J. Daniel Howard Carlucci and his deputy, General Colin Powell. Howard focussed on arms control issues and remained through the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in January 1988. He also dealt with many issues associated with the Iran–Contra affair. On December 21, 1987, President Reagan nominated Howard to serve as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) and Howard would hold this post from February 1988 through May 1989. He worked for Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci and dealt with the aftermath of the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S.S. "Vincennes" and the explosion of a gun mount
Richard S. Carnell Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 1987 and was then the Committee's Senior Counsel 1989-1993. In 1993, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated Carnell to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions. He held that office until 1999. Since leaving government service, Carnell has been a law professor at the Fordham University School of Law. Richard S. Carnell Richard Scott Carnell is a United States lawyer who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions from 1993 to 1999. Richard S. Carnell was educated at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1975. He