Digest of Other White House Announcements

The following listing includes the President's daily schedule and other items of general interest as announced by the White House Press Office during the period covered by this issue. Events and announcements printed elsewhere in the issue are not included.

June 20

The President met at the White House with:

--Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;

--senior White House staff members;

--the Cabinet;

---Vice President Walter F. Mondale;

--a group of Senators and Congressmen, to discuss airline industry reform;

--Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers;

--Professor Joao Fernando Sobral, president, and Ulysses Buffington, international director, Lions International, and Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia;

--Kenneth M. Curtis, chairman of the Democratic National Committee;

--Peter B. Bensinger, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

June 21

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--the bipartisan congressional leadership;

--Senator Robert C. Byrd, majority leader of the Senate, and Representative Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Speaker of the House;

--a group of administration officials to review the budget for fiscal year 1979;

--W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury, Dr. Arthur F. Burns, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Dr. Schultze;

--Vice President Mondale, Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, and Dr. Brzezinski;

--Secretary of Defense Harold Brown;

--Max Cleland, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Mr. Lance, Suzanne H. Woolsey, Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget for Human and Community Affairs, Jack H. Watson, Jr., Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy.

The White House announced that the President has accorded Leon Sloss, an Assistant Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the personal rank of Ambassador while serving as the U.S. Representative to the Seabed Arms Control Treaty Review Conference, to be held in Geneva from June 20 to July 1.

The White House announced that the President has sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Menahem Begin of Israel. The message included an invitation for the Prime Minister to pay an official working visit to the United States. The invitation was accepted for July 19 and 20.

June 22

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--members of the House Ways and Means Committee;

--John C. West, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

The White House announced the President's intention to cut back on the White House helicopter fleet by 38 percent in order to save the taxpayers an estimated $2 million per year. To achieve this savings, the President is eliminating five of the aircraft from the present fleet of thirteen. The aircraft are to be returned to the Defense Department inventory.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1976 annual report of the U.S. Civil Service Commission.

June 23

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--a group of Democratic Senators;

--Mayor Coleman A. Young of Detroit, Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, Lt. Gov. James L. Damman of Michigan, Thomas A. Murphy, Chairman of the board of the General Motors Corp., and Mr. Watson;

--Mr. Lance;

--a group of administration officials to discuss the reorganization of the executive branch;

--a group of administration officials to review the budget for fiscal year 1979;

--Representative Robert C. Krueger of Texas.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1976 annual report of the President on the Trade Agreements Program.

June 24

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Representative Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia;

--Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, president of the North Atlantic Assembly;

--Dr. Schultze;

--Vice President Mondale, Admiral Turner, and Dr. Brzezinski;

--Representative James C. Wright, Jr., of Texas;

--Rev. William D. Johnson, Jr., editor and manager of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review in Atlanta, Ga.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Virgilio Barco of Colombia, Abdelaziz Maoui of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, and Ali Bengelloun of the Kingdom of Morocco.

The White House Press Office made available copies of the President and Mrs. Carter's income tax returns for 1976.