David Huebner - US Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa

MICHELE PETERSEN REMEMBERS FEBRUARY 22nd

Published on 2012-02-17 17:01:38

For us at the Embassy and Consulate General, February 22, 2011 was not remote, vicarious, or clinical. It was personal. As you know from prior posts, the US-NZ Partnership Forum was in full swing at AMI Stadium that day. Our US Antarctic Program has extensive facilities in (and has staged for decades from) Christchurch. There is [...]

CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF FORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

Published on 2012-02-15 19:36:42

Seventy years ago today, on February 16, 1942, Walter Nash entered the Oval Office and presented to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of New Zealand. Mr Nash, then the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, thus became his country’s first Ambassador to the United States. Mr Nash’s arrival in [...]

LEAVING ANTARCTICA, RELUCTANTLY

Published on 2012-02-14 20:35:57

Today is my last day in Antarctica, and I am not at all happy about leaving. It has been an exhilarating week of exploration and adventure, and I really don’t want it to end. Not that the stacks of paper and the scrums of insistent people awaiting my return aren’t eerily analogous to towering walls [...]