Nixon Fills 3 Key Posts
(N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright) NEW YORK, Jan. 5. President-elect Richard Nixon has filled three more key positions in the State Department. To the No. 2 post in the department, below the Secretary of State designate (Mr William Rogers), Mr Nixon has appointed Mr Elliot Richardson, aged 48, now the At-torney-General of Massachusetts. Mr Richardson will be Under-secretary of State. Mr Alexis Johnson, who is 60 and at present Ambassador to Japan, is named as Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and Mr Richard Pedersen, aged 43, America’s deputy representative in the United Nations Security Council, is appointed Counsellor of the State Department. Mr Johnson’s first job for the incoming President will be an on-the-spot evaluation of the Vietnam situation. But the President-elect, in reply to questions, said he had no plans to replace the United States Ambassador to South Vietnam (Mr Ellsworth Bunker).
“We believe that a change of ambassador would not be wise at this time,” Mr Nixon told the news conference at which the names of the three State Department officials were announced.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31879, 6 January 1969, Page 11
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