[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 7 (Monday, February 22, 1999)]
[Pages 257-258]
[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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February 14

    In the afternoon, the President and Hillary Clinton traveled to 
Merida, Mexico, where they toured the Governor's Palace with President 
Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico and his wife, Nilda.

February 15

    In the morning, the President toured the grounds of the Hacienda 
Temozon with President Zedillo. In the evening, the President and 
Hillary Clinton returned to Washington, DC.

February 16

    The President announced his intention to appoint Gregory L. Craig to 
the President's Export Council.
    The White House announced that the President proposed $956 million 
in disaster assistance for Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, 
Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and other Caribbean nations struck

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by Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in the fall of 1998.

February 17

    The President declared a major disaster in Wyoming and ordered 
Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by a severe winter storm on October 5-9, 1998.
    The White House announced that the President will travel to Tucson, 
AZ, and San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA, on February 25-March 2, and 
to Arkansas and Texas on March 12-14.

February 18

    In the morning, the President traveled to Dover, NH, and in the 
evening, he returned to Washington, DC.
    The President named Maurice Goldhaber and Michael E. Phelps as the 
winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, given for a lifetime of achievement 
in the field of nuclear energy.

February 19

    In the evening, at a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room, the President 
granted a posthumous pardon to Lt. Henry O. Flipper, USA. Later the 
President attended a reception celebrating the 90th anniversary of the 
NAACP in the Great Hall at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Valerie J. Bradley, 
Joyce A. Keller, John F. Kennedy, Jr., K. Charlie Lakin, T.J. Monroe, 
Elizabeth C. Pittinger, Michael L. Remus, Jacquelyn B. Victorian, 
Barbara Y. Wheeler, and Sheryl White-Scott as members of the President's 
Committee on Mental Retardation. Ms. Bradley will continue to serve as 
Chair.