David Charles Miller Jr.

David C. Miller Jr.
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe
In office May 31, 1984 – April 17, 1986
President	Ronald Reagan
United States Ambassador to Tanzania
In office November 4, 1981 – February 28, 1984
President	Ronald Reagan
Personal details
Born	David Charles Miller Jr. (1942-07-15) July 15, 1942 (age 82) Cleveland, Ohio
Political party	Republican

David Charles Miller Jr. (born July 15, 1942) is an American lawyer and diplomat. He served in the Nixon administration and as the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania and later Zimbabwe under Ronald Reagan.[1][2] Miller also served on the African development foundation board of directors.[3]

Education

Miller graduated from Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.[4]

Nixon administration

Miller served as a White House Fellow in 1968-69. In the Nixon administration, Miller worked as confidential assistant to Attorney General John Mitchell for a year and a half, then was moved to the White House, where he worked with Nixon legal counsel John Dean. Miller in 2003 recalled one of his early interactions with Dean involved a request that Miller "set up a safe house here in Washington for the use of the president," for what was intended to be "a completely covert White House operation." Miller said, "I knew at that point that I was going to have to leave. I just said to myself: 'This is insane.'"[5]

References

1. "David Charles Miller Jr. - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
2. "David C. Miller". www.nndb.com. Retrieved October 12, 2019.
3. "Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents". Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. October 12, 1991. Retrieved October 12, 2019 – via Google Books.
4. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20160908/105276/HHRG-114-FA00-Bio-MillerD-20160908.pdf ^[bare URL PDF]
5. Weiner, Tim (2015). One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. New York: Henry Holt and Company. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-62779-083-3.