    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 12 (Monday, March 22, 2004)]
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                  WEEKLY COMPILATION OF
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                  PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS

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    Weekly Compilation of

    Presidential

    Documents

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    Monday, March 22, 2004

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    Volume 40_Number 12
    Pages 403	436

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     Contents

     Addresses and Remarks

        See also Meetings With Foreign Leaders
        Health care access, discussion--415
        Kentucky, military personnel at Fort Campbell--425
        Operation Iraqi Freedom, anniversary--430
        Pennsylvania, discussion on homeownership in Ardmore--409
        Radio address--408
        Saint Patrick's Day shamrock presentation ceremony--424
        Walter Reed Army Medical Center, remarks after visiting wounded
            soldiers and their families--433

     Communications to Congress

        Azerbaijan, letter transmitting report on assistance--424
        Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States
            Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, letter on funding--403
        Czech Republic-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--403

     Communications to Congress--Continued

        Estonia-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--405
        Latvia-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--407
        Lithuania-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--406
        Poland-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--405
        Slovak Republic-U.S. Additional Protocol Amending the Reciprocal
            Encouragement and Protection of Investment Treaty, message
            transmitting--404

     Communications to Federal Agencies

        Delegation of Certain Authority Under the National Defense
            Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004, Public Law 108-136,
            memorandum--430

    (Continued on the inside of the back cover.)

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    Contents--Continued

     Executive Orders

        Amending Executive Order 13257 To Implement the Trafficking Victims
            Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003--428

    Interviews With the News Media

         Exchange with reporters in the Oval Office--413

    Letters and Messages

        Saint Patrick's Day, message--423

    Meetings With Foreign Leaders

        Ireland, Prime Minister Ahern--424
        Netherlands, Prime Minister Balkenende--413

    Supplementary Materials

         Acts approved by the President--436
         Checklist of White House press releases--435
         Digest of other White House announcements--434
         Nominations submitted to the Senate--435

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