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.

October 10

The President returned to the White House after a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

The President met at the White House with Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal, James T. Mcintyre, Jr., Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Laurence N. Woodworth, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy, to discuss tax reform.

October 11

The President met at the White House with:

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

--Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and Senators Clifford P. Case, Frank Church, Alan Cranston, James O. Eastland, Barry Goldwater, Daniel K. Inouye, Henry M. Jackson, Sam Nunn, John J. Sparkman, John C. Stennis, and Ted Stevens, to discuss the Panama Canal treaties;

--Members of Congress from Pennsylvania to discuss economic conditions in the Delaware Valley;

--officers of the National Association of Counties;

--Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris.

October 12

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--the Democratic congressional leadership;

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

--Vice President Mondale;

--Mr. Mcintyre.

The President attended a briefing on the Panama Canal treaties, given for State officials and business and political leaders from Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Minnesota in the State Dining Room.

October 13

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Mrs. Carter, for lunch;

--Kenneth M. Curtis, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The President met with representatives of the Young Presidents' Organization, Inc., who were meeting with administration officials in the Old Executive Office Building.

The President attended the White House Conference on Steel, which was chaired by Ambassador Robert S. Strauss, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, in the Roosevelt Room. Participants included representatives from the steel industry, organized labor, manufacturers, economists, environmentalists, consumer groups, Members of Congress from steel-producing States, and White House and other administration officials.

The President and Mrs. Carter hosted a barbecue supper on the South Lawn for 500 members of the "Peanut Brigade," a group of Georgians who campaigned for Mr. Carter beginning with the early 1976 primary campaigns for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

October 14

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance and Dr. Brzezinski;

--a group of Congressmen from Western States to discuss water policy;

--Dr. Schultze;

--a group of editors, publishers, and broadcasters (transcript will be printed next week);

--Ambassador Strauss.

The President attended a reception for members of the Finance Council of the Democratic National Committee in the State Dining Room.

The President announced that he has accorded Patricia Derian the personal rank of Ambassador while serving as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the International Conference of the Red Cross, to be held at Bucharest, Romania, from October 15 to October 21.

The President announced that he will nominate George H. Aldrich for the rank of Ambassador while serving as the Deputy Special Representative for the Law of the Sea Conference and Deputy Chief of Delegation.

The White House issued a correction concerning the October 7 press release on the nomination of Theodore M. Hesburgh for the rank of Ambassador while serving as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology_ Development '(see page 1751). The release stated that the conference will be held in Geneva in 1979. In fact, no decision has been made on where the conference will be held.