    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [March 12, 1991]
    [Pages 251-252]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Appointment of Spencer E. Geissinger as Special Assistant to the
    President for Presidential Press Advance
    March 12, 1991

        The President today announced the appointment of Spencer E.
    Geissinger as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Press
    Advance at the White House in

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    Washington, DC.
        Since 1990 Mr. Geissinger has served as Deputy Director of
    Presidential Advance for Press. He has served as the executive director
    of ``Drug Use is Life Abuse,'' a nonprofit foundation in Orange County,
    CA, 1989-1990. Mr. Geissinger previously served in the Presidential
    Advance Office as a lead advance representative, January 1989 to June
    1989. He has also served on two Presidential inaugural committees, as
    director of the inaugural balls and the opening ceremony in 1989 and in
    the office of public liaison for business and veterans groups in 1985.
    He served at the George Bush for President campaign 1988 as a lead
    advance representative and as a coordinator of special projects in the
    Vice Presidential advance office, 1986-1987. Mr. Geissinger also served
    at the Department of Labor as a Special Assistant to the Secretary for
    Advance and Scheduling, 1985-1986, and as a Mississippi field
    representative for voter programs in the Reagan/Bush '84 campaign. He
    served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Congressional
    and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Agriculture, 1982-
    1984, and staff assistant on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on
    State, Justice, Commerce and the Judiciary, Office of Senator Paul
    Laxalt, January 1982 to July 1982.
        Mr. Geissinger attended the University of Nevada, Reno, studying
    agricultural economics. He is a native of California. He was born
    February 17, 1962. He is single and resides in Arlington, VA.