[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 23 (Monday, June 14, 1993)]
[Pages 1063-1064]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Digest of Other White House Announcements

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The following list includes the President's public schedule and other 
items of general interest announced by the Office of the Press Secretary 
and not included elsewhere in this issue.

June 5

    In the evening, the President hosted a reunion gala for former 
Georgetown University classmates.

June 6

    In the evening, the President attended a reception at Hickory Hill, 
the Kennedy estate in McLean, VA.

June 9

    In the morning, the President and Hillary Clinton attended Chelsea 
Clinton's eighth grade graduation ceremony at Sidwell Friends School.

June 10

    In the afternoon, the President met with:
    --Jean Nickel, winner of the National Sclerosis Society's Mother of 
      the Year award;
    --Bob Jester, winner of the National Sclerosis Society's Father of 
      the Year award;
    --Dana Stephenson and Beth Troutman, recipients of America's 
      National Teenager Scholarship Program; and
    --Gabrielle Fleekop, participant in the Make a Wish Foundation 
      program.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Merrill D. 
Peterson, Thomas Jefferson professor of history emeritus at the 
University of Virginia, as the chairman of the Thomas Jefferson 
Commemoration Commission. The President will also name the following six 
other members to the Commission:
    John T. Casteen III, president, University of Virginia;
    James K. Golden, professor emeritus, Ohio State University;
    H. Draper Hunt, professor of history, University of Southern Maine;
    Russell E. Dickenson, former director, National Park Service;
    James R. Thompson, former Governor of Illinois; and
    George Taylor Stewart, president, the Foundation for Jefferson's 
      Poplar Forest.

June 11

    In the afternoon, the President had lunch with Judge Stephen Breyer.
    Later in the afternoon, the President received diplomatic 
credentials from the fol- 

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lowing Ambassadors: John de Chastelain of Canada, Rouben Robert 
Shugarian of Armenia, Edmond A. Mulet Lesieur of Guatemala, Mukhamed 
Bobir Malikov of Uzbekistan, and Amos Bernard Muvengwa Midzi of 
Zimbabwe.

    The White House announced that the Domestic Policy Council has 
formed a Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support and 
Independence to be chaired by Bruce Reed, Deputy Assistant to the 
President for Domestic Policy; David Ellwood, Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; and the Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families, after 
a nominee for that position is confirmed by the Senate.