[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 5 (Monday, February 8, 1999)]
[Pages 208-209]
[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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January 30

    The President and Hillary Clinton went to Camp David, MD, for the 
weekend.
    The White House announced that the President and Hillary Clinton 
will travel to Mexico for a meeting with President Ernesto Zedillo on 
February 15 and to Central America on March 8-11, visiting Nicaragua, 
Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

February 1

    In the morning, the President and Hillary Clinton returned to 
Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to appoint E. Linn Draper, 
Jr., as a member of the President's Council on Sustainable Development.

February 2

    In the morning, the President traveled to Boston, MA. In the 
evening, he traveled to New York City and later returned to Washington, 
DC.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Anne Udall to be a 
Public Trustee at the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in 
National Environmental Policy Foundation.
    The White House announced that the President will meet with 
President Jamil Mahuad of Ecuador and President Alberto Fujimori of Peru 
at the White House on February 5.
    The White House announced that the President will travel to Atlanta, 
GA, on February 5 and to Wintergreen, VA, on February 9.

February 3

    The President announced his intention to nominate Joseph E. Brennan 
to be a Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Joseph Bordogna to 
be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation.

February 4

    In the morning, the President met separately with Prime Minister 
Pandeli Majdo of Albania, Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski of 
Macedonia, and Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority in 
the Cabinet Room at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The President also had 
brief discussions with Leah Rabin, widow of the late Israeli Prime 
Minister, and with Steven Flatow, whose daughter was the victim of a 
1995 terrorist attack in Gaza.
    The White House announced that the President will launch the 
AmeriCorps Call to Service campaign at the University of Maryland in 
College Park on February 10.

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February 5

    The President met with President Jamil Mahuad of Ecuador and 
President Alberto Fujimori of Peru in the Oval Office.

    The President announced the nomination of Thomas J. Erickson to be a 
member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

    The President announced his intention to appoint Betsy Levitt Cohn, 
Cynthia Friedman, Alice Kandell, Hilary Rosen, and Howard A. Tullman as 
members of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

    The President announced the appointment of Mary Beth Cahill as 
Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Public Liaison 
and Robert B. (Ben) Johnson as Assistant to the President and Director 
of the White House Office on the President's Initiative for One America, 
a new office the President is creating to follow up on the work of his 
Initiative on Race.

    The White House announced that the President will meet with 
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany on February 11.