SISISKY IS PROPOSED AS NAVY SECRETARY

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 8, 1993                   TAG: 9301080218
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO   
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short
SISISKY IS PROPOSED AS NAVY SECRETARY
Rep. Norman Sisisky, D-Petersburg, has been proposed to be the secretary of the Navy in President-elect Clinton's administration, according to a published report.
Sen. John Warner, R-Va. - a former Navy secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford - wrote Clinton last month to recommend Sisisky, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports in its editions today.
Warner also spoke Wednesday with Rep. Les Aspin, Clinton's choice for secretary of defense, about Sisisky, the Times-Dispatch said.
Sisisky told the newspaper he is not pursuing the post, but was not ruling it out, either.
In his Dec. 21 letter to Clinton, Warner called Sisisky a "colleague and trusted friend."
Sisisky "served briefly as an enlisted man in the Navy at the end of World War II and has been a true leader in maritime policy throughout his career on the House Armed Services Committee," Warner wrote.
Sisisky, who is starting his sixth House term this week, is 65.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB