Appointment of David McLean Walters as a Commissioner of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint David McLean Walters to be a Commissioner of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission. He will succeed James H. Rowe, Jr.

He is chairman and president of the Miami Children's Fund in Coral Gables, FL. Mr. Walters is also currently a fellow at Boston University Medical School.

He graduated from the Cleveland School of Law (B.A., LL.B.) and the University of Miami Law School (J.D., 1950). He is of counsel to the firm of Walters, Costanzo, Miller, Russell, Heller and Dittmar. In 1977-1978 he was the Presidential representative to the Vatican and Holy See with the rank of Ambassador.

He has one child and resides in Miami, FL. He was born April 4, 1917, in Cleveland, OH.