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The White House Briefing Room


April 13, 1999

PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ROBERT J. EINHORN AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR NONPROLIFERATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

                              THE WHITE HOUSE
                       Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release                                              April
13, 1999
           PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES ROBERT J. EINHORN AS ASSISTANT
            SECRETARY FOR NONPROLIFERATION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
     President Clinton today announced his intention to nominate Robert J.
Einhorn to be Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation at the Department of
State.
     Mr. Einhorn, of the District of Columbia, currently serves as the
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation in the Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs at the Department of State, where he is
responsible for areas such as nuclear, chemical, biological and missile
nonproliferation, as well as regional nonproliferation issues.  Mr. Einhorn
has also been a Senior Advisor in the Department?s Policy Planning Staff,
dealing with similar security and arms control matters.   He has worked in
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency on such topics as strategic
arms reductions, nuclear testing limits and chemical and biological weapons
constraints.  In addition to his public service, Mr. Einhorn has written a
number of pieces on arms control issues and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations as well as the International Institute of Strategic
Studies.
     Mr. Einhorn received his B.A. in Government from Cornell University
and his M.P.A. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
     The Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation at the Department of
State assists the Secretary and reports to the Under Secretary for Arms
Control and International Security Affairs in the planning and execution of
the Department?s responsibilities in the areas of nonproliferation and
report controls.
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