The President announced the appointment of Roger Kennedy as the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. Kennedy is currently the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
"There are few tasks more serious than the stewardship of our national parks," said the President. "With a record of public service dating back to Word War II, Roger Kennedy is more than up to the job of safeguarding these precious resources."
NOTE: A biography of the appointee was made available by the Office of the Press Secretary.
William J. Clinton, Appointment for Director of the National Park Service Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/219771