    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [April 19, 1991]
    [Pages 408-409]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Appointment of Gary L. Foster as Special Assistant to the President and
    Deputy Press Secretary
    April 19, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to appoint Gary L.
    Foster to be Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press
    Secretary at the White House. He would succeed Stephen T. Hart.
        Since October 1990 Mr. Foster has served as Director of Public
    Affairs at the Department of Commerce. Prior to this, he was director of
    communications for the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations,

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    1990, and director of special events for the Eisenhower Centennial
    Foundation, 1989. From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Foster served as Deputy
    Director of the Office of Presidential Advance for Press at the White
    House. He was director of inaugural balls in the Operations Division of
    the Committee for the 50th American Presidential Inaugural, 1985. In
    1984, he served as a press advance representative for Reagan-Bush '84.
        Mr. Foster graduated from the University of Texas, Austin (B.S.,
    1981). He was born March 21, 1959, in Fort Worth, TX, and currently
    resides in Washington, DC.