Comings and Goings: Controlling OMB

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President Clinton has announced he will likely nominate Joshua Gotbaum to serve as controller at the Office of Management and Budget. Gotbaum will also continue to serve as executive associate director at OMB. As controller, Gotbaum will be in charge of the Office of Federal Financial Management, which coordinates the financial management activities of the federal government.

Elizabeth Echols, a Commerce Department senior advisor on Internet and e-commerce issues, has been tapped to manage the new Electronic Commerce Working Group. As executive director of the group, Echols will coordinate the administration's electronic commerce policy among federal agencies, including deploying of high-speed Internet services, crafting online consumer protections and creating a global e-commerce framework.

Cynthia M. Koch has been named the new director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y. The Roosevelt Library is one of ten presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Koch previously served as associate director of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania.

Also at NARA, David M. Weinberg has signed on as program manager for the new Reimbursable Records Center Services Program. The program was developed at the suggestion of the Office of Management and Budget several years ago. The new program, effective Oct. 1, will fund NARA's records center operations through reimbursable charges to agencies using records center services. Weinberg will start his new job Aug. 30.

President Clinton has nominated Army Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz to be commander-in-chief of the United Nations Command and commander of U.S. Forces Korea, in Seoul, Korea. Schwartz is currently serving as commanding general at U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort McPherson, Ga.

President Clinton has announced he will nominate Roger Ferguson to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve. Ferguson currently is a member of the Fed's Board of Governors, but if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the first African-American to serve as vice chairman. He formerly was a partner at McKinsey & Co., a consulting firm, where he specialized in information technology system management. Clinton also announced he would nominate Carol Parry, a former Chase Manhattan Bank executive, to fill a vacant slot on the Fed's board.

John Marshall is the White House choice to be the next head of the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency of the Justice Department. Marshall, the son of the first black Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall, would succeed the outgoing director, Eduardo Gonzales.

Johnnie E. Frazier has been sworn in as inspector general at the Commerce Department. Frazier was confirmed by the Senate as the agency's fourth inspector general on July 15. He was sworn in by Commerce Secretary William M. Daley on July 20.