October 6, 1988
The President today announced the appointment of Stephen I. Danzansky as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs.
Mr. Danzansky has served since 1985 as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Economic Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, where his duties included coordinating and planning economic summits for the White House. Mr. Danzansky's appointment and the recent appointment of Dan Crippen as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs completes a functional realignment of economic affairs within the White House. As principal Deputy, Mr. Danzansky will facilitate economic policy coordination within the Executive Office of the President.
Mr. Danzansky graduated from Washington and Lee University and holds a juris doctorate from George Washington University. He was born on July 31, 1939, in Washington, DC, where he currently resides. He is married to the former Joan Winston Cox and has two children, Michael, 19, and Katherine, 14.