THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 1, 1993 PRESIDENT NAMES WALKER, PIRIE TO INSTALLATIONS POSTS AT PENTAGON President Clinton announced today that he intends to nominate Robert M. (Mike) Walker to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics, and Environment, and Robert B. Pirie, Jr. to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment. "With their long years of experience in military policy, Mike Walker and Robert Pirie are well qualified for these positions," said the President. "I am looking forward to their service at the Pentagon." Robert M. (Mike) Walker is the staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Military Construction since 1987, and was previously the subcommittee's minority clerk for six years. He has also served as a professional staff member of the Senate Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, and as a legislative assistant to Senator Jim Sasser of Tennessee. Before joining Sasser's staff, he was an assistant to U.S. Rep. Joe L. Evins. Walker attended the University of Tennessee, and is an Army National Guard veteran. He is a resident of Charles Town, West Virginia. Robert B. Pirie, Jr. has over thirty years experience in defense- related work in the armed forces, the civil service and in industry. He served twenty years as a naval officer, culminating his service with three years in command of the nuclear attack submarine USS Skipjack. In recent years, he has served as President of the Essex Corporation, Director of the Chief of Naval Operations' Study Group at the U.S. Naval War College, and Vice President of the Center for Naval Analyses, his current position. Pirie holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a B.A. and M.A. from the Final Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife, the former Joan Adams. They have three children. # # #