[Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1992, Book I)]
[February 4, 1992]
[Page 200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]



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Appointment of Antonio Benedi as Special Assistant to the President and 
Deputy Director of Presidential Appointments and Scheduling

February 4, 1992
    The President has announced his intention to appoint Antonio Benedi 
to be Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of 
Presidential Appointments and Scheduling.
    From 1989 to the present, Mr. Benedi has served as the Deputy 
Director of the Office of Presidential Appointments and Scheduling. 
Prior to this, he served as Coordinator and then Director of Special 
Projects and Initiatives in the Office of the Vice President, Office of 
Advance, 1985-89. He also served as Special Assistant to the Assistant 
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the Department of 
Education, 1983-85. Mr. Benedi was the Special Assistant to the Director 
of ACTION, the Federal domestic volunteer agency, 1981-83. In 1980, he 
worked on the National Reagan-Bush Campaign Committee.
    Mr. Benedi graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, 
receiving a bachelor of arts degree in psychology. He was born August 5, 
1955, in Havana, Cuba. He left Cuba in 1960 for Honduras and moved with 
his family to Virginia in 1962. He is married to the former Maria T. 
Fernandez, has two sons, Tony and Jamie, and resides in Springfield, VA.