Nomination of Robie Marcus Hooker Palmer To Be United States Ambassador to Hungary

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robie Marcus Hooker Palmer, of Vermont, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to Hungary. He succeeds Nicolas M. Salgo.

Mr. Palmer was a copy assistant at the New York Times in New York City in 1963. From 1963 to 1964, he was assistant to the producer of WNDT-TV in New York. He then entered on duty in the Foreign Service of the United States in late 1964 and was assigned as third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, until 1966. From 1966 to 1968, Mr. Palmer was an international relations officer in NATO affairs in the Department and then went to Garmisch as a student at the U.S. Army Russian Institute until 1969. In 1969 he was assigned as a second secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, U.S.S.R., where he served until 1971 when he returned to the Department to become a member of the policy planning staff. In 1975-1978 he was political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and in 1978 returned again to the Department as Office Director for Policy in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. In 1981 Mr. Palmer was Deputy for Policy in the Bureau of European Affairs and then Deputy to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. Since 1982 he has been Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs.

Mr. Palmer graduated from Yale University (B.A., 1963). His foreign languages are Russian and Serbo-Croatian. He is married, and he was born on July 14, 1941, in Ann Arbor, MI.