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Digitized from Box 29 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 29, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Nelson
Smith, of Toledo, Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense. His
area of responsibility will be Health Affairs. He will succeed James R.
Cowan who resigned effective March 1, 1976. Dr. Smith is in the practice
of anesthesiology.
Born on April 2, 1920, in Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Smith received his B. S.
degree from the United States Military Academy in 1943 and his M. S.
degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945. He was
awarded his M. D. from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine
in 1952. He served in the United States Air Force from 1943 to 1948.
Dr. Smith is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio
State Medical Association, the American Society of Anesthesiologists and
was Pre sident of the Ohio State Medical Association during 1969 to 1970.
Dr. Smith resides in Toledo, Ohio.
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