National Council on the Handicapped Nomination of Howard A. Rusk To Be a Member and Designation as Chairman.

The President today announced his intention to nominate Howard A. Rusk as a member of the National Council on the Handicapped and to designate him as Chairman on confirmation.

Rusk, 78, has been a professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University School of Medicine since 1946. He has served as a consultant on rehabilitation to the United Nations Secretariat and to the city of New York. He is the author of several books and has received numerous awards and honors.

The National Council on the Handicapped was established in November 1978 by Public Law 95-602 to establish general policies regarding Federal activities affecting the handicapped and review the activities of the Rehabilitation Services Administration and the National Institute of Handicapped Research.