President Gerald Ford Education Harvard University Name Robert Miller | Preceded by Nancy V. Rawls President Ronald Reagan Succeeded by Barbara M. Watson | |
Preceded by Francis T. Underhill, Jr. Occupation Foreign Service officer Books The United States and VIetnam: 1787-1941, Inside an embassy, Vietnam and beyond | ||
Robert Hopkins Miller (born September 8, 1927) was a career Foreign Service officer. He was born in Port Angeles, Washington. Educated at Stanford University and Harvard University, he served in Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa. His experience in Southeast Asia includes service as First Secretary in the American Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam (1962–65); as Director of the Vietnam Working Group, Department of State (1965–67); as Senior Adviser to the American delegation at the Paris peace talks on Vietnam (1968–71); as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs with responsibility for Southeast Asia (1974–77); and as United States Ambassador to Malaysia (1977–80) and to Côte d'Ivoire (1983–86). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. Miller served as Vice President of the National Defense University from 1986 to 1989. In 1990 he was Diplomat-in-Residence at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.