Reagan Appoints Koehler, Donatelli White House Aides
President Reagan today filled two vacancies at the White House, naming former Associated Press executive John O. Koehler as communications director and Washington attorney Frank J. Donatelli as political director.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Koehler was recommended by Charles Z. Wick, the director of the U.S. Information Agency, to succeed Patrick J. Buchanan in the communications post. Koehler, 56, is a special adviser and consultant to Wick.
Donatelli, 37, was deputy assistant to the President for public liaison in 1984 and 1985 and was assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development, with responsibility for African affairs, in 1983 and 1984.
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