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Nomination of Nicholas Platt to be United States Ambassador to Zambia

July 09, 1982

The President today announced his intention to nominate Nicholas Platt to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia. He would succeed Frank G. Wisner.

In 1959 Mr. Platt was research assistant at the Washington Center for Foreign Policy Research. He entered the Foreign Service in 1959 as consular officer in Windsor. He studied Chinese language at the Foreign Service Institute in 1962-1963 and in Taichung in 1963-1964. He was political officer in Hong Kong from 1964 to 1968. In the Department he was China desk officer in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 1968-1969, Chief of Asian Communist Areas Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1969-1971, and Deputy Director, then Director of the Executive Secretariat in 1971-1973. In 1973-1974 he was Chief of the Political Section in Beijing (formerly Peking), and Deputy Chief of the Political Section in Tokyo in 1974-1977. He was Director for Japanese Affairs in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department in 1977-1978. In 1978-1980 he was staff member of the National Security Council at the White House, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the Department of Defense in 1980-1981. Since 1981 he has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in the Department.

Mr. Platt graduated from Harvard College (B.A., 1957) and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (M.A., 1959). His foreign languages are Chinese (Mandarin), German, French, and Japanese. He is married, has three children, and resides in Washington, D.C. He was born March 10, 1936.

Ronald Reagan, Nomination of Nicholas Platt to be United States Ambassador to Zambia Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/245797

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