    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [January 10, 1991]
    [Page 27]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Jon D. Glassman To Be United States Ambassador to Paraguay
    January 10, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Jon David
    Glassman, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary
    and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of
    Paraguay. He would succeed Timothy Lathrop Towell.
        Since 1990 Dr. Glassman has served as Assistant to the Vice
    President at the White House in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he served
    as Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs,
    1989-1990. Dr. Glassman has served as Charge d'Affaires for the U.S.
    Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, 1987-1989. In addition, he served at the
    Department of State in several capacities: country director for
    Australia and New Zealand affairs, 1984-1986; senior adviser to the
    President's Special Representative for Central American Negotiations,
    1983-1984; senior member of the Policy Planning Staff for Latin America
    and East Asia, 1981-1983; first secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico
    City, 1979-1981; deputy chief for U.S. interests section in Havana,
    Cuba, 1977-1979; international relations officer for the Soviet desk at
    the Department of State, 1975-1977; and as an international relations
    officer for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1974-1975. Dr.
    Glassman also served as a fellow for the Council on Foreign Relations at
    Harvard University, 1973-1974; second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in
    Moscow, 1971-1973; and as third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid,
    1968-1970.
        Dr. Glassman graduated from the University of Southern California
    (B.F.S., 1965) and Columbia University (M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1976). He was
    born January 8, 1944, in New York, NY. Dr. Glassman is married, has two
    children, and resides in Washington, DC.