Digest of Other White House Announcements Week Ending Friday,
May 13, 1977

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.

May 6

Following his visit to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, the President, accompanied by Prime Minister James Callaghan, toured the Corning Limited glass factory in Sunderland and Washington Old Hall, the ancestral home of George Washington in the village of Washington, County of Tyne and Wear. After his tour of the Old Hall, the President went to the Village Green, where he planted a tulip poplar tree brought from Mount Vernon, Va.

May 7

While in London, the President met separately at Winfield House with:
—Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the Federal Republic of Germany;
—Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda of Japan;
—Margaret Thatcher, Member of Parliament and Conservative Party leader.

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

May 8

While in London, the President attended a communion service at Westminster Abbey. Following the service, the President toured the Abbey.

The President met at Winfield House with Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti of Italy.

May 9

While in London, the President met with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France at the residence of the French Ambassador to Great Britain.

While in Geneva, the President met with President Kurt Furgler of Switzerland at the Intercontinental Hotel.

May 10

While in London, the President held separate meetings at Winfield House with:
—Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis of Greece;

—Prime Minister Leo Tindemans of Belgium;
—Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel of Turkey.

While in London, the President held separate meetings at Lancaster House with:
—President Antonio dos Santos Ramalho Eanes of Portugal;
—Prime Minister Odvar Nordli of Norway;
—Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen of Denmark;
—Prime Minister Johannes den Uyl of the Netherlands;
—Prime Minister Gaston Thorn of Luxembourg.

In the evening, the President returned to Washington.

May 12

The President met at the White House with:
—Zbigniew Brzezinski, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
—senior White House staff members; —the Democratic congressional leadership;
—Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., Speaker, and several Members .of the House of Representatives;
—Adm. Stansfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, and Dr. Brzezinski;
—Vice President Walter F. Mondale, Speaker O’Neill, and Senators John Sparkman, Hubert H. Humphrey, Frank Church, Jacob K. Javits, and Richard Stone of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to discuss the arms transfer restraint policy of the United States;
—Arnold Miller, president, and William Cottrell, international representative of the United Mine Workers;
—Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles County Supervisor, Robert Bush, senior deputy to Mr. Hahn, and Joseph M. Pollard, legislative consultant to the County of Los Angeles;
—Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
—Charles L. Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

May 13

The President met at the White House with:
—Dr. Brzezinski;
—Vice President Mondale, Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, Dr. Brzezinski, Admiral Turner, members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and several administration officials, to discuss U.S. intelligence activities;
—Robert F. Goheen, U.S. Ambassador to India;
—Mrs. Carter, for lunch;
—Mike Abrams, chairman of the Dade County (Fla.) Democratic Executive Committee; Alfredo G. Duran, chairman of the Democratic Party of Florida; Sergio Bendixen, Democratic national committeeman for Florida; and Clyde Pedeway, director of youth street workers, James E. Scott Community Association, Miami, Fla.;
—Vice President Mondale, Dr. Brzezinski, and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Pierre Toura Gaba of the Republic of Chad, Hamad Abdel Rahman Al Madfa of the United Arab Emirates, Yong Shik Kim of the Republic of Korea, and Arun Panupong of the Kingdom of Thailand.

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