[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 19 (Monday, May 15, 1995)]
[Pages 817-818]
[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.

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May 8

    In the morning, the President participated in a wreath-laying 
ceremony at Arlington Cemetery in Arlington, VA, commemorating the 50th 
anniversary of V-E Day.
    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to 
Moscow, Russia. While en route to Moscow, the President had a telephone 
conversation with President-elect Jacques Chirac of France.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Leo K. Goto to be 
a member of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of 
Directors.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Marc B. Nathanson 
as a member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors for the International 
Bureau of Broadcasting.

May 9

    Following their arrival in Moscow in the early morning, the 
President and Hillary Clinton went to the Kremlin where they 
participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. 
They then viewed the veterans parade at Red Square.
    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton toured the 
Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War at Poklonnaya Gora. Later in 
the afternoon, they attended a reception for U.S. veterans of World War 
II at the Radisson Slavjanskaya Hotel.
    In the early evening, the President and Hillary Clinton toured the 
Novedevichy Convent. Following a reception for heads of state at St. 
George's Hall, they attended a state dinner hosted by President Boris 
Yeltsin of Russia at the Palace of Congresses in the Kremlin.
    The President announced his intention to nominate John White to be 
Deputy Secretary of Defense.

May 10

    In the morning, the President met with President Yeltsin in St. 
Catherine's Room at the Kremlin.
    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton attended a dinner 
in the Hall of Facets at the Kremlin.
    The President declared a major disaster in the State of Louisiana 
and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts 
in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding on May 8-9.
    The White House announced that the President has invited President 
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to the White House for an official working 
visit on May 18.

May 11

    In the morning, the President and Hillary Clinton met with staff at 
the U.S. Embassy compound.

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    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton toured a Coca-
Cola plant. Following the tour, they traveled to Kiev, Ukraine, where 
the President met with President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine at Mariinsky 
Palace.
    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton attended a state 
dinner hosted by President Kuchma at Mariinsky Palace.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Michael L. Beatty 
to be the U.S. Representative to the Western Interstate Nuclear Board.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals to the Advisory Committee on the Arts of the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts:

    --Don Anselmi;
    --Gregory Carr;
    --David Cofrin;
    --Susan Gelman;
    --Mary C. Hansen;
    --Gary Hindes;
    --Sherry K. Jelsma;
    --Michael Pannos; and
    --Gail Rosene Smith.

    The White House announced that the President has asked a delegation 
led by Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Hershel Gober, Assistant 
Secretary of State Winston Lord, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for POW/MIA Affairs James Wold to travel to Vietnam, May 13-16, 
and Laos, May 17-18, to facilitate the fullest possible accounting of 
American POW/MIA's.

May 12

    In the morning, the President and Hillary Clinton participated in a 
wreath-laying ceremony at the World War II Memorial.
    In the afternoon, following a departure ceremony at Mariinsky Palace 
and tours of St. Andrew's Church and Kyyevo-Pecherska Lavra monastery, 
the President and Hillary Clinton returned to Washington, DC.
    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to Camp 
David, MD, for the weekend.