    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [June 21, 1991]
    [Page 709]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Frank G. Wisner To Be United States Ambassador to the
    Philippines
    June 21, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Frank G.
    Wisner, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of the
    Philippines. He would succeed Nicholas Platt.
        Since 1986 Ambassador Wisner has served as U.S. Ambassador to the
    Arab Republic of Egypt. Prior to this, Ambassador Wisner served as
    Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 1982-1986; and
    as Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, 1979-1982; he was Deputy
    Executive Secretary of the Department of State, 1977-1979; Director of
    the Office of Southern African Affairs, 1976; and Special Assistant to
    the Under Secretary of State, 1975-1976. He also served as Director of
    the Office of Plans and Management in the Bureau of Public Affairs,
    1974-1975; as the First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka,
    Bangladesh, 1973-1974; as the First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in
    Tunis, Tunisia, 1971-1973; and as the officer in charge of Tunisian
    affairs at the Department of State, 1969-1971; and at the Agency for
    International Development in Vietnam, 1964-1969. Ambassador Wisner
    entered the Foreign Service in 1961.
        Ambassador Wisner graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1961).
    He was born July 2, 1938, in New York, NY. Ambassador Wisner is married
    and has four children.