Nomination of Robert Hopkins Miller To Be United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Hopkins Miller, of Washington, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, as Ambassador to the Republic of Ivory Coast. He would succeed Nancy V. Rawls.

Mr. Miller served in the United States Army in 1945-1947. In the Department he was junior management intern (1951-1952) and international relations officer in the Office of European Regional Affairs (1952-1954). In 1954-1957 he was political officer in Paris NATO. In the Department he was international relations officer in the Executive Secretariat (1957-1960) and Belgium-Luxembourg desk officer (1960-1962). In 1962-1965 he was deputy chief of the political section in Saigon. In the Department he was Director of the Vietnam Working Group in 1965-1968 and attended the Imperial Defense College in London in 1968. In 1968-1971 he was senior adviser, United States Delegation to the Paris Meetings on Vietnam, in Paris. In 1971-1973 he was Deputy Executive Secretary in the Department and was on detail as Assistant Director for International Affairs at the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1973-1974. In 1974-1977 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the Department. He was Ambassador to Malaysia in 1977-1980 and has been Director for Management Operations in the Department (1980-1983).

Mr. Miller graduated from Stanford University (A.B., 1949) and Harvard University (M.A., 1951). His foreign language is French. He was born September 8, 1927, in Port Angeles, Wash.