United States Ambassador to Zaire Nomination of Robert B. Oakley.

The President today announced that he will nominate Robert B. Oakley, of Shreveport, La., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Zaire. He would replace Walter Cutler, who is being reassigned.

Oakley has been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs since 1977.

He was born March 12, 1931, in Dallas, Tex. He received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1952. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1955.

Oakley joined the Foreign Service in 1957 and was posted in Khartoum, Abidjan, Saigon, Paris, at the United Nations, and at the State Department. From 1971 to 1974, he was political officer in Beirut, and in 1974. he was an international relations officer at the State Department.

From 1974 to 1977, Oakley was assigned to the National Security Council.