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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Tue May 11 20:52:46 1993
Date: Tue, 11 May 1993 20:41-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President Names Officials at Transportation & Interior
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 11, 1993
PRESIDENT NAMES OFFICIALS AT TRANSPORTATION, INTERIOR
(Washington, DC) President Clinton named a total of four
officials at the Departments of Transportation and the Interior
today. He expressed his intention to nominate Frank Kruesi to be
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy
and Ada Deer to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs. The President also approved the appointment of Richard
Mintz to be the Director of Transportation's Office of Public
Affairs, and Patricia Beneke to be Associate Solicitor for Energy
and Resources at Interior.
"I am gratified that these individuals will be joining me in
Washington," said the President. "Frank Kruesi has been an
innovative and successful policy advisor to Mayor Daley. Ada
Deer has been a powerful and eloquent voice for changing national
Indian policy. Both will be valuable parts of this
Administration, as will Richard Mintz and Patricia Beneke."
Frank Kruesi is currently the Chief Policy Officer in the
Administration of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. In that role he
has been involved in a number of transportation issues, including
the . He has worked for Daley since 1977 when Daley was a member
of the Illinois State Senate. He has also been a Lecturer in
Political Science at Loyola University, DePaul University, and
Rosary College. He holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an
M.A. from the University of Chicago.
Ada Deer, the first woman Chair of the Menominee people, the
first Menominee to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, the
first Menominee to receive a master's degree, and the first
American Indian to receive a master's degree from the Columbia
University School of Social Work, is a Senior Lecturer in the
School of Social Work and the American Indian Studies Program at
the University of Wisconsin. In 1992, she was the Democratic
nominee for Congress from Wisconsin's 2nd District. She has been
For more than two decades, she has been a leader in the effort to
gain restoration of tribal treaty rights. Deer, who lives in
Madison, WI, holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, and
M.S.W. from Columbia University, and was a Fellow at the Harvard
Institute of Politics.
(more)
May 11, 1993
page two
Richard Mintz served earlier this year as the Director of
Communications for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, after
having been Deputy Director of the California Clinton/Gore
campaign, and Staff Director to Hillary Rodham Clinton during the
1992 Presidential primaries. Before joining the Clinton
campaign, he was Vice President of the public affairs firm of
Ogilvy Adams & Reinhart from 1988-91. He had previously been
Media Director of the National Abortion Rights Action League,
Press Secretary to the Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition,
and an Associate Producer for CBS News' Election & Survey Unit.
Mintz holds a B.A. from Union College.
Patricia Beneke has been Senior Counsel to the Senate
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources since 1987, with broad
responsibilities for energy policy and other issues. She was the
Committee's Minority Counsel in 1985-86. Prior to that, she was
a Litigation Associate with a private law firm, and an attorney
with the Departments of Justice and Agriculture. Beneke is a
graduate of Iowa State University and Harvard Law School.
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