Digest of Other White House Announcements

The following listing includes the President's public schedule and other items of general interest announced by the White House Press Office and not included elsewhere in this issue.

April 19

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

April 20

The President amended a major disaster declaration for the State of Louisiana that was granted on April 9 as a result of severe storms and flooding which began on March 26.

The President declared major disasters for:

—the State of Mississippi as a result of severe storms, flooding, mudslides, tornadoes, and high winds, beginning on or about March 28, which caused extensive property damage;

—the State of Alabama as a result of severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding, beginning on or about April 12, which caused extensive property damage.

April 21

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Frank B. Moore, Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison;

—Richard F. Celeste, Director of the Peace Corps.

April 22

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri;

—Mr. Moore;

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

—representatives of women's organizations.

The President announced that he has appointed Byung H. Nam, of New York City, as a member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars. Nam, 57, is professor of education at Pace University in New York.

The White House announced that on June 24 it will sponsor a meeting with rural women as part of a process of consultation initiated in December 1979, when the President announced the small community and rural development policy.

April 23

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Carswell, Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, R. Robert Russell, Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, John P. White, Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Alfred E. Kahn, Advisor to the President on Inflation, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy, and Mr. Mcintyre;

—Mr. Moore;

—a delegation from the United Methodist Conference;

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

—Barbara Tuchman, selected as the 1980 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities;

—a group of Democratic Congressmen from agricultural States, to discuss farm issues and the economy.

April 24

The President met at the White House with:

—Dr. Brzezinski;

—senior members of the House and Senate conference committee on the Federal Trade Commission reauthorization legislation;

—Shimon Peres, chairman of the Israeli Labor Party;

—Mr. Moore;

—representatives of the metal and metal products industries;

—Vice President Mondale;

—a group of Hispanic leaders, to discuss the administration's anti-inflation program;

—William Faust, majority leader of the Michigan State Senate.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Barry Bertrand Lucas Auguste of Saint Lucia, Reginald Lightbourn Wood of the Bahamas, Serge Elie Charles of Haiti, Cecilia Mildred Nana Tau of Lesotho, Francisco Aquino Herrera of El Salvador, and Yoshio Okawara of Japan.

April 25

The President met at the White House with:

—Vice President Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Deputy Secretary of Defense W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher, Hamilton Jordan, Assistant to the President, Lloyd N. Cutler, Counsel to the President, and Dr. Brzezinski;

—Mr. Moore;

—a bipartisan group of congressional leaders, to discuss the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran;

—leaders of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.