[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 43 (Monday, October 27, 1997)]
[Pages 1653-1654]
[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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October 18

    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled from San 
Carlos de Bariloche to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later, they returned to 
Washington, DC, arriving the following morning.

October 21

    The President announced his intention to nominate William J. Lynn 
III to be Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Richard M. McGahey 
to serve as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Cyril Kent McGuire 
to serve as Assistant Secretary of Educational Research and Improvement 
at the Department of Education.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Robert McNamara, 
Jr., to serve as General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Daryl L. Jones to 
be Secretary of the Air Force.
    The President announced his intention to appoint former 
Representative John Bryant as head of the U.S. delegation to the 
International Telecommunication Union's 1997 World Radiocommunications 
Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, with the personal rank of Ambassador.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Sam W. Brown with 
the personal rank of Ambassador during his service as the head of the 
U.S. delegation to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in 
Europe's Ministerial Preparatory Conferences in Vienna, Austria.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Robert L. Baxter as 
a member of the Advisory Committee to the President's Commission on 
Critical Infrastructure Protection.

October 22

    In the afternoon, the President met with Ecumenical Patriarch 
Bartholomew I in the Oval Office.
    The President announced his intention to nominate John Charles 
Horsley as Associate Deputy Secretary and Director of Intermodalism at 
the Department of Transportation.
    The White House announced the President's intention to appoint the 
following individuals as members of the Advisory Committee on Public 
Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters: Charles Benton, 
Frank Blythe, Peggy Charren, Harold C. Crump, Frank Cruz, Robert 
Decherd, Barry Diller, William Duhamel, Rob Glaser, Jim Goodmon, Paul La 
Camera, Richard Masur, Newton Minow, Shelby Scott, Gigi Sohn, Karen 
Peltz Strauss, Cass R. Sunstein, Lois Jean White, and James Yee.
    The White House announced that the President received the final 
report of the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure 
Protection on October 20.

October 23

    The President announced his intention to nominate Mary Beth West for 
the rank of Ambassador to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for 
Oceans and Space.

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    The President announced his intention to nominate William R. Ferris 
to be Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
    The President announced the nomination of William Dale Montgomery to 
be Ambassador to Croatia.
    The President named 60 young researchers to receive the second 
annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
    The White House announced that the President invited President 
Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico to Washington, DC, for a working visit on 
November 14.

October 24

    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton attended the 
taping of a National Symphony Orchestra performance at the Kennedy 
Center Concert Hall for later broadcast.
    The President announced the nomination of Linda Key Breathitt as a 
member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
    The President announced the nomination of Curt Hebert, Jr., as a 
member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
    The President announced the nomination of Frank D. Yturria to serve 
as a member of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation.