The President today announced that he will nominate Lawrence S. Eagleburger, of Arlington, Va., as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Eagleburger was Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management from 1975 to 1977.
He was born August 1, 1930, in Milwaukee, Wis. He received a B.S. in 1952 and an M.S. in 1957 from the University of Wisconsin. He served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955.
Eagleburger joined the State Department in 1957 as an economic officer in Tegucigalpa. Between 1959 and 1966, he served in the State Department as intelligence research specialist, then economic officer in Belgrade, then foreign affairs officer. From 1966 to 1967, he was on the National Security Council staff. He was special assistant to the Under Secretary of State from 1967 to 1968.
From January to July 1969, Eagleburger was executive assistant to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council. He served as political counselor to USNATO in Brussels from 1969 to 1971. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs at the Defense Department from 1971 to 1973.
From 1973 to 1975, Eagleburger was executive assistant to the Secretary of State. In 1975 he served as Acting Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management, and from May 1975 to 1977 he was Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia Nomination of Lawrence S. Eagleburger. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244253