, Jr., resigned.

     James David McGee, of Florida, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Swaziland.

     Samuel T. Mok, of Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Labor, vice Kenneth M. Bresnahan.

     William Schubert, of Texas, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, vice Clyde J. Hart, Jr.

     Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

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