Liberia: The 'People's Ambassador' Get a Key Role in Biden's Cabinet

Washington — Linda Thomas Greenfield will be President-elect Joe Biden's point person at the United Nations. In nominating the former Ambassador to Liberia Tuesday, Mr. Biden trumpeted her thirty-five years in the foreign service, particularly in Liberia where she was beloved as The People's Ambassador".

Said President-elect Biden: "As United States Ambassador to the United Nations, I nominate Linda Thomas Greenfield, a seasoned and distinguished diplomat with 35 years in the foreign service, who never forgot where she came from - growing up in segregated Louisiana. The eldest of eight, her dad couldn't read or write but he was the smartest person he knew. The first in her family to graduate from high school, then college, the whole world virtually ahead of her as her mom and dad thought her to believe, posts in Switzerland, Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Jamaica, Liberia, where she was known as the People's Ambassador by working people struggling to get by and always treated them with the same level of humility and respect. She was our top state department official in charge of Africa during the Ebola crisis, she received overwhelming support from her fellow career foreign service officers - and she will be a Cabinet status because I want to hear her voice on all the major foreign policy discussions."

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