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Digest of Other White House Announcements

January 03, 1997

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

December 30

In the morning, the President and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton traveled to Hilton Head, SC, where they attended the annual Renaissance Weekend. In the evening, the President attended a dinner honoring retired Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., at the Hilton hotel.

January 1

In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority to express condolences on the attack on civilians by an off-duty Israeli soldier in Hebron, West Bank.

In the afternoon, the President and Hillary and Chelsea Clinton traveled to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, for a vacation.

January 2

The President named the winners of the 1996 National Medal of Arts and the Charles Frankel Prize in the Humanities. He and the First Lady will present the awards on January 9 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, in Washington, DC.

The recipients of the National Medal of Arts are: Edward Albee, Sarah Caldwell, Harry Callahan, Zelda Fichandler, Eduardo (Lalo) Guerrero, Lionel Hampton, Bella Lewitzky, Vera List, Robert Redford, Maurice Sendak, Stephen J. Sondheim, and the Boys Choir of Harlem.

The recipients of the Frankel Prize in the Humanities are: Rita Dove, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Daniel Kemmis, Arturo Madrid, and Bill Moyers.

Released January 3

The President declared a major disaster in Nevada and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, mud and land slides beginning on December 20, 1996, and continuing.

William J. Clinton, Digest of Other White House Announcements Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/223993

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