Mr. Ari Fleischer

Mr. Ari Fleischer

Ari Fleischer was the White House press secretary for President Bush from 2001 to 2003, after having served as the spokesman for the 2000 Bush presidential campaign. He served as spokesman during the presidential recount, September 11, two wars and the anthrax attack. His best selling book, Taking Heat, details his years in the White House and reached #7 on the New York Times best-seller list. Previously, Mr. Fleischer was the communications director for Elizabeth Dole's presidential campaign; the communications director for the House Committee on Ways and Means; and the press secretary to New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici. He also served as press secretary to two members of Congress from New York, and worked on several political campaigns. He is a native of Pound Ridge, New York, and a 1982 graduate of Vermont's Middlebury College. He is now president of his own firm, Ari Fleischer Communications Inc.—a firm that provides advice to corporations and sports organizations on how to handle the press.