The President today announced his intention to nominate John J. O'Donnell to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor (Legislative Affairs). He would succeed Donald Elisburg.
Since 1979 he has been serving as vice president of the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO. He has been with Eastern Airlines, Inc., since 1956 and is currently on leave of absence. He was president of the Air Line Pilots Association in 1971-1982. Captain O'Donnell served in the United States Navy (1942-1946) and the United States Air Force (1950-1951). He was with the United States Air Force Cambridge Research Facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952-1956.
He is married and resides in Washington, D.C. He was born January 14, 1925, in Lowell, Mass.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of John J. O'Donnell To Be an Assistant Secretary of Labor Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262144