[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 37 (Monday, September 18, 1995)]
[Pages 1565-1566]
[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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September 11

    In the morning, the President traveled to Carbondale, IL.
    In the afternoon, the President returned to Washington, DC. He then 
met with members of the Principals Committee and Assistant Secretary of 
State Richard Holbrooke to discuss Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Donna Dearman 
Smith to the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and 
Excellence in Education Foundation.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Morris S. Arnold to 
the Board of Directors of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship 
Foundation.
    The President announced his intention to appoint John J. Pikarski, 
Jr., to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage 
Abroad.

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    The White House announced that the President will award the 
Presidential Medal of Freedom to the following individuals in a White 
House ceremony on September 28:
    --Peggy Charren;
    --William T. Coleman, Jr.;
    --Joan Ganz Cooney;
    --John Hope Franklin;
    --A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.;
    --Frank M. Johnson, Jr.;
    --C. Everett Koop;
    --Gaylord Nelson;
    --Walter P. Reuther;
    --James W. Rouse;
    --Willie Velasquez; and
    --Lew R. Wasserman.
    The White House announced that the President has invited President 
Thomas Klestil of Austria to Washington, DC, for a working visit on 
October 19.

September 12

    In the morning, the President met with President Sali Berisha of 
Albania.
    In an Oval Office ceremony in the afternoon, the President presented 
the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Rabbi Menachem Schneerson.

September 13

    In the morning, the President traveled to Elkridge, MD.
    Following his return to Washington, DC, in the afternoon, the 
President met with Prime Minister P.J. Patterson of Jamaica. He then met 
briefly with His Holiness the Dalai Lama to discuss the preservation of 
Tibetan religion and culture.
    The White House announced that the President has invited President 
Jacques Chirac of France to Washington, DC, for a state visit on 
November 3.

September 14

    The President announced his intention to appoint Vera C. Rubin, Eric 
S. Lander, Marcia K. McNutt, and George S. Hammond as members of the 
President's Committee on the National Medal of Science.
    The President announced his intention to appoint R. Scott Warner as 
a member of the Panama Canal Consultative Committee.

September 15

    In a morning ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received 
diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Var Huoth of Cambodia, Mustafa 
S. Nyang'anyi of Tanzania, Pastor Micha Ondo Bile of Equatorial Guinea, 
Alvaro Diez de Medina of Uruguay, Knud Erik Tygesen of Denmark, John 
Kerr of the United Kingdom, and Antonio Franca N'dalu of Angola.
    In the afternoon, the President met with representatives of the 
Catholic press. Later he participated in a briefing for senior activists 
on Medicare and Medicaid.
    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton hosted a 
Democratic National Committee trustees dinner on the State Floor.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Jane Bobbitt to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental 
Affairs.