[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.