From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU  Fri Jun 25 01:52:59 1993
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 01:40-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: President Names Ambassador to Mongolia  6.24.93

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary

                                                                  
For Immediate Release                             June 24, 1992

          PRESIDENT NAMES JOHNSON AMBASSADOR TO MONGOLIA

(Washington, DC)    President Clinton today announced his 
intention to nominate Donald Johnson, a career member of the 
Foreign Service, to be Ambassador to Mongolia.

     "Donald Johnson has served our country with distinction for 
almost two decades in the Foreign Service," said the President.  
"I am pleased to he will be taking this ambassadorial post."

     Johnson, a native of Richmond, CA, spent much of his 
childhood in Mexico, where his parents served as missionaries.  
He graduated from Lewis and Clark College in 1970, received a law 
degree in 1974 from the same institution, and has additional 
academic degrees from the University of Oklahoma, where he earned 
a Master of Public Administration and The George Washington 
University, where he received a LL.M. in Corporation Law.  He 
joined the Foreign Service in 1974 and has had assignments of 
increasing responsibility in Guatemala, the former USSR, China, 
Spain, Honduras, and the Department of State.  From 1990-91, he 
was on detail to the National Security Council at the White 
House.  He is married to Nelda Sabillon Johnson, and is 43 years 
old.

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