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We have conducted a spectroscopic analysis of the far ultraviolet archivalspectra of four symbiotic variables, EG And, AE Ara, CQ Dra and RW Hya. RW Hyaand EG And have never had a recorded outburst while CQ Dra and AE Ara haveoutburst histories. We analyze these systems while they are in quiescence inorder to help reveal the physical properties of their hot components viacomparisons of the observations with optically thick accretion disk models andNLTE model white dwarf photospheres. We have extended the wavelength coveragedown to the Lyman Limit with FUSE spectra. We find that the hot component in RWHya is a low mass white dwarf with a surface temperature of 160,000K. Were-examine whether or not the symbiotic system CQ Dra is a triple system with ared giant transferring matter to a hot component made up of a cataclysmicvariable in which the white dwarf has a surface temperature as low as$\sim$20,000K. The very small size of the hot component contributing to theshortest wavelengths of the FUSE spectrum of CQ Dra agrees with an opticallythick and geometrically thin ($\sim$4\% of the WD surface) hot ($\sim120,000$K) boundary layer. Our analysis of EG And reveals that its hotcomponent is a hot, bare, low mass white dwarf with a surface temperature of80-95,000K, with a surface gravity $\log(g)= 7.5$. For AE Ara, we also findthat a low gravity ($\log(g) \sim 6$) hot ($T \sim 130,000$K) WD accounts forthe hot component.

FUSE Spectroscopy of the Accreting Hot Components in Symbiotic Variables