May 05, 1977
The President announced today that he will nominate George S. Vest, of Maryland, a Foreign Service officer of the Class of Career Minister, to be Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Mr. Vest, from 1974 to 1977, served as Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the Department of State.
The President today withdrew the nomination of Mr. Vest as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Pakistan, to which post he was nominated on April 7, 1977.
Jimmy Carter, Department of State Nomination of George S. Vest To Be an Assistant Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/243997