09/11/1977
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"CLIFFORD L. ALEXANDER, JR., of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of the Army, vice Martin H. Hoffmann, resigned."
"You have got a great country. And you are part of it."
"You were chosen in the same way; in a strictly competitive selection process to serve in a very important post for just a short period of time."
"RICHARD B. PARKER, of Kansas, a Foreign Service officer of Class one, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Lebanon."