[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 28 (Monday, July 13, 1998)]
[Pages 1358-1359]
[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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July 3

    In the late evening, the President and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton 
traveled to Elmendorf Air Force Base, AK, and Washington, DC, arriving 
early the next morning.

July 6

    The President announced his intention to nominate Kathryn Dee 
Robinson to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Ruby Butler 
DeMesme as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve 
Affairs, Installations and Environment.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Patrick T. Henry 
to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Carolyn H. Becraft 
as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Charles F. Kartman 
for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Envoy 
for the Korean Peace Talks.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Philip Condit, 
Lodewijk J.R. de Vink, Gary DiCamillo, John P. Manning, Ernest Micek, 
and Jonathan Tisch to be members of the President's Export Council.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Ambassador Richard 
Henry Jones to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan.
    The President announced that he has accepted an invitation from 
President Boris Yeltsin of Russia to meet in Russia in early September.

July 7

    The President declared a major disaster in New York and ordered 
Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by severe storms and flooding beginning June 25 and continuing.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Linda Chavez-
Thompson as a member of the President's Committee on Employment of 
People with Disabilities.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Thomas K. Thomas to 
serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christopher Columbus 
Fellowship Foundation.
    The President announced his intention to nominate D. Bambi Kraus to 
serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American 
Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development.

July 8

    In the afternoon, the President traveled to Arlington, VA. Later, he 
returned to Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Simon Ferro to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Panama.
    The President announced the nomination of David Gordon Carpenter to 
be Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security and Director of 
the Office of Foreign Missions, with the Rank of Ambassador.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Eugene A. Conti, 
Jr., to serve as Assistant Secretary for Domestic Transportation Policy 
at the Department of Transportation.

July 9

    In the morning, the President traveled to Atlanta, GA. In the 
afternoon, he traveled to Daytona, FL.
    In the evening, the President traveled to Miami, FL, and later, he 
returned to Washington, DC, arriving after midnight.

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    The President announced his intention to nominate William B. Milam 
to be Ambassador to Pakistan.
    The White House announced that the President has invited President 
Julio Maria Sanguinetti of Uruguay for a working visit on July 23.

July 10

    In the afternoon, the President had a telephone conversation with 
President Boris Yeltsin of Russia and then met with Prime Minister Jerzy 
Buzek of Poland in the Oval Office. Later, the President and Hillary 
Clinton were interviewed by Stars and Stripes in the Map Room at the 
White House and later participated in a celebration for the 200th 
anniversary of the Marine Band on the South Lawn.
    The President announced his intention to appoint John Silberman, 
Jeff Valdez, and Ruth Whetstone Wagner as members to the Advisory 
Committee on the Arts of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts.