[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.