The Nation - News from March 20, 1986
President Reagan said he intends to nominate Dorcas R. Hardy, assistant health and human services secretary, to be commissioner of Social Security. If confirmed by the Senate, Hardy, 39, a former health services official at USC, would succeed John A. Svahn as head of the pension system. Hardy was California’s assistant secretary for health under then-Gov. Reagan in 1973-74.
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