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Department of State Nomination of Viron P. Vaky To Be an Assistant Secretary.

June 08, 1978

The President today announced that he will nominate Viron P. Vaky, of Corpus Christi, Tex., to be Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Vaky would replace Terence A. Todman, who has been appointed Ambassador to Spain. The President also announced that he will nominate Vaky to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation.

Vaky was born September 13, 1926, in Corpus Christi. He received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University in 1947 and an M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1948. He served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946.

Vaky joined the Foreign Service in 1949 and served in Guayaquil, Buenos Aires, Bogota, and at the State Department. From 1964 to 1967, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Guatemala, and in 1967 and 1968, he was on the Planning and Coordination Staff at the State Department.

In 1968 and 1969, Vaky was Deputy Assistant Secretary, then acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He was on the National Security Council in 1969 and 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he was diplomat in residence at Georgetown University.

Vaky served as Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1972 to 1974 and Ambassador to Colombia from 1974 to 1976. Since 1976 he has been Ambassador to Venezuela.

Jimmy Carter, Department of State Nomination of Viron P. Vaky To Be an Assistant Secretary. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248480

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