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Digest of Other White House Announcements

December 15, 1978

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.

December 9

The President announced the members of the delegation to the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. They are:

MRS. LILLIAN CARTER, Personal Representative of the President;

CYRUS R. VANCE, U.S. Secretary of State;

MRS. CYRUS VANCE;

SAMUEL W. LEWIS, U.S. Ambassador to Israel;

MRS. SAMUEL W. LEWIS;

JACOB K. JAVITS, U.S. Senator from New York;

ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, U.S. Senator from Connecticut;

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, U.S. Senator from New York;

MURIEL HUMPHREY, U.S. Senator from Minnesota;

CLEMENT ZABLOCKI, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin;

SIDNEY R. YATES, U.S. Representative from Illinois;

LEE H. HAMILTON, U.S. Representative from Indiana;

CHARLES RANGEL, U.S. Representative from New York;

BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, U.S. Representative from New York;

STEPHEN J. SOLARZ, U.S. Representative from New York;

ALFRED L. ATHERTON, JR., Ambassador at Large;

HENRY A. KISSINGER, former U.S. Secretary of State;

ARTHUR GOLDBERG, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court;

HAROLD I-I. SAUNDERS, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State;

CARL LEVIN, U.S. Senator-elect from Michigan;

ROBERT GRAHAM, Governor-elect from Florida;

HENRY WALTER MAIER, mayor of Milwaukee;

EDMUND EDELMAN, supervisor, third district, Los Angeles County, Calif.;

SOL G. CHAIKIN, president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, New York City;

BISHOP JOSEPH G. COLES, presiding bishop of the Georgia Area Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Ga.;

IRWIN S. FIELD, national chairman, United Jewish Appeal, Los Angeles, Calif.;

CHARLOTTE JACOBSON, chairman, World Zionist Organization, American section, New York City;

MAX M. KAMPELMAN, attorney, Washington, D.C.;

ISAIAH L. KENEN, honorary chairman of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee and editor emeritus, "Near East Report," Washington, D.C.;

STANLEY LOWELL, attorney; immediate past chairman, National Conference on Soviet Jewry; former deputy mayor of New York City;

THEODORE MANN, president of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, Philadelphia;

GORDON A. MARTIN, JR., attorney, Boston;

RABBI ISRAEL MILLER, vice president of Yeshiva University, New York City;

SAM ROTHBERG, general chairman, Israel Bond Association, Peoria, Ill.;

RABBI HENRY SEIGMAN, executive director, American Jewish Congress, New York City;

MRS. REBECCA SHULMAN, former national president of Hadassah, New York City;

Mrs. ISAAC STERN, first vice president of the American Israel Cultural Foundation, New York City;

MARIE SYRKIN, professor emeritus of Brandeis University, now of Los Angeles, Calif.;

MRS. NELLIE WHITE, wife of John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Washington, D.C.;

WILLIAM WINN, president of the Retail Clerks International Association, Washington, D.C.;

MRS. HARRIET ZIMMERMAN, community leader, Atlanta, Ga.;

EDWARD SANDERS, senior adviser to the President and the Secretary of State.

December 10

The President and Mrs. Carter attended the world premiere of the film "Superman," which was shown at the Eisenhower Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with a benefit for the Special Olympics.

December 11

The President met at the White House with:

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

—the Cabinet;

—Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director, and members of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;

—Vice President Walter F. Mondale; —a group of administration officials to discuss the fiscal year 1980 budget;

—Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams.

December 12

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Vice President Mondale, Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, Hamilton Jordan, Assistant to the President, and Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mrs. Carter, for lunch;

—the Intergovernmental Task Force on Water Policy;

—former President Gerald R. Ford. The President declared a major disaster for the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning about December 7, which caused extensive public and private property damage.

December 13

The President met at the White House with Dr. Brzezinski. December 14

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Vice President Mondale, Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal, G. William Miller, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Federal Reserve System, James T. Mcintyre, Jr., Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers;

—the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of West Virginia as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning about December 7, which caused extensive public and private property damage.

December 15

The President met at the White House with:

—Vice President Mondale, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Dr. Brzezinski, and Mr. Jordan;

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—a group of administration officials to discuss the fiscal year 1980 budget;

—Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance. The President received the report of Emergency Board No. 188, which was appointed on September 28 by Executive Order 12085.

The President greeted guests attending the 30th wedding anniversary dinner for Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Davis, Jr., in the State Dining Room at the White House. The Davises are the parents of Annette Carter, the President's daughter-in-law.

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

Jimmy Carter, Digest of Other White House Announcements Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/244249

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