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.

August 13

The President met at the White House with William G. Hyland, senior staff member of the National Security Council.

August 14

The President met at the White House with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who reported on his trip to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Israel for discussions of the Middle East situation, and also his visit to London for talks concerning southern Africa.

August 15

The President met at the White House with:

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

--Hobson R. Reynolds, Grand Exalted Ruler, and representatives of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World, who presented the President with the Elijah Lovejoy Award and also named him the first recipient of the organization's Benjamin Franklin Howard Award;

--Alan S. Boyd, the President's Special Representative to negotiations for a United States-United Kingdom air services agreement;

--former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger;

--Bert Lance, Director, and James T. Mcintyre, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget;

--Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall and G. William Miller, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Textron and chairman of the President's Committee on HIRE;

--Matthew Brown, National Muscular Dystrophy Poster Child.

The President telephoned former President Gerald R. Ford in Vail, Colo., to discuss the Panama Canal agreement in principle. The President has asked Ambassador Sol M. Linowitz and Gen. George S. Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to meet with the former President in Vail to brief him on the agreement.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1976 annual report of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The President left the White House for a stay at Camp David, Md.

August 17

The President met at Camp David with Secretary Vance and Dr. Brzezinski for a general foreign policy discussion with emphasis on the Secretary's forthcoming trip to the People's Republic of China.

August 18

The President transmitted to the Congress the seventh annual report on Hazardous Materials Control, prepared by the Department of Transportation.

The President returned to Washington to take part in a news conference by Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and then returned to Camp David, Md.