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  • Call the Briefing! is a best-selling memoir of ten years in the White House; called the textbook of White House press relations.
  • Fitzwater, Marlin. Call the Briefing!: Bush and Reagan, Sam and Helen: A Decade with Presidents and the Press. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media, 1996. ISBN   9781558506374.
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    References

    1. Appointment of Marlin Fitzwater as Assistant to the President for Press Relations
    2. "Weddings of the Year", People, July 5, 1999.
    3. Fitzwater, Marlin (1995). Call the Briefing. Adams Media. p. 53. ISBN   1-55850-637-3.
    Marlin Fitzwater
    Marlin Fitzwater 1987.jpg
    Fitzwater in 1987
    18th White House Press Secretary
    In office
    January 20, 1989 January 20, 1993
    Acting: February 1, 1987 – January 20, 1989
    Political offices
    Preceded by White House Press Secretary
    1987–1993
    Acting: 1987–1989
    Succeeded by