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Pompeo Swears In Retired SFSO Tibor Nagy as Asst Secretary For African Affairs

September 18, 2018 By in AF |Africa, Ambassadors, Mike Pompeo, Pompeo, Secretary of State, State Department, Top Ranks Tags: , , , , ,

 

Via state.gov:

Ambassador Nagy, a retired career Foreign Service Officer, spent 32 years in government service, including over 20 years in assignments across Africa. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ethiopia (1999-2002), United States Ambassador to Guinea (1996-1999) as well as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Nigeria (1993-1995), Cameroon (1990-1993), and Togo (1987-1990). Previous assignments include Zambia, the Seychelles, Ethiopia, and Washington, DC.

Ambassador Nagy has received numerous awards from the U.S. Department of State in recognition of his service, including commendations for helping prevent famine in Ethiopia; supporting the evacuation of Americans from Sierra Leone during a violent insurrection; supporting efforts to end the Ethiopian-Eritrean War; and managing the United States Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria during political and economic crises.

Following his retirement from the Foreign Service, Ambassador Nagy served as Vice Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech University from 2003 – 2018. During that time he lectured nationally on Africa, foreign policy, international development, and U.S. diplomacy, in addition to serving as a regular op-ed contributor to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper on global events. He co-authored “Kiss Your Latte Goodbye: Managing Overseas Operations,” nonfiction winner of the 2014 Paris Book Festival.

Ambassador Nagy arrived in the United States in 1957 as a political refugee from Hungary; he received his B.A. from Texas Tech University and M.S.A. from George Washington University.

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Secretary Pompeo Gets a Formal Foggy Bottom Swearing In With POTUS in Attendance

May 3, 2018 By in Pompeo, Secretary of State, State Department, Trump, US Presidents Tags: , , , ,

Posted: 4:21 am PT

 

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Michael R. Pompeo Sworn-in as 70th Secretary of State

April 26, 2018 By in Photo of the Day, Pompeo, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Senate Tags: , , , , ,

Posted: 10:38 pm  PT

 

AND NOW THIS —

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Career Diplomat Lee McClenny Sworn-In as New U.S.Ambassador to Paraguay

February 21, 2018 By in Ambassadors, assistant secretaries, Foreign Service, FSOs, Staffing the FS, State Department, Top Ranks, WHA|Western Hemisphere Tags: , , , ,

Posted: 3:05 am ET

 

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Amb. Kenneth J. Braithwaite Presents His Credentials in Norway, Now Officially on #Olympics2018 Wager

February 9, 2018 By in Ambassadors, EUR|Europe, U.S. Missions Tags: , , , ,

Posted: 9:16 am ET

 

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@StateDept Runs Out of Sr. Officials to Swear-In New Asst Secretary For Public Affairs?

February 6, 2018 By in Appointments, assistant secretaries, Functional Bureaus, Media, Political Appointees, State Department, Top Ranks, Trump Tags: , , , , ,

Posted: 3:32 am ET

 

On January 4, the WH announced the President’s appointment of Michelle Giuda, the former Deputy National Press Secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich to be the next Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. Ms Giuda has been  Senior VP for PR firm, Weber Shandwick (see PR SVP and Ex-Gingrich Aide Michelle Giuda to be Asst Secretary of State for Public Affairs). State/Flickr says the swearing-in photo was taken on Friday, February 2, but the caption itself says Saturday, February 3.  The State Department spokesperson who reports to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs tweeted a welcome to her new boss, who apparently was sworn-in on Saturday, February 3.

So the new Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs was not only sworn-in on a Saturday, she also did not have any senior State Department official to swear her in? Secretary Tillerson is on travel to Bariloche, Argentina; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; Bogotá, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. And it looks like Ms. Guida’s new boss U/S Steve Goldstein is also traveling with Secretary Tillerson.  Deputy Secretary Sullivan was spending his weekend somewhere, it was the weekend afterall. We’re sure the State Department has a reasonable explanation for this Saturday swearing-in across the park, it looks like, and also about those exciting red boxes on its org chart.

Jennifer Wicks from the Offie (sic) of Presidential Appointments officiates the swearing-in ceremony for Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Michelle Giuda in Washington, D.C. on February 3, 2018. [State Department Photo/ Public Domain]

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VPOTUS Swears-in Sam Brownback as Ambassador-at-Large, Also Kansas Refuses to Fast

February 2, 2018 By in Ambassadors, Foreign Affairs, Functional Bureaus, Political Appointees, State Department Tags: , , , , , ,

Posted: 3:03 am ET

 

AND NOW THIS — the comments though are extraordinarily … um blunt. We have no particular favorite but  ‘irony committed suicide in the Potomac” is memorable.

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Tillerson Swears-In New Asst Secretary For Econ and Business Affairs Manisha Singh

January 23, 2018 By in assistant secretaries, Functional Bureaus, Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, State Department, Top Ranks Tags: , , ,

Posted: 2:58 am ET

 

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U/S Shannon Swears-In New U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote

December 23, 2017 By in AF |Africa, Ambassadors, Foreign Service, FSOs, Staffing the FS, State Department, U.S. Missions Tags: , , , ,

Posted: 1:33 am ET

 

Via state.gov:

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon officiates the swearing-in ceremony of U.S. Ambassador-designate to Zambia Daniel Foote at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on December 20, 2017. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]

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VPOTUS Swears-In Ken Juster as New U.S. Ambassador to India

November 14, 2017 By in Ambassadors, Political Appointees, SCA | South Central Asia, State Department, Trump, U.S. Missions Tags: , , , , , ,

Posted: 12:46 am ET
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