[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 19 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Pages 692-693]
[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 an

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nounced by the Office of the Press Secretary and not included elsewhere 
in this issue.

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May 5

    In the afternoon, the President traveled to Mexico City, Mexico, 
arriving in the evening.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Richard Sklar to 
serve as U.S. Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management 
and Reform at the State Department, with rank of Ambassador.

May 6

    In the evening, the President met separately with Mexican opposition 
leaders Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinjosa, president, National Action 
Party (PAN), Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president, Party of the 
Democratic Revolution (PRD), and Humberto Roque Villanueva, president, 
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in the Castillo Room of El 
Presidente Intercontinental Hotel.
    Later, the President and Hillary Clinton attended a cultural 
presentation at the Palacio de Belles Artes with President Ernesto 
Zedillo of Mexico and Mrs Anilda Zedillo.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Jackie M. Clegg as 
First Vice President and Vice Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the 
United States.
    The President announced his intention to nominate James A. Harmon as 
President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Kathy Karpan as 
Director of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of 
the Interior.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Patrick A. Shea as 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.

May 7

    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to 
Tlaxcala and Teotihuacan, Mexico. In the evening, they returned to 
Mexico City.
    Later, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to San Jose, Costa 
Rica.

May 8

    In the morning, the President visited the Museum of Costa Rican Art.
    The White House announced that the President will give commencement 
addresses at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, May 18; West 
Point, May 31; and the University of California-San Diego, June 14.

May 9

    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to 
Bridgetown, Barbados.
    The White House announced that in connection with his trip to The 
Netherlands May 28 for the U.S.-European Union summit and the 
commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Marshall plan, the 
President accepted an invitation to meet with newly elected Prime 
Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom in London.