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.

April 30

The President met at the White House with:

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

--Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall, Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and other administration officials, to discuss welfare reform.

The President has declared an emergency for the State of Oregon because of the impact of a drought.

The President has declared a major disaster for the State of Tennessee as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning about April 4, which caused extensive public and private property damage.

May 2

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Frank B. Moore, Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison:

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal, Dr. Schultze, Bert Lance, Director, and James T. McIntyre, Jr., Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in a budget briefing.

--members of the Cabinet, the Congress, the White House staff, and other administration officials, to discuss the budget;

--Vice President Mondale.

The President greeted participants in the "Summer on the White House Lawn" picnic.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Louisiana as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning about April 20, which caused extensive public and private property damage.

The President has designated the following as members of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation:

C. FRED BERGSTEN, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs;

FRANK A. WEIL, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and International Business; and

JULIUS L. KATZ, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.

The President greeted Philip H. Alston, Jr., at his swearing in as U.S. Ambassador to Australia in the Roosevelt Room.

May 3

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--the Democratic congressional leadership;

--Brock Adams, Secretary of Transportation, Douglas M. Costle, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Charles H. Warren, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality;

--representatives of CBS, Inc., who presented him with the CBS record album of the 1977 Inaugural Concert;

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

--Mrs. Carter, Robert Strauss, Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, Terrence A. Todman, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Dr. Brzezinski, and the Ambassadors from the following sugar producing countries: Costa Rica, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago.

The White House announced that William H. Cable, of Rockford, Ill., has been named Deputy Assistant for Congressional Liaison.

The President has designated the Chief Delegate, Delegates, and Alternate Delegates from the United States to the Thirtieth World Health Assembly, being held in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 2 to May 20. They are:

Chief Delegate

S. PAUL EHRLICH, JR., M.D., Director, Office of International Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare;

Delegates

LEE M. HOWARD, M.D. (Alternate Chief Delegate), Director, Office of Health, Agency for International Development; and

WILLIAM H. FOEGE, M.D., Assistant Director for Operations, Communicable Disease Center, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare;

Alternate Delegates

ROBERT F. ANDREW, Director, Directorate for Health and Drug Control, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State;

GEORGE I. LYTHCOTT, M.D., associate vice chancellor for the health sciences, Center for Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin; and

ROGER A. SORENSON, American charge d'affaires ad interim, U.S. Mission to the European Office of the United Nations, Geneva.

May 4

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Representative Thomas L. Ashley, chairman, and members of the House Select Committe on Energy;

--Secretary Califano, Secretary Marshall, W. Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury, Juanita M. Kreps, Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Lance, and Stuart E. Eizenstat, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy;

--Mr. Lance.

The President has designated Lee R. West as Acting Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, effective May 1, 1977.

May 5

The President declared an emergency for the State of Idaho because of the impact of a drought.

In the morning, the President left the White House for a trip to Newcastle and London, England, and Geneva, Switzerland.