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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 11, 1999
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES THOMAS BAER, ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN AND RICHARD BEN-VENISTE
AS MEMBERS OF THE
NAZI WAR CRIMINAL RECORDS INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP
The President announced today his intent to appoint Thomas H. Baer, Elizabeth
Holtzman and Richard Ben-Veniste as members of the Nazi War Criminal Records
Interagency Working Group.
Mr. Thomas H. Baer, of Los Angeles, California, is a Partner of Steinhardt
Baer Pictures Company, a motion picture and television production and finance
company, and Dalrymple productions, a producer of Emmy and Ace Award winning TV
specials. Mr. Baer became President of Kings Road Productions in 1984.
previously, he was a partner in the New York law firm of Baer & MCGoldrick from
1966 to 1983, and an Assistant United
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Message Creation Date was at 11-JAN-1999 17:30:00
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 11, 1999
PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES THOMAS BAER, ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN AND RICHARD
BEN-VENISTE
AS MEMBERS OF THE
NAZI WAR CRIMINAL RECORDS INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP
The President announced today his intent to appoint Thomas H. Baer,
Elizabeth
Holtzman and Richard Ben-Veniste as members of the Nazi War Criminal
Records
Interagency Working Group.
Mr. Thomas H. Baer, of Los Angeles, California, is a Partner of Steinhardt
Baer Pictures Company, a motion picture and television production and
finance
company, and Dalrymple Productions, a producer of Emmy and Ace Award
winning TV
specials. Mr. Baer became President of Kings Road Productions in 1984.
Previously, he was a partner in the New York law firm of Baer & MCGoldrick
from
1966 to 1983, and an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern
District
of New York from 1961 to 1966. Mr. Baer received his B.A. from Tufts
University and his LL.B. from Yale University.
Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, of Brooklyn, New York, is currently
Counsel
with Herrick, Feinstein LLP in New York City. Previously, she served in
the
U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981, as District Attorney of
Kings
County (Brooklyn) from 1982 to 1990, and as Comptroller of the City of New
York
from 1990 to 1993. While serving in the House of Representatives,
Congresswoman Holtzman was a member of the House Budget Committee, the
House
Judiciary Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees
and
International Law. Among the legislation which she sponsored was the
Holtzman
Amendment authorizing the deportation of Nazi War Criminals. MS. Holtzman
has
also served as a Member of the Helsinki Watch Committee. She received her
A.B.
from Radcliffe College in 1962 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in
1965.
Mr. Richard Ben-Veniste, of Washington, DC, is a Member of the Washington
law
firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Previously, he was Assistant U.S.
Attorney,
Southern District, New York from 1968 to 1973, which included service as
Chief
of the Special Prosecution Section from 1971 to 1973. Mr. Ben-Veniste was
Chief of the Watergate Task Force, U.S. Department of Justice from 1973 to
1975
and Special Outside Counsel, Senate Committee on Government Operations from
1976 to 1977. He again returned to government service as Special Counsel
(Minority), Senate Whitewater Committee, from May 1995 to June 1996. Mr.
Ben-Veniste received an A.B. from Muhlenberg College in 1964, an LL.B. from
Columbia University in 1967, and an LL.M. from Northwestern University in
1968.
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The Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group was established,
with
bipartisan support, to locate, identify, inventory, recommend for
declassification, and make available to the public at the National
Archives and
Records Administration, all classified Nazi war criminal records of the
United
States. In addition to the public members named above, the President will
also
appoint individuals from government agencies, as he deems appropriate, to
effectively execute the mission of the Working Group.
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