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[[underlined]] Report of the National Portrait Gallery Commission [[/underlined]]

Mr. Ripley noted that the members of the National Portrait Gallery Commission respectfully recommended the reappointment of Mr. Andrew Oliver as a Commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery.  Mr. Oliver, who is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Library of the Boston Athenaeum, felt obliged to resign from the Commission in November, 1979, in order to avoid any possible conflict of interest in the then pending negotiations over the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington.  The negotiations now being completed, the members of the Commission have enthusiastically and unanimously endorsed his reappointment, and Mr. Oliver felt he is free to resume his membership.
 
Satisfied that there could be no remaining conflict of interest, the Regents adopted the following resolution:

VOTED that the Board of Regents reappoints to the Commission of the National Portrait Gallery Mr. Andrew Oliver to fill the three years remaining in his unexpired term.