The President announced today that he intends to nominate John Dalton, an Annapolis graduate and former Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, to be Secretary of the Navy.
"Throughout his distinguished Navy career and his equally distinguished civilian career in has displayed true leadership ability," said the President. "I am proud that he has agreed to serve with me and confident that he will work with Secretary Aspin and the Navy to adjust to the new security realities that we face."
NOTE: A biography of the nominee was made public service and private industry, John Dalton available by the Office of the Press Secretary.
William J. Clinton, Nomination for Secretary of the Navy Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/219999