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.

September 24

The President sent a letter, dated today, to Bert Lance, accepting his resignation as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. In a letter to James T. Mcintyre, Jr., also dated today, the President officially designated Mr. McIntyre as Acting Director of the Office.

September 26

The President met at the White House with:

--David L. Aaron, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;

--senior White House staff members;

--the Cabinet;

--Vice President Walter F. Mondale;

--Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan;

--Robert A. Frosch, Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The President briefly attended a party for Mr. Lance in Mr. Lance's office in the Old Executive Office Building.

The President transmitted to the Congress the ninth annual report on the administration of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968.

The White House announced that Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore will visit the United States from October 4 until mid-October. During his official stay in Washington, the Prime Minister will meet with the President on October 7.

September 27

The President met at the White House with:

--Mr. Aaron;

--the Democratic congressional leaders;

--Representative Robert N. C. Nix of Pennsylvania;

--Vice President Mondale, Mr. Aaron, and Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence;

--Prime Minister Datuk Hussein bin Onn of Malaysia;

--Representative Henry S. Reuss of Wisconsin;

--Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director, and members of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People;

--Representative Edward I. Koch of New York and Bess Myerson, consumer consultant, Bristol-Myers Co., New York, N.Y.;

--Barry Jagoda, Special Assistant to the President for Media and Public Affairs, and White House staff members, to discuss public broadcasting legislation;

--A. A. Groniyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

September 28

The President met at the White House with:

--Mr. Aaron;

--Mrs. Carter, for lunch;

--members of the Commission on Federal Paperwork, who presented the Commission's final report.

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

The President announced that he will nominate Carolyn R. Payton to be Director of the Peace Corps. Ms. Payton was nominated to be Associate Director of ACTION on September 7.

September 29

The President met at the White House with:

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

--a group of Republican Members of the House of Representatives from Midwest and Western States;

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal, Arthur F. Burns, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Mr. McIntyre;

--representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America who were meeting with administration officials in the Roosevelt Room.

September 30

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Senators Robert C. Byrd, Henry M. Jackson, John C. Stennis, and Howard H. Baker, Jr., to discuss the progress of the SALT negotiations;

--a group of eight Republican Senators;

--a group of approximately 100 Members of Congress to discuss appropriations for international financial institutions;

--Edvard Kardelj, Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia;

--Representative George H. Mahon of Texas;

--members of the Newspaper Farm Editors of America (transcript will be printed next week);

--Lloyd Klabunde and family, of Emmet, N. Dak., the Farm Family of the Year;

--Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger;

--the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States for their traditional White House visit, marking the opening of the Court's new term.

The President left the White House for a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.