[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 40 (Monday, October 8, 2001)]
[Pages 1423-1424]
[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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September 30

    In the afternoon, the President returned from Camp David, MD, to the 
White House.

October 1

    In the morning, the President had separate telephone conversations 
with President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and Prime Minister 
Mahathir bin Mohamad of Malaysia. Also in the morning, the President met 
with his National Security Council.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Sichan Siv to be 
U.S. Representative to the Economic and Social Council of the United 
Nations, with the rank of Ambassador.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife 
Center: Neal McCaleb, Maureen Patricia Cragin, Sonya E. Medina, and 
Frances P. Mainella.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the Board of Directors of the Presidio Trust: 
Donald G. Fisher, Tony Rosenblatt, an Mary G. Murphy.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Robert R. Reilly as 
Director of the Voice of America.

October 2

    In the morning, the President met with his National Security 
Council. Later, the President traveled to Arlington, VA, and then 
returned to Washington, DC.
    In the evening, the President had dinner with Mayor Anthony A. 
Williams of Washington, DC, at Morton's Steakhouse.
    The President announced his intention to nominate John B. Brown III 
to be Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration at the 
Department of Justice.
    The President announced his intention to nominate William Leidinger 
to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Management.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Cameron R. Hume to 
be Ambassador to South Africa.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Frederick W. 
Schieck to be Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International 
Development.

October 3

    In the morning, the President traveled to New York City, NY.
    In the afternoon, he met and had lunch with Gov. George E. Pataki of 
New York, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York City, and firefighters 
of New York City's Engine Co. 55. Later, he returned to Washington, DC.
    The White House announced that the President will meet with 
President Vicente Fox of Mexico on October 4.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Charles S. Shapiro 
to be Ambassador to Venezuela.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the newly created President's Commission on 
Excellence in Special Education: Terry Edward Branstad, Adela Acosta, 
Steve Bartlett, Paul C. Butterfield, Jay G. Chambers, W. Alan Coulter, 
Thomas Albert Flemming, Jack M. Fletcher, Douglas H. Gill, David W. 
Gordon, Nancy S. Grasmick, Bryan C. Hassel, Douglas Carl Huntt, Michael 
J. Rivas, Cheryl Rei Takemoto, and Katie Wright. The President also 
announced his intention to appoint the following individuals as ex 
officio members of the Commission: Elizabeth Ann Bryan, Edward Sontag, 
Robert Pasternack, Reid Lyon, and Wade F. Horn.

October 4

    In the morning, the President had separate telephone conversations 
with Amir Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain and President Aleksander 
Kwasniewski of Poland concerning cooperation against terrorism.

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    In the afternoon, the President had a lunch meeting with Members of 
Congress to discuss his administration's domestic agenda.
    The President announced his intention to nominate R. Alex Acosta to 
be a member of the National Labor Relations Board.
    The President announced his intention to nominate Richard S. 
Williams to be Alternate U.S. Representative for Special Political 
Affairs to the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador.

October 5

    In the morning, the President had separate telephone conversations 
with Prime Minister Zenawi Meles of Ethiopia and President Daniel T. 
Arap Moi of Kenya concerning cooperation against terrorism. Later, the 
President met with his National Security Council.
    In the afternoon, the President met in the Oval Office with 
President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia. Later, the President went to 
Camp David, MD.
    The White House announced that the President signed H.R. 2510, the 
``Defense Production Act Amendments of 2001,'' which extends the Defense 
Production Act of 1950 through September 30, 2003, and the authorization 
of appropriations for that Act.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory 
Board: Brent Scowcroft; Cresencio S. Arcos; Jim Barksdale; Robert 
Addsion Day; Stephen Friedman; Alfred Lerner; Ray Lee Hunt; Rita E. 
Hauser; David E. Jeremiah; Arnold Lee Kantner; James Calhoun Langdon, 
Jr.; Marie Elizabeth Pate-Cornell; John Harrison Streicker; Peter Barton 
Wilson; and Phillip David Zelikow.