[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 15 (Monday, April 13, 1998)]
[Pages 632-633]
[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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April 5

    The President had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Tony 
Blair of the United Kingdom concerning the Northern Ireland peace 
process.

April 6

    In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with 
President Boris Yeltsin of Russia concerning the President's recent 
visit to Africa and the upcoming meeting of the heads of state of the 
world's leading industrialized democracies in Birmingham, United 
Kingdom.
    In the afternoon, the President met with student-athletes and their 
sponsors in the Oval Office.
    The President announced the nomination of Diane D. Blair to serve as 
a member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting.
    The President appointed Tony Coelho, Everett M. Ehrlich, Gilbert F. 
Casellas, and Lorraine Green as members of the U.S. Census Monitoring 
Board.

April 7

    In the morning, the President traveled to Kansas City, MO. While en 
route aboard Air Force One, he had a telephone conversation with Prime 
Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland to express his sympathies for the death 
of Mr. Ahern's mother.
    In the afternoon, the President toured the Kansas City Jazz Museum 
and the Negro Baseball League Museum. In the evening, he traveled to 
Chicago, IL.

April 8

    In the afternoon, the President returned to Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Dayton R. Duncan 
as Chair and Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., William L. Graf, Anthony P. 
Grassi, Debbie Jaramillo, Charles R. Jordan, Daniel Kemmis, David Olsen, 
Yolanda Rivera, Donald G. Sampson, Maria F. Teran, and P. Kay Whitlock 
as members of the American Heritage Rivers Initiative Advisory 
Committee.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Vivian Lowery 
Derryck and Susan E. Rice as members of the Board of Directors of the 
African Development Foundation.

April 9

    In the morning, the President traveled to Carrollton, KY, and in the 
afternoon, he returned to Washington, DC.
    In the evening, the President attended a dinner honoring Senator 
Mary L. Landrieu at a private residence.
    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 tornadoes beginning on April 8 and 
continuing.
    The President announced that he has amended the major disaster 
declaration for Georgia, declared March 11, to include seven additional 
counties hard hit by the severe storms and tornadoes.
    In the late evening, the President had a telephone conversation with 
Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom to discuss the Northern 
Ireland peace process.

April 10

    After midnight, the President had further telephone conversations on 
the Northern Ireland peace process with Prime Minister Tony Blair of the 
United Kingdom; Gerry Adams, leader, Sinn Fein; John Hume, leader, 
Social Democratic and Labor Party; Samuel R. Berger, National Security 
Adviser; James B. Steinberg, Deputy National Security Adviser; former 
Senator George J. Mitchell, independent chairman of the multiparty talks 
in Northern Ireland; Gerry Adams, again; David Trimble, leader, Northern 
Ireland Ulster Unionist Party; Prime Minister Blair, twice again; Prime 
Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland; and Mr. Hume again.
    In the afternoon, the President hosted a working lunch for President 
Fidel Ramos of the Philippines in the Map Room.

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    In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton went to Camp 
David, MD, for the Easter holiday weekend.