Nomination of Martin Anderson To Be a Member of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Martin Anderson to be a member of the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He would succeed Shirley N. Pettis.

He joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he taught until 1968. During 1968 he was the director of research of the Nixon Presidential campaign and later served as a Special Assistant to the President until March 1971, when he went to the Hoover Institution. Since 1971 Mr. Anderson has been a senior fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University. He was on leave from Stanford and served as an Assistant to the President for Policy Development, the White House, 1981-1982; a senior adviser in the Reagan-Bush campaign of 1980; and in the office of the President-elect.

Mr. Anderson graduated from Dartmouth College (A.B., 1957), Thayer School of Engineering and Amos Tuck School of Business (M.S.), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1962). Mr. Anderson is married and currently resides in Portola Valley, CA. He was born on August 5, 1936, in Lowell, MA.