[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 38, Number 50 (Monday, December 16, 2002)]
[Pages 2164-2165]
[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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December 7

    In the morning, the President had intelligence briefings. Later, he 
traveled to Camp David, MD.

December 8

    In the afternoon, the President returned to Washington, DC.
    In the evening, the President and Mrs. Bush attended the Kennedy 
Center Honors ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts.

December 9

    In the morning, the President had intelligence and FBI briefings. 
Later, in the Oval Office, he met with President Emomali Rahmonov of 
Tajikistan.
    In an afternoon ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received 
diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Lapologang Caesar Lekoa of 
Botswana, Amadou Lamine Ba of Senegal, Pedro Manuel dos Reis Alves 
Catarino of Portugal, Ivan Vujacic of Yugoslavia, Antoine Ntamobwa of 
Burundi, Roberto Danino Zapata of Peru, Antonio Arenales Forno of 
Guatemala, Helgi Agustsson of Iceland, and Jean-David Levitte of France.
    Later in the afternoon, in the Oval Office, the President met with 
Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and 
Negotiations: Margaret Cushing Whitman; Steven Rollie Rogel; Frank Henry 
Habicht II; Jerome Jasinowski; William Frenzel; Rodolphe Vallee; Bernard 
Aronson; Edward Emma; Jill Considine; Wythe Willey; Edward Perkins; 
Richard Rivera; Pete Hanna; John Rowland; Jean-Pierre Rosso; Hersh 
Kozlov; Samuel Palmisano; JoAnn Brouillette; Herbert Johnson; Hector 
Ruiz; Melinda Bush; Richard Wardrop, Jr.; Grace Nichols; Larry Liebenow; 
Michael Goldstein; Thomas Mottola; George Fitch; Luis Lauredo; James 
Winston Morrison; Walter Bernard Duffy Hickey, Jr.; Robert Edward Grady; 
and Morgan Yaping Wang.
    The President declared a major disaster in Guam and ordered Federal 
aid to supplement Territory and local recovery efforts in the area 
struck by Super Typhoon Pongsona beginning on December 8 and continuing.

December 10

    In the morning, the President had intelligence and FBI briefings. 
Later, in the Oval Office, he met with President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula 
da Silva of Brazil.
    The President announced the appointment of David G. Leitch as Deputy 
Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President.
    The President announced his intention to appoint Richard B. Gasaway 
as a member of the Medal of Valor Review Board for Firefighting.
    The President announced his intention to appoint George Stuart Yount 
as U.S. Representative on the Governing Board of the Tahoe Regional 
Planning Agency.

December 11

    In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with 
Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark, President of the 
European Union, to express his support for Turkey's aspirations to join 
the EU. He then had intelligence and FBI briefings. Later, he 
participated in an interview and White House tour with journalist 
Barbara Walters for broadcast on December 13 on ABC's ``20/20'' 
television program.
    In the afternoon, the President met with Secretary of Agriculture 
Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton, and Chairman 
James Connaughton of the Council on Environmental Quality to discuss 
implementation of the President's Healthy Forests Initiative to reduce 
the threat of wildfire in the western States. Later, he attended a 
diplomatic corps holiday reception at Blair House.
    The President announced his intention to appoint the following 
individuals as members of the President's Commission on the U.S.

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Postal Service: James A. Johnson and Harry Pearce (Co-Chairmen); Richard 
C. Levin; Norman I. Seabrook; Carolyn L. Gallagher; Robert S. Walker; 
Joseph R. Wright; Don V. Cogman; and Dionel E. Aviles.
    The President declared a major disaster in the Northern Mariana 
Islands and ordered Federal aid to supplement Commonwealth and local 
recovery efforts in the area struck by Super Typhoon Pongsona beginning 
on December 8 and continuing.

December 12

    In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with 
President Ricardo Lagos of Chile to discuss the Chile-U.S. free trade 
agreement that was signed on December 11. He then had intelligence and 
FBI briefings. Later, he traveled to Philadelphia, PA, where he went to 
Bright Hope Baptist Church to meet with participants in the Amachi 
Mentoring Program for children of prisoners.
    In the afternoon, the President returned to Washington, DC. Later, 
he dropped by a meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council at 
the White House.
    During the day, the President had a telephone conversation with 
Senator Trent Lott to discuss the Senator's December 6 remarks at a 
100th birthday celebration for Senator Strom Thurmond.
    The President declared a major disaster in North Carolina and 
ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in 
the area struck by a severe ice storm on December 4-6.

December 13

    In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with 
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea to discuss South Korea-U.S. 
relations, the situation in North Korea, and President Bush's regrets 
concerning the June 13 deaths of two South Korean girls, Shim Mi-Sun and 
Shin Hyo-Son, as a result of an accident during a U.S. military training 
exercise in Seoul, South Korea. President Bush then had intelligence and 
FBI briefings.
    In the afternoon, the President traveled to Camp David, MD.
    The White House announced that the President will travel to Africa 
on January 10-17, 2003, where he will open the second U.S.-Sub-Saharan 
Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum (AGOA Forum) in Mauritius.