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.

November 27

The President returned to the White House after spending the Thanksgiving weekend at Camp David, Md.

November 28

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 State Cyrus R. Vance, and Dr. Brzezinski;

--the Cabinet;

--Secretary of the Interior Cecil D. Andrus, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland, Secretary of the Army Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., and Lt. Gen. John W. Morris, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, to discuss dam safety inspection;

--Vice President Mondale;

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary Vance, and Dr. Brzezinski;

--James T. Mcintyre, Jr., Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

November 29

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--the Democratic congressional leadership;

--Representative Charles E. Bennett of Florida;

--Dr. Abdul Halim Mahmoud, Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, an Islamic university in Egypt;

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

--Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal and Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers;

--Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall.

November 30

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Secretary of Defense Harold Brown and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

--a group of administration officials to discuss the budget.

The White House announced that the President has asked Joan Mondale, wife of the Vice President, to be his personal representative at the commemoration of Finland's 60th anniversary of independence in Helsinki on December 5-6.

December 1

The President met at the White House with:

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Representative Ralph H. Metcalfe of Illinois;

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

--Secretary Califano, Representative James C. Corman, chairman, and members of the House Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation, which is considering welfare legislation;

--Mrs. Carter, for lunch.

The President attended a briefing on the Panama Canal treaties, given for staff members of the Senate in the State Dining Room.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 11th annual report on the Operation of the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965.

The White House announced that the President's foreign trip, postponed on November 7, will be divided into two parts. The first portion--visits to Poland, Iran, India, Saudi Arabia, France, and Belgium--will take place from December 29, 1977, to January 6, 1978. The second portion--visits to Brazil, Nigeria, and Venezuela--will take place sometime in the spring of 1978.

December 2

The President met at the White House with:

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary Vance, and Dr. Brzezinski;

--Dr. Brzezinski;

--Vice President Mondale, Secretary of Energy James R. Schlesinger, and a group of Members of the House of Representatives;

--Vice President Mondale and Dr.Schultze;

--Attorney General Griffin B. Bell;

--a group of administration officials to discuss the budget.

The White House announced that the United States will make available $2 million of disaster relief assistance for victims of the cyclone and tidal wave that devastated southeastern India last week, and that the President has expressed to the Indian Government his deepest personal concern about the tragic loss of human life there.

The President has appointed Richard A. Frank, Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as U.S. Commissioner on the International Whaling Commission.