The President announced today his intention to nominate William Schneider, Jr., to be Under Secretary of State for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs. He will succeed James L. Buckley.
Dr. Schneider is presently the Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs for the Office of Management and Budget. Dr. Schneider is an economist and defense analyst and was formerly a staff associate of the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977). Prior to joining the House of Representatives staff, he was a U.S. Senate staff member and a professional staff member of the Hudson Institute. At the Hudson Institute he contributed to studies on strategic forces, Soviet affairs, theater nuclear force operations, and arms control. Dr. Schneider is the author of several works on defense policy.
Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1968. He is a resident of Rockville Centre, N.Y., and was born November 20, 1941.
Ronald Reagan, Nomination of William Schneider, Jr., To Be an Under Secretary of State Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/246013