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Nomination of Michael A. McManus, Jr., To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation

August 29, 1985

The President today announced his intention to nominate Michael A. McManus, Jr., to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation until the date of the annual meeting of the Corporation in 1987. He replaces Robert M. Garrick, whose term has expired.

Since March 1985, Mr. McManus has been executive vice president of MacAndrews & Forbes Group, Inc., in New York, NY. Previously he served as Assistant to the President and Deputy to the Chief of Staff at the White House in 1982-1985. From 1977 to 1982, he was corporate counsel and general counsel at Pfizer, Inc. He served as an assistant to Secretary Elliot Richardson at the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1975-1977. Mr. McManus was an attorney with Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft from 1970 to 1974. He served in the United States Army in 1968-1970.

He graduated from the University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1964) and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1967). He is single and was born March 11, 1943, in Boston, MA.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Michael A. McManus, Jr., To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/260541

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