    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [February 20, 1991]
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    Nomination of David Floyd Lambertson To Be United States Ambassador to
    Thailand
    February 20, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate David Floyd
    Lambertson, of Kansas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Thailand. He would succeed Daniel A.
    O'Donohue.
        Mr. Lambertson currently serves as diplomat-in-residence in the
    department of political science at the University of Kansas in Lawrence,
    KS. Prior to this Mr. Lambertson served as Deputy Assistant Secretary
    for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State, 1987-
    1990; deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, 1986-
    1987; deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra,
    Australia, 1984-1986; and as Director of the Office of Korean Affairs at
    the Department of State, 1982-1984. From 1981 to 1982 he attended the
    Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Mr. Lambertson also served
    as the deputy chief of the political section at the U.S. Embassy in
    Tokyo, Japan, 1977-1981. He has served at the Department of State as
    Deputy Director in the Office of Japanese Affairs, 1975-1977, and in the
    Office of Regional Affairs for the East Asia Bureau, 1973-1975. In
    addition Mr. Lambertson has served as a member of the U.S. delegation to
    the Vietnam talks in Paris, 1971-1973; at the American consulate in
    Medan, Indonesia, 1969-1971; and as a political officer at the U.S.
    Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, 1965-1968. Mr. Lambertson studied at the
    Foreign Service Institute in Washington, DC: Indonesian language
    training, 1968-1969, and Vietnamese language training, 1964-1965. Mr.
    Lambertson joined the Foreign Service in 1963.
        Mr. Lambertson graduated from the University of Redlands (B.A.,
    1962). He served in the U.S. Air Force Reserves, 1960-1962. Mr.
    Lambertson was born June 30, 1940, in Sabetha, KS. He is married and
    resides in Lawrence, KS.