[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 11 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
[Pages 434-435]
[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 7

    The President and Hillary Clinton went to Camp David, MD.

March 9

    In the morning, the President and Hillary Clinton returned to 
Washington, DC.
    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton hosted a 
Millennium Evening event in the East Room, which was taped for later 
broadcast on WETA's ``In Performance at the White House'' series.
    The President declared a major disaster in Alabama and ordered 
Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by severe storms and flooding beginning on March 7.

March 10

    In the morning, the President traveled to Bridgeport, CT, and in the 
afternoon, he traveled to Westport, CT.
    Later, the President traveled to Cincinnati, OH, and in the evening, 
he returned to Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Alice Rae Yelen to 
serve as a member of the National Museum Services Board.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Thomas Ehrlich and 
Dorothy A. Johnson to serve as members of the Board of Directors of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Milton M. Irvin as 
Chair and member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit 
Guaranty Corporation.

March 11

    In the afternoon, the President met with Chairman of the Government 
Viktor Chernomyrdin of Russia in the Oval Office.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Mahlon (Sandy) 
Apgar IV to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, 
Logistics, and Environment at the Department of Defense.
    The President named Todd Stern to coordinate the administration's 
efforts on climate change, as Assistant to the President for Special 
Projects.

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    The President named Phillip Caplan as Assistant to the President and 
Staff Secretary.
    The President announced his intention to nominate James K. Robinson 
to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the 
Department of Justice.
    The White House announced that the President will travel to Las 
Vegas, NV, on March 18 and will return to Washington, DC, late the same 
evening.
    The White House announced that the President will visit Rwanda while 
he is in Africa March 22-April 2.
    The President declared a major disaster in Georgia and ordered 
Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by severe storms and flooding beginning March 7.

March 12

    The President announced his intention to nominate G. Edward DeSeve 
to serve as Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management 
and Budget.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Vivian Lowery 
Derryck to serve as Assistant Administrator for Africa at the U.S. 
Agency for International Development.

March 13

    In the afternoon, the President met with Rev. Jesse Jackson in the 
Oval Office.
    Later, the President and Hillary Clinton went to Camp David, MD.