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.

February 25

The President met at the White House with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

February 26

The President attended a concert at the White House by pianist Vladimir Horowitz.

February 27

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Frank B. Moore, Assistant to the

President for Congressional Liaison;

—the Cabinet;

—Secretary of Defense Harold Brown;

—Vice President Walter F. Mondale;

—U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young.

The President met with a group of State Governors in the Old Executive Office Building to discuss energy.

Prime Minister Menahem Begin has accepted the President's invitation to visit the United States for talks on the situation in the Middle East. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Begin will be in Washington from March 13 to March 16, and the Prime Minister is scheduled to meet with the President on the 14th and 15th.

February 28

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—Representative Walter Flowers Alabama;

—Senator Quentin N. Burdick Dakota;

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

—Senator Muriel Humphrey of Minnesota;

—Senator Robert B. Morgan and Coy. James B. Hunt, Jr., of North Carolina;

—Senator Clifford P. Hansen of Wyoming.

March 1

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia;

—Mrs. Carter, for lunch;

—Senator Wendell H. Ford of Kentucky;

—James T. Mcintyre, Jr., Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The President attended a briefing on government reorganization given by administration officials in the Cabinet Room for members of the Senate Government Operations Committee.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received the first sheet of Easter Seals, symbolizing the start of the 1978 Easter Seal Campaign, from Anthony Zidek, 5, of Wonder Lake, Ill., the National Easter Seal Poster Child.

March 2

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—Representative Ed Jones of Tennessee;

—Sam Brown, Director of ACTION;

—Paul C. Warnke, Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and chief arms control negotiator, to discuss the current state of SALT and other major arms control negotiations.

March 3

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—Senator Kaneaster Hodges, Jr., of Arkansas;

—Representative Dale Milford of Texas;

—a group of college editors and news directors (transcript will be printed next week);

—Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The President announced that he will nominate Assistant Secretary of Agriculture P. R. "Bobby" Smith to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation.

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