Word: ambassador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...diplomat in Bonn requests an appointment with Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, it is presumably to discuss a subject of considerable import to both of their governments. Thus it raised eyebrows recently-and provoked some snickers-when American Chargé d'Affaires Russell Fessenden was kept waiting while the ambassador of a small Latin American country paid a formal courtesy call on West Germany's chief executive. There was nothing Kiesinger could do about it; by diplomatic protocol, an ambassador has automatic precedence over any lesser rank...
...incident did, however, point up the fact that there has been no U.S. ambassador in Bonn since Henry Cabot Lodge left in January. President Nixon has looked hard for a replacement, and has been turned down by at least three candidates. The situation in Bonn underscores the new Administration's difficulty in filling even the most prized ambassadorial posts. At week's end, it was reported that Nixon had finally found a man for Bonn. But even so, 18 ambassadorships remain vacant. And Nixon has retained about 60 holdovers, including the significantly high number of 18 political appointees...
...wants men who will merely execute, rather than offer constructive policy suggestions or innovations of their own. As Governor Rockefeller's Latin American tours have shown, the President will not hesitate to go outside regular State Department channels when he seeks fresh ideas and recommendations. This leaves the ambassador as little more than a message carrier and high-ranking partygoer, a post wanted by few big businessmen or college professors, who are traditional ambassadorial sources...
...casual press conference delivery, Nixon instead arranged for prime TV time. There was a sense of old-time Johnsonian motion as supporting actors winged around the globe: General Creighton Abrams from Saigon to Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers from Washington to confer with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon, Ambassador Lodge from Paris to Washington...
...peace proposal will be presented to the North Vietnamese and the NFL in Paris on Friday by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...