[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 11 (Monday, March 20, 2000)]
[Pages 574-575]
[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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March 13

    In the morning, the President traveled to Cleveland, OH, and in the 
afternoon, he traveled to Chicago, IL. In the evening, the President 
returned to Washington, DC, arriving after midnight.

March 14

    In the afternoon, the President had a telephone conversation with 
Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom. Later, the President 
was presented a portrait by photographer Arnold Newman in the Oval 
Office.

March 15

    In the evening, the President traveled to Baltimore, MD, and later, 
he returned to Washington, DC.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Bernard Daniel 
Rostker to be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.

March 17

    Over the course of the afternoon, the President met separately in 
the Oval Office with the following Irish leaders: Prime Minister Bertie 
Ahern, Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon and First 
Minister David Trimble, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, and Labour Party 
leader John Hume.
    Later in the afternoon, the President participated in a Saint 
Patrick's Day ceremony with Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland in 
the Roosevelt Room.
    In the evening, the President and the First Lady hosted a Saint 
Patrick's Day reception in the East Room.
    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 flooding on March 10-11.

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