[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 11 (Monday, March 18, 1996)]
[Pages 502-503]
[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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March 5 \1\

    The President announced his intention to nominate Aubrey Hooks as 
Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo.
    \1\ This release was not received in time for inclusion in the 
appropriate issue.

March 9

    In the late morning, the President assisted with the installation of 
computer cabling at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, CA, as part 
of NetDay. In the evening, he traveled to Hillsborough, where he 
attended a fundraising reception, and then returned to Washington, DC, 
arriving in the early morning.

March 11

    In the morning, the President traveled to Newark, NJ, and then to 
Wallington, where he toured the Industrial Latex Corp. Superfund site. 
In the afternoon, the President traveled to New York City, and in the 
late evening, he returned to Washington, DC.
    The White House announced that the President has invited President 
Suleyman Demirel of Turkey to Washington for a working visit on March 
29.
    The President announced his intention to nominate David H. Shinn as 
Ambassador to Ethiopia.

March 12

    In the afternoon, the President traveled to Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Susan Bass Levin 
to the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Lonnie R. Bristow 
as Chair and Shirly Ledbetter Jones and Robert E. Anderson as members of 
the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health 
Sciences.

March 13

    In the morning, following his arrival in Sharm al-Sheikh, the 
President met separately with Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel and 
President Boris Yeltsin of Russia in the Presidential suite of the 
Movenpick Hotel. In the afternoon, the President met separately at the 
hotel with King Hassan II of Morocco in the King's suite; with Prime 
Minister John Major of the United Kingdom in the Presidential suite; and 
with Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority in the 
Presidential suite. In the evening, the President traveled to Jerusalem, 
Israel.
    The President declared a major disaster in the State of Maine and 
ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in 
the area struck by severe storms, ice

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jams, and flooding January 19 through February 6.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Kevin Emanuel 
Marchman as Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public and Indian 
Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

March 14

    In the afternoon, the President visited the graves of victims of 
terrorism in Har Herzl Cemetery. In the evening, he returned to 
Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Kenneth D. Brody as 
Chair and Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., as Vice Chair of the Commission on 
United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Gen. Larry D. 
Welch, Rear Adm. Thomas A. Brooks, and Nina J. Stewart to the Security 
Policy Advisory Board.

March 15

    In the afternoon, the President met with Prime Minister John Bruton 
of Ireland in the Oval Office and later received a bowl of shamrocks 
from the Prime Minister in the Roosevelt Room.
    In the late afternoon, the President hosted a reception on the State 
Floor honoring Prime Minister Bruton.
    In the evening, the President attended a Democratic National 
Committee dinner at the Hay Adams Hotel.
    The White House announced that the President will travel to Fort 
Polk, LA, on March 18 to visit American troops who participated in 
Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti and to visit with family members of 
soldiers serving in Bosnia.
    The White House announced that the President will send Office of 
National Drug Control Policy Director Barry R. McCaffrey to head a high 
level mission March 26-27 to discuss the threat narcotics pose to Mexico 
and the United States.