[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 35, Number 31 (Monday, August 9, 1999)]
[Pages 1573-1574]
[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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August 2

    The President announced his intention to nominate Neal S. Wolin to 
be General Counsel at the Department of the Treasury.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Stephen D. Van 
Beek to be Associate Deputy Secretary and Director of Intermodalism for 
the Department of Transportation.

August 3

    In the morning, the President traveled to Chicago, IL. In the 
afternoon, he returned to Washington, DC, arriving in the evening.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Kathryn M. Turman 
to be Director of the Office for Victims of Crime at the Department of 
Justice.
    The President announced his intention to nominate David J. Hayes to 
be Deputy Secretary at the Department of the Interior.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Michael J. Frazier 
to be Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs at the Department of 
Transportation.
    The President directed the Department of Health and Human Services 
to release $55 million in Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program 
emergency funds for nine States affected by the ongoing heat wave.
    The White House announced that the President will meet with Prime 
Minister Bulent Ecevit of Turkey at the White House on September 28.

August 4

    The President announced the nomination of Ivan Itkin to be Director 
of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management at the Department 
of Energy.
    The President announced the nomination of Gregory L. Rohde to be 
Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department 
of Commerce.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Cecille Pulitzer as 
a member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board.

August 5

    The President announced his intention to nominate Carol J. Parry to 
be a member of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Paul Hill to be 
Chair and member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
    The President announced his intention to nominate John W. Marshall 
to be Director of the U.S. Marshals Service at the Department of 
Justice.
    The President announced his intention to nominate John J. Goglia to 
be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Dan Herman Renberg 
to be a member of the Board of Directors at the Export-Import Bank of 
the United States.
    The White House announced that the President will award the 
Presidential Medal of Freedom to the following individuals during the 
week of August 9: Lloyd M. Bentsen; Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr.; Jimmy and 
Rosalynn Carter; Evy Dubrow; Sister M. Isolina Ferre; Gerald R. Ford; 
Oliver White Hill; Max Kampelman; and Edgar Wayburn.

August 6

    In the morning, the President traveled to Little Rock, AR.
    The President announced the nomination of Sylvia V. Baca to be 
Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department 
of the Interior.
    The President announced the nomination of Richard A. Meserve to be a 
member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The President will 
designate him as Chair upon appointment.
    The President announced the nomination of George Farr to be a member 
of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.
    The President announced the nomination of Linda Morgan to be a 
member of the Surface Transportation Board. The President will designate 
her as Chair upon appointment.

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    The President announced his intention to nominate Roger W. Ferguson, 
Jr., to be Vice Chair of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve 
System.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Sam Kathryn Campana 
as a member of the National Drought Policy Commission.
    The White House announced that the President will attend the Asia 
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meeting September 12-13 in 
Auckland, New Zealand.
    The White House also announced that Prime Minister Kjell Magne 
Bondevik of Norway will travel to Washington for a working visit with 
the President at the White House on October 15.