Appointment of Lloyd M. Taggart as a Member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to appoint Lloyd M. Taggart to be a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. He will succeed Sidney Brody.

Mr. Taggart is serving as president of the Taggart Trust in Las Vegas, Nev., and of Modelage, S.A., in Mesa, Ariz. Previously he was president of Great Films, Inc, in San Francisco, Calif., in 1973-1975. He is a member of the board of the Nevada Museum of Fine Art and of the Nevada Dance Theater.

He graduated from Brigham Young University (B.S., 1968). He is married, has six children, and resides in Las Vegas, Nev. He was born July 14, 1944, in Cody, Wyo.