Nomination of Barry M. Goldwater, Sr., To Be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Communications Satellite Corporation

The President today announced his intention to nominate Barry M. Goldwater, Sr., 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 1992. He would succeed E. Pendleton James.

Currently Mr. Goldwater serves as a professor at the American Institutions School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Prior to this he served as a United States Senator (R - AZ).

Mr. Goldwater graduated from the University of Arizona in 1928. He was born January 1, 1909, in Phoenix, AZ. He has four children and resides in Scottsdale, AZ.