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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.
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     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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