While serving as Ambassador to Thailand, Martin's foster son, Marine 1LT Glenn Dill Mann, was killed near Chu Lai, South Vietnam, in November 1965 while attacking enemy positions at Thach Tru with his UH-1 helicopter gunship.

On January 5, 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin's office confirmed that McKenna would be the 21st Ambassador to the United States.

Alice Oldendorff, Ambassador, Bahama Spirit, Balder, Ballangen, Barkald, Bauta, Bernhard Oldendorff, CSL Acadian, CSL Atlas, CSL Argosy, CSL Cabo, CSL Metis, CSL Trailblazer, Eastern Power, Harmen Oldendorff, Honourable Henry Jackman, Johanna Oldendorff, Nelvana, Pioneer, Sheila Ann ( named after Paul Martin's wife ), Sophie Oldendorff, Yeoman Brook, Weser Stahl *

Ambassador Martin's hope was that North Vietnam's leaders would be willing to allow a " phased withdrawal " whereby a gradual departure might be achieved in order to allow helpful locals and all Americans to leave ( along with full military withdrawal ) over a period of months.

Other regular characters featured included The Ambassador of Gay, former child star Gary Coleman ( of Diff ' rent Strokes ), Big Missy ( Martin's alleged girlfriend whom he met online, created and written by show writer and frequent on-air character actor Stewart Engesser ), Rael of the Ralien movement who claimed the 1st false prophet under the illuminati God Amon Re till Prophet Revebo struck his balding wax to a shine.

* 2003 – In an effort to discredit U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who had written an article critical of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reveals that Wilson's wife Valerie Plame is a CIA " operative ".

Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attaché in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, while the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop " one of the most diverting of the Nazis ".

In October 1941, Ribbentrop ’ s prestige was badly damaged by the discovery of the Soviet spy ring in Tokyo headed by Richard Sorge, who was arrested by the Japanese while in bed with the wife of General Eugen Ott, the German Ambassador.

A Romulan mining ship called the Narada captained by Nero attacked the ship in which Spock traveled as Nero blames the Federation ( Ambassador Spock in particular ) for the destruction of his homeworld and for the death of his wife and child.

That year, the Marchioness of Bute, wife of The Earl of Bute, the English Ambassador to Spain, obtained a few seeds from Cavanilles and sent them to Kew Gardens, where they flowered but were lost after two to three years.

It is also interesting to note that when the Spanish Ambassador in Paris heard this news, the headlines were that Darnley “ had murdered his wife, admitted the exiled heretics, and seized the kingdom .” However on the 20 March, Darnley posted a declaration denying all knowledge of or complicity in the Rizzio conspiracy.

In 1524 Henry VIII assigned Wyatt to be an Ambassador at home and abroad, and some time soon after he separated from his wife on the grounds of adultery.

He was known for making such public statements as promising to demolish the Xá Lợi pagoda and vowing to kill his estranged father-in-law, Trần Văn Chuơng, who was the regime's Ambassador to the United States, after the elder man condemned the Ngô family's behavior and disowned his daughter, Nhu's wife, Madame Nhu.

On March 7, 1952, he attended a dinner for the visiting Indian Ambassador to the U. S., Binay Ranjan Sen, and his wife at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Damad Ahmad Fathi Pasha ( b. at Eyub, 1801 ; d. at Constantinople, 14 February 1858 ), Ambassador to Austria 1835-1836, at the Court of St James's 1838, and to France 1838, Marshal of the Artillery 1845-1852, posthumous son of Radosi Haji Hafiz Ahmad Agha, by his wife, Salaha Khanum.

Grantham was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, British Ambassador to Austria at the time, by his wife Frances, daughter of Thomas Worsley.

As of his latest promotion, his full name and title is ; " His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh ; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes ": When serving as Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork, he is also referred to simply as " His Excellency ", and is also nicknamed " Blackboard Monitor Vimes ," and " Vetinari's Terrier " ( or hammer ): According to his wife, Sybil, Vimes is recognised by many as Lord Vetinari's right-hand man.

His wife Anne is a daughter of Paul Cellucci, former Governor of Massachusetts and former US Ambassador to Canada.

By his second wife he had a daughter and a son, Sir Laurence Collier, who was the British Ambassador to Norway 1941-51.

Ambassador Sarek from Vulcan boards with his human wife Amanda who Captain Kirk learns, to his surprise, are Mr. Spock's parents.

He currently is a Public Relations Ambassador for Woodbine Entertainment Group, and resides in Oshawa, Ontario with his wife Lisa and two sons, Bradley and Russell.

This set off a series of events which resulted in what become known as " Plamegate ": the disclosure by journalist Robert Novak of the – until then covert – status as a CIA officer of Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson.

During Edge ’ s term as Ambassador to France, his wife was known as “ the youngest ambassadress ”.

His singing at such soirées was vividly described by Anna Lillie de Hegermann-Lindencrone, the American wife of the Danish Ambassador to the Holy See: " Mrs Charles Bristed of New York, a recent convert to the Church of Rome, receives on Saturday evening.

* December the finding of the Conspiration de Cellamare headed by the Duke of Maine and his wife Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon ; the conspiracy was aimed at placing Philip V of Spain as head of the regency in France with the help of the Spanish Ambassador the " príncipe de Cellamare "; the Duke and Duchess are exiled from court and return in 1720 to their home at the Château de Sceaux ;

Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond ( October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956 ) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915 ) of Hoboken, New Jersey.

Ventura ( far left ) with his wife and Charles Manatt, then the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, in 2000.

Actor Paul Newman and his wife, actor Joanne Woodward, lived in the Art Deco building The Ambassador on Daniel Low Terrace between Crescent Avenue and Fort Hill Circle in their early days in film.

On Winston Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in 1940, Hoare lost his Cabinet position, and was, after some months of unemployment, sent as Ambassador to Spain, with his wife Lady Maud Hoare.

To underscore the importance that Ambassador Warren Demian Manshel and his wife and partner Anita Coleman placed on social and political justice, and international relations, friends and family endowed the Warren and Anita Manshel Lecture on American Foreign Policy at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs ( WCFIA ) at Harvard University.

According to US Naval Archives, at 12: 30 an Air America Bell 205 landed Air Vice Marshal Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Madame Kỳ, Dorothy Martin ( wife of Ambassador Martin ) and others on the USS Denver, however contemporary reports and photos state that Marshal Kỳ piloted his own UH-1H Huey to the USS Midway.

As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

On this issue, the President received a detailed report from his U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had just returned from Paris, and Mr. Kennedy asked Stevenson to search for a face-saving way -- for both Paris and Tunis -- out of the imbroglio.

Casement had gone there from the United States the previous year with the support of Clan na Gael leader John Devoy, and after discussions with the German Ambassador in Washington, Count von Bernstorff, to try to recruit an " Irish Brigade " from among Irish prisoners of war and secure German support for Irish independence.

" Chinese Ambassador Cai Jin Biao rejected this explanation, and said that the visit was a violation of the One China Policy, to which Fiji had agreed when diplomatic relations were established in 1975, which would " sabotage relations between China and Fiji.

As the Chinese Ambassador to the FSM Zhang Weidong observed on the 20th anniversary of relations between the two countries, trade between China and the FSM had gone from " almost zero to $ 9. 5 million in 2007.

Ribbentrop had been attempting to appoint Papen as an Ambassador to Turkey since April 1938.

The German Embassy in Ankara had been vacant ever since the retirement of the previous ambassador Friedrich von Keller in November 1938, and Ribbentrop was only able to get the Turks to accept Papen as Ambassador when the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu complained to Kroll in April 1939 about when the Germans were ever going to sent a new ambassador.

As a former Chancellor, Papen had granted this privilege of by-passing the Foreign Minister while he was Ambassador to Austria.

To further block German-Polish diplomatic talks, Ribbentrop had the German Ambassador to Poland, Count Hans-Adolf von Moltke, recalled, and refused to see the Polish Ambassador, Józef Lipski.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

Ambassador Henderson, who had long advocated concessions to Germany, recognized that here was a deliberately conceived alibi the German government had prepared for a war it was determined to start.

The French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet acting on his own initiative told the Italian Ambassador to France, Baron Raffaele Guariglia, that France had accepted Mussolini's peace plan.

", a question to which Ribbentrop had no answer except to state that there would be a " similar message " forthcoming from the French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, who arrived later that afternoon to present the French declaration of war.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

To this end, Ribbentrop appointed a colleague, Otto Abetz, from the Dienststelle Ambassador to France with instructions to promote the political career of Pierre Laval, who Ribbentrop had decided was the French politician most favourable to Germany.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

He is expecting the Soviet Ambassador, Dekanozov, who had been phoning the Minister since early Saturday.

The Japanese Ambassador to the United States Nomura knew this, but managed to give each government the idea that the other had already agreed to the draft as the basis for negotiation.

On Thursday, May 17, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Derek Mitchell to the U. S. Senate for confirmation to serve as U. S. Ambassador to Burma.

This may have been a reference to a report from the British Ambassador in Paris, who had believed that when La Pérouse ’ s expedition set out from Brest in August 1785 it had as one of its objectives the establishment of a settlement in New Zealand to forestall the British.