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Article: Remarks announcing the appointment of Bill Lann Lee as acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and an exchange with reporters. (Pres Bill Clinton)(Transcript)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- December 15, 1997
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December 15, 1997
The President. I want to thank the Attorney General for her support. And again, I want to join the Vice President and the Attorney General in thanking Isabelle Katz Pinzler for the great job she has done as Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. I wish her well as she returns to private life, to her husband, her son and daughter in New York City.
Today it is with a great deal of pride that I name Bill Lann Lee to the post of Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and Counselor to the Attorney General for Civil Rights Enforcement. From this day forward, he will be America's top civil rights enforcer, serving at the ...