Coats Is Bush Choice as Envoy to Germany
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Former Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana, an also-ran for secretary of Defense, is President Bush’s choice to be the next U.S. ambassador to Germany, U.S. officials said.
They said former Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. is the front-runner to be ambassador to Japan.
Coats, 57, would succeed John C. Kornblum, a career foreign service officer and expert on Germany. Baker, 75, would replace former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, one of several prominent politicians who have held the post in Tokyo.
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