[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.