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Digest of Other White House Announcements

January 31, 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.

January 25

In the evening, the President and Hillary Clinton attended the Alfalfa Club dinner in the ballroom of the Capital Hilton Hotel.

January 26

In the evening, the President hosted a Super Bowl party in the Family Theater at the White House. After the game, he placed a telephone call to the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers.

January 29

The White House announced that the President will meet at the White House with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel on February 13; Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority on March 3; President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on March 10; and King Hussein I of Jordan on March 18.

January 30

In the morning, the President had a telephone conversation with President Jacques Chirac of France concerning President Chirac's upcoming visit to Moscow.

The President announced his intention to appoint Paul P. Craig to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

The President released $39 million in previously appropriated emergency funds to the Interior Department for restoration of public facilities and lands damaged by natural disasters in 1996.

January 31

The White House announced that the President invited President Jose Maria Aznar of Spain to the United States for an official working visit in the last week of April.

The White House announced that Prime Minister Antonio Guterres of Portugal has accepted the President's invitation for an official working visit at the White House on April 3.

The President directed the Department of Health and Human Services to release $210 million in emergency Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds for States, tribes, and territories nationwide.

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/224614

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