Career
He also "served on President Ronald Reagan"s Export-Import Bank transition team, and in top-level positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including as deputy assistant secretary of state for international trade." He also had a private law practice in Washington, District of Columbia (1976 - 1984). Geimer was described as "a visionary" by Jamestown Foundation Board member and former Central Intelligence Agency director Research . James Woolsey, and by Jamestown Foundation Advisory Board member Zbigniew Brzezinski as "a patriot with a vision, an idealist with a program, and a leader who knew how to get things done." Geimer"s funeral service was attended by then-Vice President Dick Cheney, also a Jamestown Foundation Board member.