1982 Public Papers of the President - Appendix A

Digest of Other White House Announcements
The following list includes the President's public schedule and other items of general interest announced by the Office of the Press Secretary and not included elsewhere in the Public Papers of the President.

January 2, 1982
While at the residence of Walter and Lenore Annenberg in Palm Springs, Calif., the President spoke by telephone with the Vice President and Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III following the meeting of the Special Situation Group in Washington. They discussed the situation in Poland and other foreign policy matters.

In the afternoon, the President met with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., for a general discussion of foreign policy matters. Following that meeting, the President and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.,  were joined by Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark and Assistant to the President Michael K. Deaver for a discussion of the upcoming visit of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of the Federal Republic of Germany to Washington.

January 3, 1982
The President left Palm Springs, Calif., and returned to the White House.

January 4, 1982
The President held meetings at the White House with members of the White House staff.

January 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

The White House announced that the President has accepted, with deep regret, the resignation of Jacob Stein as Special Adviser to the White House.

January 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Productivity Advisory Committee;
-- Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block.

The White House announced that the President received a preliminary report on the disasters caused by weather in California and other States. The President expressed serious concern about the impact of flooding and severe weather that is causing sudden and unexpected hardship and suffering on the part of the people. He has directed the Federal Government to be able to move with dispatch and is prepared to give urgent consideration to appeals for Federal disaster relief.

January 7, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- his economic and budget advisers, including Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, David A. Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Murray L. Weidenbaum, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and members of the White House staff, to discuss the 1983 budget;
-- Pete Schabarum, chairman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors;
-- Governor Victor Atiyeh of Oregon;
-- Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Negotiations, who is returning to Geneva for the negotiations with the Soviet Union, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, and Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
-- the Cabinet, for an overview of the past year and the current year, a discussion of the budget, and an update on the situation in Poland.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of California as a result of severe storms, mudslides, high tides, and flooding beginning on December 19, 1981, which caused extensive property damage.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Mohamed Siad Barre of the Somali Democratic Republic to visit Washington and meet with him at the White House on March 11. They are expected to discuss bilateral relations as well as other matters of mutual interest.

January 8, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- his budget and economic advisers to discuss the 1983 budget;
-- Adm. Hyman G. Rickover;
-- Walter L. Cutler, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, and W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, prior to their departure for their overseas posts;
-- the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade to discuss the auto industry.

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

January 10, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

January 11, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Vice President, Secretary of Health and Human Services Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Transportation Drew L. Lewis, and members of the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures;
-- Republican leaders of the House of Representatives;
-- Governors Bill Clements of Texas and David C. Treen of Louisiana, to discuss natural gas deregulation.

The President attended a reception for members of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace on the State Floor of the White House.

The President granted a recess appointment to Kenneth E. Moffett as Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

January 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senior Policy Adviser Melvin L. Bradley and Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic Policy Thaddeus Garrett, to discuss the Internal Revenue Service policy on tax exemptions for private educational facilities;
-- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., to discuss the Internal Revenue Service policy on tax exemptions for private educational facilities;
-- Governor Carlos Romero Barcello of Puerto Rico, the Vice President, Commissioner Baltasar Corrada, Mayor Hernan Padilla of San Juan, P.R., and former Governor Luis Ferre of Puerto Rico;
-- Senators Robert Dole of Kansas, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., of Maryland, and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, and Representative Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., to discuss the Internal Revenue Service policy on tax exemptions for private educational facilities;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss Federal labor-management relations.

January 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

In an Oval Office ceremony, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Dauda Sulaiman Kamara of Sierra Leone, Thomas Klestil of Austria, and Paul Pondi of Cameroon.

The President announced the appointment of E. Pendleton James, Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel, as a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.

January 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources;
-- Republican leaders of the Senate.

January 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

In the evening, the President attended the Touchdown Club awards dinner at the Sheraton Washington Hotel.

January 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- John Erickson, national chairman, Fellowship of Christian Athletes;
-- Mike Mansfield, U.S. Ambassador to Japan;
-- Shintaro Abe, Minister of International Trade and Industry of Japan.

January 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

January 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Charles Z. Wick, Robert Gray, and Charles Hagel, who presented the President with his copy of the Satellite Inaugural Balls Book on behalf of the 1981 Presidential Inaugural Committee;
-- John Walsh, director of Project HOPE's pharmaceutical drug relief program for Poland, who is leaving today for Poland with a team of physicians, nurses, and technicians;
-- a group of administration officials for a meeting on the economic recovery program, including details of the budget and the State of the Union message.

William P. Clark, Deputy Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, announced the President's appointment of Robert C. McFarlane as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

January 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
-- Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., and a bipartisan group of local elected officials to discuss urban affairs, including Federal, State, and local efforts regarding urban redevelopment and the enterprise zone concept and tax incentives for revitalizing blighted and distressed areas;
-- the National Security Council.

The White House announced that the President and Mrs. Reagan will travel to Barbados for the Easter holiday. During their stay, the President will meet with Prime Minister Tom Adams. He is also expected to meet with leaders of other East Caribbean countries. The visit is the result of a longstanding invitation from their good friend, Claudette Colbert, who resides on the island.

January 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, and Representative Charles F. Dougherty of Pennsylvania, members of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus;
-- a group of leaders of pro-life organizations to discuss the abortion issue;  
-- Franklyn C. (Lyn) Nofziger, who has resigned as Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, for a farewell visit.

The President announced his intention to designate James Eugene Burnett, Jr., as Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

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

January 24, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

January 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senator Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., of Maryland;
-- a group of small business owner-operators.

The President asked the Congress to consider a request for additional appropriation language for the fiscal year 1982 for the Department of Agriculture.

January 26, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;  
-- Republican congressional leaders;
-- the Cabinet, for a luncheon meeting on the State of the Union address.

January 27, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and members of the Clemson University football team.

January 28, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Mayor Margaret Hance of Phoenix, Ariz.;
-- a group of black Republican leaders;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs;
-- Ephraim Evron, who is leaving his post as Israeli Ambassador to the United States and returning to Israel, for a farewell visit;
-- the National Security Council;
-- representatives of the National Conference of Republican Mayors and Local Elected Officials;
-- members of the Special Medical Advisory Group of the Veterans Administration.

January 29, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, and Peter V. Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee;
-- John Jacob, president of the National Urban League;
-- Senator John G. Tower of Texas.

The President transmitted to the Congress a report on the Non-Aligned Countries' communique of September 1981.

The White House announced that the President will travel to Europe in June to participate in meetings with other heads of government and for an audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Mrs. Reagan will accompany the President. The President will travel to Versailles at the invitation of President Mitterrand to attend the economic summit on June 4 - 6. In addition to the President and President Mitterrand, there will be heads of government or state from Canada, Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, as well as the President of the Commission of the European Community. The summit representatives will come together primarily to discuss shared economic concerns. The President will then visit Rome on June 7 at the invitation of the Italian Government. He will have an audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II. The trip will conclude with the President's attendance at a NATO summit. President Reagan views this meeting as an opportunity for the North Atlantic Alliance to shape its response to this decade's challenges.

February 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of Governors, Members of Congress, and State legislators, to discuss federalism.

The President asked the Congress to consider a request for supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1982 in the amount of $2,290,490,000 for the Department of Labor. The White House announced that the purpose of the request is to assure that unemployed workers will continue to receive the unemployment insurance benefits due under law, and that the supplemental appropriations are required primarily because the unemployment rate has risen to a level higher than the rate that was assumed at the current appropriations level.

February 2, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- participants in the Senate Youth Program;
-- James D. Theberge, U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Gerald E. Thomas, U.S. Ambassador to Guyana, and John H. Reed, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, prior to their departure for their overseas posts;
-- members of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, for an early evening reception.

In accordance with the requirements of Section 381(c) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the President transmitted to the Congress the 1980 Annual Report on Federal Energy Conservation Programs.

The White House announced that Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, who will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Leo Tindemans, has accepted the President's invitation to visit Washington. Prime Minister Martens will be meeting with the President on February 17 both in his capacity as Belgian Prime Minister and as the current President of the European Community Council of Heads of Government.

February 3, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

February 4, 1982
In the morning, the President and Mrs. Reagan met in the Oval Office with the Italian Ambassador to the United States Rinaldo Petrignani and Mrs. Petrignani and Brigadier General and Mrs. James L. Dozier. General Dozier is Deputy Chief of Staff, Logistics and Administration, Allied Land Forces Southern Europe. He was kidnapped from his Verona, Italy, apartment on December 17, 1981, by members of the Red Brigade and rescued last week by an Italian anti-terrorist squad after 42 days of captivity.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth from representatives of the Boy Scouts of America. The President also received the organization's 1981 Annual Report to the Nation.

The President also met at the White House with:
-- the Vice President;
-- the National Security Council;
-- a group of labor leaders.

The President transmitted to the Congress the Tenth Annual Report on the Administration of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, in accordance with Section 211 of the Act. The report covers calendar year 1980.

February 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff; 
-- Senators John H. Chafee, Ernest F. Hollings, Pete V. Domenici, and Jake Garn, to discuss the federalism initiative;
-- members of the Agricultural Task Force, which was created by the U.S. Agency for International Development at the direction of the President following the Cancun summit talks; 
-- a group of U.S. Representatives, to discuss the federalism initiative; 
-- Preston Martin, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassador Nicolas Karandreas of Greece, Chitmansing Jesseransing of Maritius, Cedric Hilburn Grant of Guyana, and Julio Sanjines Goitia of Bolivia.

February 8, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the bipartisan congressional leadership;
-- Republican congressional leaders.

February 10, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

February 11, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff; 
-- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, and House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs to discuss housing and employment training;
-- the Vice President, for lunch;
-- members of the National Association of Counties and other county officials, to discuss the federalism initiative;
-- Roy Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters;
-- Gen. Jarl Wahlstrom, international leader of the Salvation Army.

The White House confirmed that Myer Rashish, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, submitted his resignation to the President, effective January 20.

The White House announced that President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo of Brazil has accepted President Reagan's personal invitation for a state visit to Washington, beginning on May 11. The visit will provide an opportunity for President Reagan and President Figueiredo to become acquainted personally and to exchange views on a broad range of bilateral, hemispheric, and global developments.

February 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- administration spokesmen;
-- Keith L. Brown, U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho, Michael H. Armacost, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, and Fred J. Eckert, U.S. Ambassador to Fiji, prior to their departure for their respective posts.

The White House announced that the President will visit London, England, and Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, during his trip to Europe in June. This is in addition to his attendance at the economic summit at Versailles, France, his visit to Rome, Italy, and his audience with His Holiness Pope John Paul II, which were announced on January 29. Mrs. Reagan will accompany the President. The President will visit the United Kingdom at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from June 7 to June 9. He will visit Bonn on June 10 to participate in a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the invitation of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.

The President announced that he has accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Richard Fairbanks in his capacity as Special Adviser to the Secretary of State.

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

February 14, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

February 15, 1982
The President held separate meetings at the White House with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger. Secretary Haig reported to the President on his trip to Europe and North Africa, and Secretary Weinberger reported on his recent trip to the Middle East. The President also attended a meeting with administration officials to discuss foreign policy issues.

The President also met at the White House with Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

February 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff; 
-- Maj. Gen. Evan Hultman, president of the Reserve Officers Association;
-- Jack Flynt, national commander of the American Legion;
-- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., to discuss housing.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Bernard Vernier-Palliez of France, Francisco Fiallos Navarro of Nicaragua, Franklin Baron of Dominica, and Moshe Arens of Israel.

The White House announced that the President requested Congress to provide an additional $283.3 million in fiscal year 1983 for the Department of Labor to fund more staff for State employment service offices. This request is an extension of the President's February 1 request to the Congress for a supplemental appropriation to provide an increase in staff for the employment service in 1982 over the level that could be supported under the continuing resolution. Taken together, these two requests will assure adequate staff to provide job-finding assistance to the unemployed and to administer the work search requirements for unemployment insurance claimants. This amended budget request would provide a 7,900 increase (from 13,900 to 21,800) in staff over the level provided in the 1983 budget.

February 17, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

February 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the board of directors of the National Association of Towns and Townships.

In accordance with Section 411(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2441), the President transmitted to the Congress the quarterly report on East-West trade covering the second quarter of 1981. The report discusses U.S. trade relations with the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the Eastern European countries.

February 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- representatives of Big Brothers/Big Sisters;
-- the National Security Council.

February 21, 1982
The President attended services at Christ Church in Alexandria, Va., as part of the observances of the 250th anniversary of the birth of George Washington.

February 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the executive committee of the George Washington Masonic Memorial Association;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President's emissary in consultations in the Middle East;
-- Governors attending the Washington, D.C., meeting of the National Governors' Association.

February 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and Republican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives, to discuss the fiscal year 1983 budget and the Caribbean Basin initiative;
-- representatives of the Capitol Historical Society; -- representatives of AMVETS (American Veterans of World War II, Korea & Vietnam), who presented the President with the organization's Gold Helmet Award;
-- Masumi Esaki, special trade representative from Japan;
-- the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture, to discuss agricultural export policies;
-- Governor Bill Clements of Texas.

The President transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a report prepared by the Department of State concerning international agreements.

February 24, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- bipartisan congressional leaders;
-- bipartisan congressional committee chairmen and ranking minority members.

February 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, to discuss the legislative agenda;
-- the Vice President, for lunch;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Members of Congress;
-- Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee;
-- the Cabinet.

February 26, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- pilots and paramedics of the U.S. Park Police Aviation Section, including Donald Usher and Gene Windsor, who were involved in the rescue efforts for the survivors of the Air Florida airplane crash in Washington, D.C., on January 13;
-- the National Security Council.

The President attended a dinner sponsored by the Conservative Political Action Conference, 1982, at the Mayflower Hotel.

March 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board;
-- members of the board of directors of the National League of Cities;
-- Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee;
-- former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, to discuss plans for Afghanistan Day.

The President designated Cathie A. Shattuck as Acting Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, effective March 4. She was nominated on December 8, 1981, to be a member of the Commission.

March 2, 1982
The President transmitted to the Congress the 14th annual report of the Department of Transportation.

The President left the White House for his trip to Wyoming, New Mexico, and California.

March 5, 1982
The White House announced that at the invitation of the President, President Francois Mitterrand of France will make a working visit to Washington on March 12. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., will participate in the discussions.

March 8, 1982
The President left his ranch, Rancho del Cielo, near Santa Barbara, Calif., and returned to the White House.

March 9, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The White House announced additional details of the President's visit to the Caribbean area in early April. On April 8, the President will meet with the Prime Minister of Barbados, J. M. G. Adams, and other Eastern Caribbean leaders to continue discussions of common problems facing countries concerned with the Caribbean region. In addition to the President's visit to Barbados, he will visit Jamaica on April 7 where he will meet with Prime Minister Edward Seaga, who was the first foreign leader to visit the President following his inauguration. Among other issues, they will discuss the activities of the United States Business Committee on Jamaica. Mrs. Reagan will accompany the President, and they will return to Washington on April 11.

March 10, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources.

In the evening, the President attended a performance of the Joffrey Ballet at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

March 11, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- President Mohamed Siad Barre of Somalia;
-- members of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, the National Conference of Black Mayors, and the National Association of Black County Officials;
-- Governor James A. Rhodes of Ohio.

In accordance with the requirements of Subtitle H of Title V of the Energy Security Act (42 U.S.C. 8286b), the President transmitted to the Congress the first annual report, covering calendar year 1980, on the Federal coordination of factors and data used in the development of building energy conservation standards. The report was prepared by the Department of Energy.

The President announced that the Vice President will travel to the Pacific area in late April and early May. The Vice President has accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to visit Australia for talks and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea and the 30th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty. The Vice President also has accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon to visit New Zealand for talks and to stress the importance of the ANZUS alliance. He will reaffirm the close ties of the United States with both countries. The Vice President will also make other stops on this trip, but the details have not yet been worked out.

March 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- chief executive officers of the Business Roundtable, including Clifton Garvin, Ruben Mettler, Robert Baldwin, Robert Kilpatrick, Theodore Brophy, and John Post.

The White House announced details of the previously announced visit to the United States of President Alessandro Pertini of Italy. The dates of the visit will be March 24 to April 1. President Pertini will meet with President Reagan on March 25 and be honored at a state dinner that evening.

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

March 14, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

March 17, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of leaders of the California beef cattle industry.

The White House announced that the President has designated Gerald P. Carmen, Administrator of General Services, as a member of the Property Review Board.

March 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Mexican Ambassador to the United States Hugo B. Margain;
-- Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President's emissary for consultations in the Middle East;
-- Bavarian Minister-President and CSU leader Franz-Josef Strauss of the Federal Republic of Germany;
-- Senators Howard H. Baker, Jr., and James A. McClure;
-- Representatives James T. Broyhill, Clarence J. Brown, and Tom Corcoran;
-- members of the Republican Congressional Leadership Council for an early evening reception.

In the afternoon, the President met with a group of black editors in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building.

The President asked the Congress to consider requests for supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1982 totaling $17.2 million for the following purposes:
-- $6.6 million for the Department of Education to meet the increased cost of Pell Grant application processing and to expand the validation procedures on these student assistance grant applications;
-- $8.3 million for the Department of the Treasury to fund an Anti-Crime Task Force which would operate in South Florida under the leadership of Vice President Bush;
-- $2.3 million for the Merit Systems Protection Board to meet the costs of processing and adjudicating Federal employee appeals on a timely basis and to meet the resulting increase in administrative costs.

March 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- representatives of the National Forest Products Association and National Association of Home Builders;
-- Adm. James Gracey, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.

The White House announced that the President will meet Bermudian Premier John W. D. Swan on March 22. The Premier will be making a private visit to Washington. This will be the first time President Reagan has met Premier Swan, who assumed office in January 1982.

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

March 20, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the State of Indiana as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on or about March 12, which caused extensive property damage.

March 21, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

The President spoke by telephone to space shuttle Columbia astronauts Jack R. Lousma and C. Gordon Fullerton in Cape Canaveral, Fla., prior to the March 22 launch of the shuttle's third flight.

March 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Vice President, Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, and members of congressional agricultural committees;
-- Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi of Japan;
-- members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Poison Prevention Week Council, to mark the beginning of Poison Prevention Week, 1982;
-- Premier John W. D. Swan of Bermuda;
-- the Presidential Advisory Committee on Federalism.

March 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade.

March 24, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- State and local officials, to discuss the enterprise zones legislation;
-- former President Gerald R. Ford;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Affairs, to discuss drug enforcement.

March 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Minister of Foreign Relations Bernd Niehaus Quesada of Costa Rica, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fidel Chavez Mena of El Salvador, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Cesar Elvir Sierra of Honduras;
-- the National Security Council.

The President has designated Benjamin F. Baer as Chairman of the United States Parole Commission.

The President announced that the Vice President will visit Japan, Korea, and Singapore in late April. He will also visit Australia and New Zealand. The Vice President is visiting these countries at the invitation of Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki of Japan, Prime Minister Chang Soon Yoo of the Republic of Korea, and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore. The Vice President looks forward to this opportunity to reaffirm the close and abiding friendship the United States enjoys with each of these three countries. The discussions with the Japanese, Korean, and Singapore leaders will center on significant matters of mutual interest.

March 26, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.

The President requested the Congress to provide $350 million in fiscal year 1982 to help implement his Caribbean Basin policy. These funds would go to countries threatened by severe economic problems, outside intervention in domestic political affairs, and uncontrolled internal violence. The funds would be distributed as follows: $128 million for San Salvador, $70 million for Costa Rica, $50 million for Jamaica, $40 million for the Dominican Republic, $35 million for Honduras, $10 million for Belize, $5 million for Haiti, and $12 million for regional programs.

March 27, 1982
The White House announced that the President has declared a major disaster for the State of Ohio as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on or about March 12, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

In the evening, the President attended the annual Gridiron Dinner at the Capital Hilton Hotel.

March 29,1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- representatives of the National Association of Attorneys General;
-- Muhammad 'Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala, Minister of Defense of Egypt.

The President asked the Congress to consider a request for supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1982 in the amount of $97,400,000 and an amendment to the request for appropriations for the fiscal year 1983 in the amount of $310,900,000 for atomic defense activities.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Michigan as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on or about March 12, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

March 30, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources;
-- Shlomo Goren, Chief Rabbi of Israel.

The President held separate meetings at the White House with the following Members of Congress:
-- Senators Henry M. Jackson and John W. Warner, to discuss their resolution concerning nuclear arms control;
-- Representatives Cleve Benedict of Wyoming, William Carney of New York, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Clay Shaw of Florida, Mark Siljander of Michigan, and David M. Staton of West Virginia;
-- Representatives Lynn M. Martin and Tom Railsback of Illinois;
-- Representative James Coyne of Pennsylvania;
-- Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who was accompanied by Paddy Boyd, Mrs. America.

March 31, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, head of the U.S. Delegation to the Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Reduction Negotiations, and Eugene V. Rostow, Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, to discuss the progress of the INF talks in Geneva;
-- Senator Nancy L. Kassebaum, Representatives Robert Livingston and John P. Murtha, Richard Scammon, an electoral analyst, and Howard Penniman of the American Enterprise Institute, who reported to the President on their trip to El Salvador to observe the elections in that country;
-- Arthur J. Fellwock, national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Voice of Democracy scholarship program winners.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President met with Clifford M. Clarke, president of the Arthritis Foundation, and Amy and Lisa Keen, 5-year-old identical twins from Dorothy, N.J., the foundation's poster children, to launch preparations for May as Arthritis Month.

April 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- representatives of the thrift industry;
-- the Vice President;
-- a group of Members of Congress.

April 2, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy;
-- Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada;
-- members of the United States-Canada International Joint Commission.

In a ceremony in the Roosevelt Room, the President signed H.R. 4482, the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982. Participants in the ceremony included Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, judges of the U.S. Court of Claims and the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Members of the Congress, and other administration officials. The Act establishes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Claims Court.

April 3, 1982
Following his radio address to the Nation on the program for economic recovery, the President left the White House for a stay at Camp David, Md.

April 4, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

April 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- freshman Republican Members of the House of Representatives.

The President telephoned Catherine Filene Shouse at the Wolf Trap Farm Park to express his sorrow at the damage done by fire to the Filene Center on April 4. He said that he had instructed the Department of the Interior and the National Endowment for the Arts to look into the matter and see if they could be helpful.

April 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Vice President, for lunch.

April 7, 1982
The President left the White House for a trip to Kingston, Jamaica, and Bridgetown, Barbados.

April 9, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the State of Texas as a result of severe storms and tornadoes, beginning on April 2, which caused extensive property damage.

April 11, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan attended Easter services at St. James Parish Church in Bridgetown, Barbados. Following a brunch at the home of Claudette Colbert, the President and Mrs. Reagan left Barbados and returned to the White House.

April 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of Jewish leaders, including Al Speigel, Max Fisher, George Klein, Richard Fox, Gordon Zacks, and Lawrence Weinberg.

The President and Mrs. Reagan went to the South Lawn of the White House to greet the children who were participating in the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

The President declared an emergency for the State of Mississippi as a result of severe storms and tornadoes on April 3, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Edmund Andrew Marshalleck of Belize, Rene Amany of the Ivory Coast, Edmund Hawkins Lake of Antigua and Barbuda, and Baernardo Sepulveda Amor of Mexico.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Mohamed Mzali of Tunisia to pay an official working visit to Washington from April 26 to April 30 as a mark of the friendship between the United States and Tunisia. The President will meet with the Prime Minister to discuss bilateral and regional issues on April 29. The Prime Minister will meet with other officials of the administration as well as Members of the Congress during his visit.

April 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture;
-- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and a group of industrial and financial leaders, including David Rockefeller, Lawrence Brainard, William D. Rogers, Willard Butcher, George Shultz, Elvis L. Mason, Edmund W. Littlefield, Walter Wriston, and Peter Peterson.

The White House announced that the President has requested the Congress to provide supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 1982 totaling $6.3 billion and amended budget requests for fiscal year 1983 totaling nearly $5 billion. The major items included in this request are:
-- $6.1 billion in 1982 to meet the unabsorbed cost of the October 1981 Federal pay raise. The 1983 budget provided an adequate allowance for these pay raise requests so the estimates contained in that budget remain essentially unchanged by this request.
-- $115.5 million in 1982 for international security assistance to be used for military assistance to Sudan and the Caribbean Basin countries and to provide increased military training to various countries.
-- $5 billion in 1983 for the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation to enable the Corporation to continue to make loans and payments to farmers.
-- Also included are requests for appropriations and appropriations language changes for the legislative branch, the judiciary, the Departments of Commerce, Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, State, Treasury, and various independent agencies.

In the evening, the President attended a reception in the Blue Room for the Eureka College Fund Group.

April 14, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., who reported on his recent meetings in Buenos Aires and London concerning the dispute between United Kingdom and Argentina in the Falkland Islands.

April 15, 1982
The President transmitted to the Congress the budget of the District of Columbia for fiscal year 1983.

April 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, to discuss pending legislation on immigration policy;
-- a group of representatives of independent regulatory agencies.

Late in the afternoon, the President attended a reception in the East Room for the Eagles, a group of contributors to the Republican Party.

April 17, 1982
The President spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom to discuss her country's dispute with Argentina in the Falkland Islands.

The President has designated Patricia A. Goldman as Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The President left the White House to spend the night at Camp David, Md.

April 18, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

April 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

April 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican congressional leaders;
-- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr.;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Senator Nicholas Brady, newly sworn in to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr., of New Jersey.

April 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- the Vice President, for lunch.

The President and Assistant to the President James A. Baker III went to Quantico Marine Base, Va., for several hours of horseback riding.

April 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Hawaii as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on March 30, which caused extensive property damage.

April 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- representatives of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors;
-- the Cabinet.

April 24, 1982
The President declared an emergency for the State of Arkansas as a result of severe storms and tornadoes on April 2, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of California as a result of fires beginning on April 21, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

In the evening, the President attended the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton Hotel.

April 26, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture to discuss the dairy surplus.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1981 annual report on the operation of the Alaska Railroad and the fifth annual report of the National Institute of Building Sciences.

In the evening, the President attended a reception in the Residence for Hawaii Republicans.

April 27, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- John Felder, president, Ted Kennedy, past president, Hubert L. Harris, Jr., executive vice president, and Michael Schoor, director of government relations, the Associated Builders and Contractors.

The White House announced that the United States Government and the Chinese Government have agreed that in early May, at the end of his trip to other countries in East Asia, Vice President George Bush will visit China for talks with Chinese leaders. The visit to Peking is an indication of the great importance we place on our relations with China and of our desire to further understanding between our two Governments at the highest levels. The purpose of the visit will be to exchange views on matters of mutual interest, including both international and bilateral issues. The exact dates have not been fixed, but the visit will probably take place some time between May 5 and May 9.

April 28, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President went to Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. on the budget. The meeting in the President's Room in the Senate Chamber was also attended by Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III, Assistant to the President James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, David A. Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Senator Paul Laxalt, and Representatives Richard Bolling and Jim Wright.

The White House announced that in conjunction with his participation in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council on June 9 - 10, in Bonn, the President has accepted an invitation of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to visit the Federal Republic of Germany. The President will meet with Chancellor Schmidt, President Karl Karstens, and will address the Bundestag. Following his visit to Bonn, the President will also visit Berlin.

The White House announced that the President has designated Edwin L. Harper, Assistant to the President for Policy Development, as Chairman of the Property Review Board.

April 29, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 16th annual report of the National Endowment for the Humanities for fiscal year 1981.

April 30, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Senators Pete V. Domenici, Robert Dole, and Paul Laxalt, and Representatives Robert H. Michel, Barber B. Conable, Jr., and Delbert L. Latta, to discuss the budget;
-- Governor John Spellman of Washington, to discuss economic problems in the State;
-- poster children for Better Hearing and Speech Month;
-- members of the Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business Ownership.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister John Malcolm Fraser of Australia to meet with him in Washington on May 17. During his visit, the Prime Minister and the President will discuss international developments of mutual concern. They last met in Washington on June 30, 1981.

May 3, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff; 
-- the National Security Council;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Attorney General William French Smith and members of the White House staff, to discuss legislation extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965;
-- Republican leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives;
-- Republican members of the Senate Budget Committee.

May 4, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Republican members of the House Budget Committee.

May 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- former Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz;
-- national broadcasting representatives of the President's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives;
-- former Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally.

The President has chosen the following delegation to represent him at the inauguration of Luis Alberto Monge as President of Costa Rica in San Jose on May 8:
The Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. John R. Block, head of delegation;
Ambassador Francis J. McNeil, Ambassador to Costa Rica;
Ambassador Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs;
Jose Manuel Casanova, U.S. Executive Director at the Inter-American Development Bank;
Russell E. Marks, Jr., president of the Americas Society;
Representative Benjamin A. Gilman of New York;
William McCann, president, Foundation Life Insurance Co. of America;
Jimmy Lyon, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, River Oaks Bank and Trust, Houston, Tex.;
Mayor Vincent A. Cianci, Jr., of Providence, R.I.;
Humberto Quinones, Jr., Cuban-American businessman; Doug Morrow, screenwriter in Los Angeles, Calif.

May 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Pedro Perez Llorca;
-- the Cabinet.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1981 annual report of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee and the annual report of the Commodity Credit Corporation for fiscal year 1981.

The President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a reception for State and local officials on the State Floor of the White House.

May 7, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of Republican Members of the Senate and House of Representatives.

May 10, 1982
The White House announced that the President called Sugar Ray Leonard, world welterweight boxing champion, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and spoke to him for a few minutes to convey his good wishes as Mr. Leonard recovers from surgery. The President conveyed his hope that Mr. Leonard's career will continue, and Mr. Leonard expressed his appreciation to the President for his call and concern.

May 11, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President met with the following groups to discuss the Senate Budget Committee compromise package on the Federal budget:
-- chief executive officers of small business organizations;
-- representatives of national trade associations;
-- representatives of business organizations.

The President hosted a luncheon in the Family Dining Room at the White House for a group of Soviet emigres and exiles.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of North Dakota as a result of flooding, beginning on February 19, which caused extensive property damage.

May 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Nancy Ray and Louis Unser, National Multiple Sclerosis Mother and Father of the Year, and members of their families, and Frank Sinatra, national campaign chairman, and Sylvia Lawry, founder and executive director, National Multiple Sclerosis Society;
-- the Vice President and Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., to review the Vice President's trip to the Far East;
-- a group of financial consultants and money market fund managers, to discuss the Senate Budget Committee package on the Federal budget.

The White House announced that the President has invited His Majesty King Hassan II of Morocco to pay an official working visit to Washington from May 18 to May 21 for discussions of bilateral relations and a review of international issues of mutual concern. The President will meet His Majesty on May 19 and host a luncheon in his honor following the meeting.

May 13, 1982
The President held a breakfast meeting with President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo of Brazil.

The President met at the White house with:
-- representatives of commercial banks, to discuss the Senate Budget Committee package on the Federal budget;
-- the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

May 14, 1982
The President left the White House for a trip to Pennsylvania.

May 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- former Secretary of the Treasury George P. Shultz;
-- Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President's emissary in consultations in the Middle East.

The President has designated the following individuals to be members of the United States Presidential Delegation to commemorate the Centennial of United States-Korean Relations. The delegation will take part in a groundbreaking for the Centennial Memorial at Inchon, Republic of Korea, on May 22. The members of the delegation are:
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer (USA-Ret.), head of delegation;
Ambassador and Mrs. Richard L. Walker, U.S. Ambassador to Korea;
Representative and Mrs. Samuel S. Stratton of New York;
Representative and Mrs. Robert E. Badham of California;Representative and Mrs. William M. Thomas of California;
Gen. and Mrs. Richard G. Stilwell (USA-Ret.), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
Ambassador and Mrs. Richard Sneider, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea;
Senator Donald E. Lukens, State senator from Ohio;
Mayor Margaret T. Hance of Phoenix, Ariz.;
Dr. W. Glenn Campbell, director, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Calif.;
Mrs. Anna Chennault, president, TAC International, Washington, D.C.;
Dr. and Mrs. Lev E. Dobriansky, professor of economics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.;
Mrs. Guadalupe F. Hinckle, member, American Delegation to the Korean-American Cultural Exchange Committee, Los Angeles, Calif.;
Mr. and Mrs. Insoo Hwang, professor of physical education, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.;
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Y. Jung, president, Western American Trading Co., Inc., Las Vegas, Nev.;
Kyonshill Connie Kang, reporter, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, Calif.;
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Lefever, president, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.;
Mr. Preston Long, member, American Delegation to the Korean-American Cultural Exchange Committee, New York, N.Y.;
Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Torczyner, member, World Zionist Organization, New York, N.Y.;
Mrs. Dorothy J. Tyson and Mr. Tyson, member, American Delegation to the Korean-American Cultural Exchange Committee, San Diego, Calif.;
Mr. and Mrs. Chester R. Upham, Jr., owner, Upham Oil and Gas Co., Mineral Wells, Tex.

May 17, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs.

The President presented the 1982 Recording for the Blind Scholastic Achievement Awards to Cheryl Orgas, Nigel Ricards, and Timothy Walsh in a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House.

The President reappointed Robert Anderson as United States National Chairman for United Nations Day.

May 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs;
-- Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for lunch;
-- Walter Alston and Al Lopez, the two managers of the First Annual Old Timers Baseball Classic, to be played July 19 at R.F.K. Stadium in Washington, D.C.

May 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Federal Council on the Aging.

May 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board;
-- the Cabinet, for a working luncheon.

May 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

May 22, 1982
The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India to pay an official visit to the United States. The Prime Minister has accepted and will meet with the President in Washington on July 29.

May 24, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy.

May 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Republican congressional leadership.

The President left the White House and went to California, where he stayed until May 30.

The White House announced that the President is transmitting to the Speaker of the House of Representatives requests for supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1982 totaling $83,083,000 and amendments to the request for appropriations for the fiscal year 1983 totaling $341,000.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Texas as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on May 12, 1982, which caused extensive property damage.

May 26, 1982
The President transmitted to the Congress the annual report of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for fiscal year 1981.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to visit Washington on June 21 to discuss issues of interest to both countries. Prime Minister Begin will be in the United States to address the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament in New York on June 18.

May 27, 1982
The White House announced that the President has approved several humanitarian assistance programs for Poland. Specifically, they authorize the following:
-- that the Catholic Relief Service be granted $11.2 million under PL - 480 title II funds for 1982;
-- that CARE and the Catholic Relief Service programs be funded through the first quarter of 1983 at $12.5 million and through the rest of fiscal year 1983 at a total cost not to exceed $40 million; and
-- that Project HOPE be allocated the entire $5 million that is earmarked for Poland by the fiscal year 1982 foreign assistance appropriations bill.

The President's determination manifests the administration's continuing concern and support for the well-being of the Polish people. It constitutes a reaffirmation of our current aid policy toward Poland and, despite the suspension of all official U.S. Government credits to Poland, humanitarian assistance to the Polish people is wholeheartedly endorsed and is to be continued.

May 30, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan left Rancho del Cielo, their ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., and returned to the White House.

May 31, 1982
The President met at the White House with Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. Representative to the United Nations.

The President telephoned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom to discuss the dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina in the Falkland Islands.

June 1, 1982
The President met at the White House throughout the day with members of the Cabinet and the White House staff in preparation for his trip to Europe.

In the afternoon, the President met at the White House with Republican Members of the Congress to discuss the budget.

June 5, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the State of Illinois as a result of severe storms and tornadoes, beginning on May 29, which caused extensive property damage.

June 7, 1982
The President announced his intention to nominate the following-named persons to be Representatives and Alternate Representatives of the United States of America to the Twelfth Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament:
Representatives
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations
John W. Warner, United States Senator from the State of Virginia
Samuel S. Stratton, United States Representative from the State of New York
Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., President of the Heritage Foundation
Eugene Victor Rostow, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Alternate Representatives
Kenneth L. Adelman, Deputy United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Sam Nunn, United States Senator from the State of Georgia
Jack Kemp, United States Representative from the State of New York
Louis G. Fields, Jr., United States Representative to the Committee on Disarmament
Fred Charles Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

June 12, 1982
The President left the White House for a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

June 14, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

The President met at the White House with:
-- the Vice President, prior to his departure for Saudi Arabia;
-- the National Security Council.

June 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the bipartisan congressional leadership, to report on his trip to Europe;
-- the Cabinet, to report on his trip to Europe.

Prior to leaving the White House for his trip to Houston, Tex., the President met with the graduating class of the Capitol Page School in the Rose Garden.

The President has declared a major disaster for the State of Connecticut as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on June 4, which caused extensive property damage.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Luis Alberto Monge of Costa Rica to make an official visit to Washington on June 21 - 23. During his stay in Washington, President Monge will meet with President Reagan and other administration officials.

June 16, 1982
The President returned to the White House from his trip to Houston.

The President met at the White House with:
-- Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Kamal Hasan 'Ali, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and other United States and Egyptian officials;
-- members of the National Association of Broadcasters.

June 17, 1982
The President transmitted to the Congress the 1981 annual report of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.

The President has asked the Congress to consider a request for the supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 1982 in the amount of $20 million for international disaster assistance.

June 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources, to discuss urban policy;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

The President attended a White House reception for the Republican National Committee in the Residence. He then left the White House for a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

The President has designated Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., as Chairman of the United States International Trade Commission for the term expiring June 16, 1984. He was appointed a member of the Commission on September 18, 1981.

The President nominated James Jay Jackson to be a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board for the term of 4 years expiring June 30, 1986. This is a reappointment.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Oklahoma as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on May 11, which caused extensive property damage.

The President designated Douglas Dillon as Chairman of the National Museum Services Board.

The President requested the Congress to provide supplemental appropriations in the amount of $12.8 million in fiscal year 1982 and a budget amendment in the amount of $7.5 million in fiscal year 1983 for the Secret Service. These funds would be used to provide additional protection.

June 20, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

June 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Governor Charles Thone of Nebraska, to discuss the economic problems in that State;
-- Members of Congress;
-- members of the Congressional Budget Group.

The President attended a reception for members of the Senatorial Trust, a group of contributors to the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, on the State Floor at the White House.

June 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican congressional leaders;
-- representatives of religious, educational, and civic organizations, to discuss Federal income tax credits for non-public school tuition;
-- Senators Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Jake Garn of Utah, to discuss the housing provision of the fiscal year 1982 supplemental appropriations bill;
-- Republican congressional candidates and their spouses.

June 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Vice President, for lunch.

The President attended two separate receptions for members of the Ground Floor Committee, a group of early supporters during the 1980 Presidential campaign, on the State Floor at the White House.

June 24, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- leaders of southern State legislatures, to discuss the federalism initiative.

The President attended a reception for the California Republican congressional delegation on the State Floor at the White House.

The President has announced the appointment of William H. Morris, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development, as the United States Commissioner General, Louisiana World Exposition of 1984, on an interim basis pending the appointment of a permanent U.S. Commissioner General.

June 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

In an Oval Office ceremony, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Juan Agurcia Ewing of Honduras, Edmund O. Z. Chipamaunga of Zimbabwe, Mircea Malita of Romania, Abourahmane Dia of Senegal, Lancelot Raymond Adams-Schneider of New Zealand, and Aquilino E. Boyd of Panama.

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

The President designated Robert Boone Hawkins, Jr., as Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

June 26, 1982
The President met with Secretary of State-designate George P. Shultz and members of the White House staff at Camp David, Md.

June 27, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

June 28, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy.

The White House announced that the President called Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan to express his pleasure and to report the conclusions of the Special Prosecutor's report. While the White House Counsel's office has not had a chance to complete the review of the details, the President is extremely pleased with its details.

The President designated Cathie A. Shattuck as Vice Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She has been a member since December 18, 1981.

The President designated S. Jesse Reuben as Acting General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Kansas as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on June 8, which caused extensive property damage.

June 29, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

June 30, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea.

July 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of State-designate George P. Shultz.

The President left the White House for an 11 - day stay in southern California.

The President transmitted to the Congress the first annual Synfuels report as prepared by the Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense.

The President has asked the Congress to consider a request for supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1982 totaling $18,805,000 and amendments to the request for appropriations for fiscal year 1983 totaling $22,185,000.

July 2, 1982
The White House announced that the President has invited President Ahmadou Ahidjo of the United Republic of Cameroon to make an official working visit to Washington. President Ahidjo has accepted the invitation and will meet and have a working lunch with President Reagan at the White House on July 26 to discuss matters of mutual interest.

The White House announced that the President sent a message to the new President of Argentina, Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, saying that the President places high value on good relations with the new President and with the Argentine people.

July 5, 1982
The White House announced that U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John A. Gavin would deliver in Mexico City a personal message from the President to President-elect Miguel de la Madrid. The message expressed the President's best wishes and that the term of President-elect de la Madrid will be a time of greatness and prosperity for Mexico.

The White House announced that the President will meet with President-elect Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Republic at the White House on July 15.

July 7, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the State of Florida as a result of severe storms and flooding, beginning on June 17, which caused extensive property damage.

July 8, 1982
The White House announced that the President has invited President Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras to make an official working visit to Washington on July 13 - 15. President Suazo has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President on July 14.

July 11, 1982
The President returned to the White House from his 11-day vacation in California.

July 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, to discuss the current status of the agricultural economy;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources, to discuss pending legislation on mandatory retirement;
-- chief executive officers in the financial community, to discuss tax legislation before the Senate Budget Committee.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 15th annual report of the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science program covering calendar year 1981.

July 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- bipartisan congressional leaders, to discuss the situation in the Middle East;
-- wheelchair athletes.

The President transmitted to the Congress the third biennial National Urban Policy Report.

July 14, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Republican congressional leadership, to discuss foreign policy issues;
-- the bipartisan leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore to have lunch with him on July 21. The Prime Minister will be in Washington, D.C., on a private and unofficial visit July 18 - 22.

July 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control in the Federal Government;
-- President-elect Salvador Jorge Blanco of the Dominican Republic;
-- the Vice President, for lunch;
-- Republican members of the House Agriculture Committee;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss product liability and grain sales agreements with the Soviet Union.

The President announced that he has directed Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block to declare parts of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma eligible for disaster relief because of widespread crop damage caused by hail, heavy rainfall, high winds, and unusually cold weather in May and June. This relief will enable farmers in the 76 counties affected to receive disaster payments for cotton, wheat, and feedgrains, as well as special assistance for soil conservation.

July 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Archbishop John Roach, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/U.S. Catholic Conference, and Monsignor Daniel Hoye;
-- the National Security Council;
-- the 1981 - 82 class of White House fellows;
-- Governors James Thompson of Illinois, Richard Thornburgh of Pennsylvania, Robert List of Nevada, and William Janklow of South Dakota, to discuss measures they have taken against crime in their States.

The President requested Congress to provide an additional $30 million in fiscal year 1982 for emergency relief assistance to Lebanon. This is in addition to the $20 million that was requested by the President on June 16 and the $15 million that has been made available for food, shelter, medicines, and other critically needed relief supplies.

The White House announced that the President will meet on July 20 with an Arab League delegation visiting Washington, D.C., to discuss the situation in Lebanon. The delegation is composed of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria, `Abd al-Halim Khaddam, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal.

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

July 19, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

July 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Prince Sa'ud al-Faysal, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, 'Abd al-Halim Khaddam, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States Sheikh Faisal Alhegelan, Syrian Ambassador to the United States Rafic Jouejati, the Vice President, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and administration officials, to discuss the situation in Lebanon;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Representative Trent Lott of Mississippi and House Republican Whips.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1981 annual report on the Administration of the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act and the third annual report on the Status of the Weatherization Assistance program.

July 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, for lunch.

July 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President left the White House for an overnight stay in St. Louis, Mo.

The White House announced that the President will meet with Gen. Mohammad Jusuf, Minister of Defense and Security of Indonesia, on July 26.

The President telephoned Mrs. Joseph Kennedy to extend congratulations on her 92d birthday.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Colorado as a result of flash flooding beginning on July 15, which caused extensive property damage.

July 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with Edwin Meese III, Counsellor to the President, to offer his personal condolences over the death of Mr. Meese's son Scott.

The President accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to John W. McDonald, Jr., in his capacity as Vice Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations World Assembly on Aging to be held in Vienna, Austria, from July 26 to August 6.

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

July 25, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

July 26, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Gen. Mohammad Jusuf, Minister of Defense and Security of Indonesia;
-- chief executive officers of corporations and associations, to discuss the private sector initiatives program.

The President attended funeral services for Scott R. Meese, younger son of Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III, at Emmanual Lutheran Church in Vienna, Va.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 13th annual report of the independent National Corporation for Housing Partnerships and the National Housing Partnership.

The President announced his approval of a recommendation from Robert O. Harris, Chairman of the National Mediation Board, to extend the reporting deadline of Emergency Board No. 194 to August 19. This Board was created by Executive Order 12370 of July 8, 1982, its purpose being to investigate a dispute between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference.

The President accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to James B. Holderman, of South Carolina, in connection with his duties as Alternate Head of the UNESCO second World Conference on Cultural Policies, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, from July 26 to August 6.

The White House announced that at the request of the President, the Vice President will lead the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Belisario Betancur Cuartas as President of Colombia on August 6 - 8. Accompanying the Vice President on the delegation will be U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Thomas D. Boyatt and Senator Robert W. Kasten, Jr., of Wisconsin.

July 27, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a bipartisan group of Senators, to discuss the proposed constitutional amendment for a balanced Federal budget.

July 28, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

July 29, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- George W. Landau, U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, Arthur H. Davis, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Robert W. Duemling, U.S. Ambassador to Suriname, Robert H. Phinny, U.S. Ambassador to Swaziland, and Nicholas Platt, U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, prior to their departure for their overseas posts.

In an Oval Office ceremony, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Jaroslav Zantovsky of Czechoslovakia, Benjamin Razafintseheno of Madagascar, Bernardus Fourie of South Africa, Soto Harrison of Costa Rica, Jorge Luis Zelaya Coronado of Guatemala, and Humayun Rasheed Choudhury of Bangladesh.

July 30, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Hasan 'Ali of Egypt, the Vice President, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Ashraf Ghorbal, and other U.S. and Egyptian officials;
-- Republican Members of Congress, to discuss U.S. policy towards the China and Taiwan.

The White House made available the mid-session review of the fiscal year 1983 Federal budget.

The President requested the Congress to provide supplemental appropriations totaling $11.8 million in fiscal year 1982 and budget amendments totaling $353 million in fiscal year 1983. Included in these proposals are funds to provide for Federal participation in the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and funds to cover the cost of increased Coast Guard surveillance of the southeastern coast of the United States as part of an expanded drug interdiction effort.

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

August 2, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President left the White House for an overnight stay in Des Moines, Iowa.

August 4, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- a bipartisan group of Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss strategic arms reduction;
-- the Cabinet;
-- Republican members of the Senate-House Conference Committee, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation;
-- Republican Senate and House leaders, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The President transmitted to the Congress the second annual report, covering calendar year 1981, prepared by the Department of Energy on the Federal coordination of factors and data used in the development of building energy conservation standards, and the fifth report on title VI of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (Manufactured Housing).

The President requested the Congress to provide a $5.5 million supplemental appropriation in fiscal year 1982 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and budget amendments totaling $3.9 million in fiscal year 1983 for the newly established Property Review Board and for the Merit Systems Protection Board.

The White House announced that the President has invited the Liberian Head of State Samuel K. Doe, to pay an official working visit to Washington, D.C. Mr. Doe has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President on August 25. Following the meeting there will be a luncheon at the White House with the President and other senior U.S. officials.

August 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet, for a working luncheon;
-- Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation;
-- Republican Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

August 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation;
-- the National Security Council, for a working luncheon.

August 9, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

During the day, the President met with groups of Republican Members of the House of Representatives and individual Members to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The President met with a bipartisan group of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives to discuss Federal income tax credits for nonpublic school tuition.

The President announced that Lyn Nofziger, his former Assistant for Political Affairs, will assist in the administration's effort to win approval of the Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation now under consideration in the Congress. Mr. Nofziger will work as an unpaid consultant in charge of coordinating the administration's external relations in support of the measure. He will have offices in the White House and will serve until congressional action on the legislation is completed.

The President accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to James M. Beggs in his capacity as U.S. Representative to the second United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, scheduled for August 9 - 21 in Vienna, Austria.

The White House announced that the official working visit of the Liberian Head of State Samuel K. Doe, which had been scheduled for August 25, has been rescheduled for August 17.

August 10, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Republican congressional leadership;
-- Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp.;
-- Paul Thayer, chairman of the executive board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce;
-- Shimon Peres, leader of the Israeli Labor Party;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

During the day, the President met with groups of Republican Members of the House of Representatives and individual Members to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan to make a state visit to the United States. President Zia has accepted and will meet with the President at the White House on December 7.

The President designated Haldane Robert Mayer as Acting Special Counsel of the Merit Systems Protection Board. He replaces Alex Kozinski, who has been nominated to be a Judge of the U.S. Claims Court.

August 11, 1982
The President left the White House in the morning for a trip to Billings, Mont.

The President transmitted to the Congress the fiscal year 1980 annual report on Mine Safety and Health Activities as submitted by the Secretary of Labor.

August 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Vice President, for lunch.

During the day, the President met with groups of Republican Members of the House of Representatives and individual Members to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

August 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

During the day, the President met with groups of Republican Members of the House of Representatives and individual Members to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

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

August 14, 1982
The President held a luncheon meeting with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and senior administration officials at Camp David, Md.

The White House announced that the President has chosen the following delegation to represent him at the inauguration of His Excellency Salvador Jorge Blanco as President of the Dominican Republic. These ceremonies are scheduled to be held at Santo Domingo on August 15 - 16.

Ellsworth Bunker, of Washington, D.C., will head the delegation;
Robert Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic;
Representative Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma;
Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of American States;
Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs;
Otto J. Reich, Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development;
Weston Adams, member, United States National Committee for UNESCO, Columbia, S.C.;
Edwin W. Thomas, Regional Administrator, General Services Administration, Walnut Creek, Calif.;
John Ellis Bush, president, IntrAmerica Investments, Inc., Miami, Fla.;
Michael Cardenas, CPA/financial consultant, Fresno, Calif.;
William C. Doherty, executive director, American Institute for Free Labor, Washington, D.C.; and
James P. Regan, of Beverly Hills, Calif.

August 15, 1982
The President met with a group of Republican Members of the House of Representatives at Camp David, Md.

The President returned to the White House from Camp David.

August 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

During the morning and early afternoon, the President met at the White House with Republican Members of the House of Representatives to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

August 17, 1982
The President greeted members of the public who were touring the White House.

The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

During the day, the President met with Republican Members of the House of Representatives to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The President requested the Congress to provide transfer authority and appropriation language for the Department of Justice in fiscal year 1982, amended appropriation language for the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services, and offsetting budget amendments and appropriation language for the Department of Transportation in fiscal year 1983. He also transmitted a request by the legislative branch to increase 1983 appropriations by $4.5 million. By law, legislative branch requests are transmitted without change.

August 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican congressional leaders;
-- members of the Deficit Reduction Action Group;
-- former Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon.

During the day, the President met with groups of Members of the House of Representatives and individual Members to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Vigdis Finnbogadottir of Iceland to make an official working visit to Washington. President Finnbogadottir has accepted the invitation and will meet with President Reagan at the White House on September 8. Following their meeting, President Reagan will host a luncheon in honor of President Finnbogadottir and other Nordic chiefs of state or their representatives who will be in Washington, D.C., for the opening that day of the Scandinavia Today program.

August 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

During the day, the President met with Members of the House of Representatives to discuss Federal tax and budget reconciliation legislation.

The President declared an emergency for the State of Washington because of the threat of flooding from Spirit Lake. The President's action will permit Federal assistance to avert or alleviate the threatened flooding.

August 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the bipartisan congressional leadership, to discuss the deployment of U.S. forces in Beirut, Lebanon.

The President and Mrs. Reagan left the White House for a trip to Phoenix, Ariz., where they remained overnight at the home of Mrs. Reagan's mother, Mrs. Loyal Davis.

August 21, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan left Phoenix, Ariz., and went to Rancho del Cielo, their ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.

August 24, 1982
The President met during the day with members of the White House staff at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

In the afternoon, the President went to the Los Angeles office of Dr. Howard House for a routine ear examination.

Following dinner at a private residence, the President returned to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where he remained overnight.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 1981 annual report of the Federal Council on the Aging and the  seventh annual report of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

August 25, 1982
In the morning, the President left the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., and went to Rancho del Cielo, his ranch near Santa Barbara.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Tennessee as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on August 16, which caused extensive property damage.

The White House announced that the President has appointed Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Governors of the American National Red Cross.

August 27, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the State of Missouri as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on August 12, which caused extensive property damage.

August 30, 1982
William A. Wilson, Personal Representative of the President to the Holy See, and Mrs. Wilson were guests of the President and Mrs. Reagan at Rancho del Cielo, their ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.

The White House announced that the President has designated Loretta Cornelius, Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, as Chairman of the Government Red Cross Blood Program for the Metropolitan Washington area.

September 1, 1982
The President transmitted to the Congress the fiscal year 1981 annual report of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Education.

September 3, 1982
The White House announced that the President has invited President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines and Mrs. Marcos to make a state visit to the United States. President and Mrs. Marcos have accepted the invitation and will begin their visit September 15. The two Presidents will meet at the White House on September 16. President Marcos also will meet with Cabinet officers, Members of Congress, and representatives of the private sector during his visit. The visit by President and Mrs. Marcos reflects the traditionally close and friendly ties between the United States and the Philippines.

September 6, 1982
The White House announced that the President expressed sorrow and sadness on being informed of the death of former Congressman Keith Sebilius of the First District of Kansas. The President will communicate privately with the Sebilius family.

September 7, 1982
The President returned to the White House following his trip to California.

September 8, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of the Treasury Donald T. Regan, to discuss the international economic situation;
-- members of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board;
-- a bipartisan group of Representatives, to discuss the proposed amendment for a balanced Federal budget.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Benjamin T. Romualdez of the Philippines, Alejandro Vegh Villegas of Uruguay, Robert Carrington Cotton of Australia, A. Hasnan Habib of Indonesia, Lamin Abdou Mbye of The Gambia, Leonardo Charles de Zaffiri Duarte Mathias of Portugal, and Oliver Wright of the United Kingdom.

The President transmitted to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate the seventh annual report on Federal agencies implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974.

September 9, 1982
The President left the White House for a trip to Kansas and Utah.

September 10, 1982
Following his trip to Kansas and Utah, the President went to Camp David, Md., for the weekend.

The President telephoned Col. James Mead, Commanding Officer of the U.S. Marines who participated in the multinational force in Lebanon. Colonel Mead was aboard the U.S.S. Guam, an amphibious ship located in the Eastern Mediterranean. The President thanked the colonel and the marines on behalf of the American people for their participation in the force.

September 12, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

September 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss the Combined Federal Campaign and international economics.

September 14, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senators Robert Dole of Kansas, Daniel P. Moynihan of New York, Bob Packwood of Oregon, and William V. Roth, Jr., of Delaware,  and a group of administration officials, to discuss the tuition tax credit legislation;
-- a group of chief executive officers of major trade associations, to discuss private sector initiatives;
-- Members of Congress and representatives of the textile industry;
-- the White House fellows.

In the early evening, the President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a reception at the White House prior to the Washington Charity Dinner.

The President transmitted to the Congress the following annual reports:
-- the third annual report of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, covering fiscal year 1981;
-- the fourth and fifth annual reports on the status of health information and health promotion, based on the periods June 1980 through June 1981, and June 1981 through June 1982, respectively;
-- the 11th annual report on the administration of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970, covering calendar year 1981; and
-- the annual report of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on the Arts for fiscal year 1981.

The President designated David R. Scott as Acting Director of the Office of Government Ethics.

The White House announced that at the invitation of the President, the Queen of England and the Duke of Edinburgh will pay an official visit to the United States from February 26 to March 7, 1983.

September 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican congressional leaders, to discuss the situation in Lebanon and legislative priorities;
-- Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark and U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert S. Dillon, to discuss the situation in Lebanon;
-- Bill Murphy, president of the National Association of Counties;
-- Mayors George Voinovich of Cleveland, Ohio, Coleman Young of Detroit, Mich., Richard Caliguiri of Pittsburgh, Pa., Margaret Hance of Phoenix, Ariz., Lee Alexander of Syracuse, N.Y., Joseph Riley of Charleston, S.C., and Robert Martinez of Tampa, Fla.;
-- C. William Verity, Jr., Chairman of the President's Task Force on Private Sector Initiatives;
-- Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Assistant to the  President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark, to discuss the situation in Lebanon and other matters.

September 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

September 17, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

In the afternoon, the President left the White House for a trip to New Jersey and returned to Washington in the evening.

The President transmitted to the Congress the second annual report on activities undertaken by the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the Department of Energy to implement the development of synthetic fuels under the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. 

The President transmitted to the Congress the second annual report of the Department of Education, covering fiscal year 1981.

September 18-19, 1982
The President met at the White House with his foreign policy and national security advisers to discuss the situation in Lebanon.

September 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- a group of Presidential appointees for a breakfast meeting;
-- his senior foreign policy advisers, including the Vice President, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President's emissary in consultations in the Middle East, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Robert C. McFarlane, Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III, and Assistant to the President Michael K. Deaver, to discuss the situation in Lebanon;
-- officials of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, who presented the President with a $50 million check for the U.S. Treasury from the record profits of the Corporation; 
-- the Cabinet, to discuss legislative matters;
-- Lanette Butler, a first grade student from Riverside, Calif., who is the 1982 poster child of the National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, Inc.

Prior to his meeting with the Cabinet, the President met with Secretary of Transportation Drew L. Lewis, who reported on his consultations with Members of Congress concerning the railroad labor dispute. The President instructed Secretary Lewis to recommend to the Congress a bipartisan joint resolution implementing the recommendations of the Emergency Board, appointed last July under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, for the duration of the contract, which is through June 1984.

September 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff, including Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark, who discussed with the President the situation in Lebanon;
-- chief executive officers of 12 aerospace firms;
-- State presidents and members of the executive committee of the United States Jaycees.

The White House announced that the President has accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Michael R. Gardner in his capacity as Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union, scheduled to convene in Nairobi, Kenya, from September 28 to November 5.

The White House announced that the President has accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Herbert B. Thompson while serving as Head of the U.S. Delegation to the meeting of the Inter-American Council for Education, Science, and Culture (CIECC), scheduled to be held at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from September 23 - September 30.

September 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Carlton E. Turner, Director of the Drug Abuse Policy Office, Office of Policy Development.

As honorary chairman of the Boys Clubs of America, the President presented the 1982 National Boy of the Year Award to Edward Alameda, 16, a high school student from Tucson, Ariz. In the Roosevelt Room ceremony, the President met with representatives of the organization and the four runners-up for the award.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Ricardo de la Espriella of Panama to the White House for a working visit. President de la Espriella has accepted the invitation and will meet with President Reagan on October 1 to discuss issues of mutual interest.

The White House announced that the President has asked the Congress to provide $323.5 million to enable the Federal Aviation Administration to begin modernizing the National Air Space System and $15 million for the Department of Labor to hire additional coal mine inspection personnel.

September 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff; -- Rev. Leon Sullivan, head of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, Inc., who reported to the President on ``Hire One,'' a program which requests businesses to hire one disadvantaged, unemployed youth; -- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs, for an update on the current status of the economy presented by Martin Feldstein, Chairman-designate of the Council of Economic Advisers; -- chief executive officers of major New York corporations, who reported to the President on their accomplishments in the summer jobs program in New York.

In the evening, the President went to the State Department for a reception honoring Walter J. Stoessel, Jr., who is leaving his position as Deputy Secretary of State.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Tennessee as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on September 12, which caused extensive property damage.

September 24, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- James M. Rentschler, U.S. Ambassador to Malta, Henry Allen Holmes, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, Peter D. Constable, U.S. Ambassador to Zaire, David J. Fischer, U.S. Ambassador to the Seychelles, prior to their departure for their overseas posts.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors Christian Lingama-Toleque of the Central African Republic, Layachi Yaker of Algeria, Nuno Aguirre de Carcer of Spain, Carlos Despradel Rogues of the Dominican Republic, and Lucio Garcia del Solar of Argentina.

September 25, 1982
Early in the evening, the President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a reception for the artists appearing at the Festival at Ford's Theatre” and the sponsors contributing to the theatre through the festival.

September 27, 1982
Throughout the day, the President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The White House announced that the President has invited President-elect Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico to an informal meeting. The Mexican leader has accepted the invitation and will have a private meeting with the President in San Diego, Calif., on October 8.  President-elect de la Madrid will be inaugurated on December 1.

The White House announced that the President has invited president and Mrs. Soeharto of Indonesia to make a state visit to Washington. President and Mrs. Soeharto have accepted the invitation and will meet with the President at the White House on October 12. President Soeharto also will meet with  senior U.S. officials during the visit. President and Mrs. Soeharto will arrive in the United States on October 10 and depart on October 15.

The White House announced that the president has invited Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini of Italy to make an official working visit to Washington. The Prime Minister has accepted the invitation and will meet with the president at the White House on November 3. The Prime Minister also will meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other senior U.S. officials during his visit on November 3-4.  The President and the Prime Minister have previously met at the Ottawa and Versailles economic summits, the NATO summit in Bonn, and in Rome during the President's visit to Italy last June.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Fernando Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru to make a state visit to the United States. President Belaunde Terry has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President at the White House on November 9.

The White House announced that in accordance with the requirements of section 657 of the Department of Energy Organization Act, the President transmitted to the Congress the fourth annual report of the Department of Energy.

September 28, 1982
Throughout the day, the president met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

September 29, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Kentucky as a result of severe storms and flooding beginning on September 14, which caused extensive property damage.

September 30, 1982
The president met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Governors Scott M. Matheson of Utah, Bruce E. Babbit of Arizona, Richard A Snelling of Vermont, and Joseph E. Brennan of Maine, and a group of State legislators and local officials, to discuss the federalism initiative;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, to discuss drug abuse and women’s issues;
-- Everett Ellis Briggs, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, and John Blane, U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, prior to their departure for their overseas posts;
-- members of the Presidential Commission on Broadcasting to Cuba.

October 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
- members of the White House staff;
- President Ricardo de la Espriella of Panama.

The White House announced that the President has invited the Heads of State and Government of Canada, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Japan, as well as the President of the European Commission, to join him at Williamsburg, Va., for the 1983 summit of industrialized countries. The summit will take place over a 2-day period in the spring of 1983. The summit representatives come together annually to discuss current economic concerns. The last time the United States hosted an economic summit was in 1976 in Puerto Rico.

The President accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to Gilbert A. Robinson while serving as Acting Commissioner General of the United States Exhibition for the International Exhibition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1985. Since 1981 he has been Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency. He will continue to serve in this capacity.

The President announced his intention to accord the personal rank of Ambassador to Gerald J. Mossinghoff in his capacity as Head of the United States Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the Paris Industrial Property Convention in Geneva, Switzerland, to be held October 4-30.

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

October 2, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Amin Gemayel of Lebanon to make an official working visit to Washington. President Gemayel has accepted the invitation and will meet with President Reagan on October 19.

October 4, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President met with Robert P. Nimmo, Administrator of Veterans Affairs, who expressed his desire to leave that position by December 31. The President honored his request.

October 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Martin Feldstein, Chairman-designate of the Council of Economic Advisers;
-- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel;
-- Patriarch Diodorus of the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, who presented the President with the Great Cross of the Holy Sepulchre;
-- Governor Bill Clements of Texas, to discuss agriculture problems in that State;
-- members of the Invest-in-America National Council, who presented the President with the organization's American Eagle Award.

The President attended a White House reception for members of the Young Presidents Organization on the State Floor of the White House.

October 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Affairs;
-- Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President emissary in consultations in the Middle East, Acting Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, and members of the White House staff.

The White House announced that the President has granted a recess appointment to L. Clair Nelson to be a member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for a term of 6 years expiring August 30, 1988. He was nominated to the Senate on September 17.

October 7, 1982
The President left the White House for a trip to Nevada, California, and Texas.

The President announced that the Vice President will visit Africa this year as the personal representative of the President. At the invitation of the respective governments, the Vice President and Mrs. Bush will visit Cape Verde, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. They will also visit Bermuda. The purpose of the trip is to demonstrate the high value the Reagan administration places on those friendships, to develop better understanding on major bilateral and regional issues, and to emphasize American support for regional solutions to regional problems and opportunities.

October 8, 1982
The White House announced that the President has designated the following individuals to be members of the United States Delegation to attend the Inaugural Ceremonies of His Excellency Dr. Hernan Siles Zuazo, as President of the Republic of Bolivia, on October 10:
Personal Representative of the President, with the rank of Special Ambassador:
J. William Middendorf II, who will head the U.S. delegation
Representatives of the President, with the rank of Special Ambassador:
Edwin Gharst Corr, American Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia
Roger W. Fontaine, staff member, National Security Council
Frank B. Kimball, Counsellor, Agency for International Development
Samuel F. Hart, Director, Office of Andean Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
Samuel Haddad, deputy executive director, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
Brig. Gen. Frederick F. Woerner, Jr., Commander, 93^rd Infantry Brigrade, Panama
William M. McSweeny, president, Occidental International Corporation.

Early in the evening, the President arrived at Rancho del Cielo, his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., where he stayed for the weekend.

October 11, 1982
The White House announced that at the invitation of the President, a delegation from the Arab League will visit Washington for talks with the President on October 22. The invitation was accepted by His Majesty King Hassan II of Morocco, Chairman of the Arab League, on behalf of the delegation. The delegation will be headed by King Hassan and includes Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sa’ud al-Faysal, Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Beji Caid es-Sebsi, and Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs ‘Abd al-Halim Khaddam.  These discussions will provide an opportunity for an exchange of views between the Arab leaders and the President on the prospects for peace in the Middle East in light of recent initiatives taken by President Reagan and the summit conference of the Arab League held in Fez, Morocco.

October 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

October 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

October 14, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- group of business leaders who were attending a briefing at the White House on administration initiatives and programs;
-- the Cabinet.

The President granted a recess appointment to Martin S. Feldstein to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. The President also designated him Chairman. He was nominated to the Senate on September 14.

The President granted a recess appointment to Orville G. Bentley to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Science and Education. He was nominated to the Senate on September 17.

October 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council.

In the afternoon, the President attended a reception in the State Dining Room for the Florida Republican Party.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao of  Portugal to make an official working visit to the United States. The Prime Minister has accepted and will meet with the President at the White House on December 14.

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

October 16, 1982
The White House announced that at the invitation of the President, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi, Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marwan al-Kasim, and Secretary General of the Arab League Shazli Klibi will meet with him on October 22, as part of the Arab League delegation which is being headed by King Hassan II of Morocco. The delegation also includes Saudi Arabian minister of Foreign Affairs Sa’ud al-Faysal, Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs Beji Caid es-Sebsi, and Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs ‘Abd al-Halim Khaddam.

October 17, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

October 18, 1982
the President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the National Venture Capital Association, who presented the President with the 1982 William A. Steigert Award;
-- members of the Military Manpower Task Force;
-- the Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, to discuss civil rights enforcement;
-- Senator Nicholas F. Brady of New Jersey;
-- King Olav V of Norway.

The White House announced that the President has invited Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany to make an official working visit to Washington. The Chancellor has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President on November 15. During his visit, the Chancellor also will meet with other senior U.S. officials. Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hans-Dietrich Genscher will accompany the chancellor.

October 19, 1982
The President attended a White House reception on the South Grounds for members of the Republican National Committee.

The President announced his intention to nominate Wilson A. Wallis to be the United States Alternate Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a term of five years, United States Alternate Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of 5 years, United States Alternate Governor of the Asian Development Bank, and United States Alternate Governor of the African Development Fund. He would succeed Myer Rashish. He is currently Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and will continue to serve in that capacity.

October 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

President called St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog and Milwaukee Brewers manager Harvey Kuenn to congratulate them on their participation in the 1982 World Series.

October 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The White House announced that the President has granted a recess appointment to William Gene  Lesher to be a member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank (new position). He will continue to serve as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics.

The President granted a recess appointment to Caroline H. Hume to be a member of the National Museum Services Board, Institute of Museum Services, for a term expiring December 6, 1985. She was nominated to the Senate on August 4. She would succeed Dorothy Graham-Wheeler.

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

October 23, 1982
The President designated Allen Wallis, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, as his Personal Representative for the 1983 Summit of Industrialized Countries. He also named Michael A. McManus, Deputy Assistant to the President, to be the coordinator for administration of the summit. The summit has been scheduled for May 28-30, 1983, in Williamsburg, Va.

The White House announced that the President has granted recess appointments to the following individuals as members of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation: Frank J. Donatelli, who will succeed Marc Sandstrom, and Daniel M. Rathburn, who will succeed Josephine Marie Worthy.

October 24, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

October 25, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- former President Gerald R. Ford;
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of Polish-American leaders, to review the current situation in Poland and to give them a report on the administration’s position;
-- the Cabinet Council at Commerce and Trade to discuss high technology and minority business issues.

The White House announced that at the invitation of the Presidents of Brazil, Columbia, and Costa Rica, the President will make a working visit to Latin America November 30 to December 4. He will leave Washington on November 30. On December 1 and 2, he will be in Brazil as the guest of President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo.  On December 3, he will be in Columbia as the guest of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas.  On December 4, he will be in Costa Rica as the guest of President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, returning to Washington that evening.

October 26, 1982
Prior to his trip to Raleigh, N.C., the President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

October 27, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of small business leaders, to discuss their views on administration policies;
-- Professor George Stigler of the University of Chicago, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.

The President attended a luncheon in the Roosevelt Room at the White House for members of the family of the late President Theodore Roosevelt and trustees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, a nonprofit historical Society public service organization chartered by Congress in 1920.  The Association presented to the President, or display in the Roosevelt Room, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to President Roosevelt in 1906 for his efforts in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

October 28, 1982
The White House announced that President has invited President Yitzhak Navon of Israel to make a working visit to Washington.  President Navon has accepted the invitation and will meet with President Reagan at the White House on November 23.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini of Italy to make the opening speech at the Conference on Free elections during the Prime Minister's visit to Washington on November 3-4. Prime Minister has accepted the invitation and will address the Conference on November 4.

October 29, 1982
Following his trip to Roswell, New Mex., the President went to Camp David, Md., for the weekend.

October 31, 1982
The President returned to the White House from Camp David, Md.

November 1, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President went to George Washington University Hospital to visit Edward J. Rollins, Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, who was recovering from a mild stroke.

The President announced his intention to appoint Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, to be an Executive Branch Commissioner-Observer on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He would succeed Stephen E. Palmer, Jr.

November 2, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, for lunch;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs.

In the evening, the President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a private dinner in the Residence for Vice President and Mrs. Bush, Secretary of State and Mrs. George P. Schultz, and senior administration officials and personal friends and their guests. During the dinner they followed the election results.

The President granted research recess appointments to the following individuals:
Manuel H. Johnson, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Economic Policy). He was nominated to the Senate on October 1. He will succeed Paul Craig Roberts.

Edward A. Knapp to be Director of the National Science Foundation. He has served as Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation since September 10. He will succeed John Brooks Slaughter.

November 3, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The White House announced that President Fernando Belaunde Terry of Peru has written President Reagan, advising him that because of unexpected circumstances, he will be unable to make the state visit to Washington scheduled for November 9.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel to meet with him at the White House on November 19. The Prime Minister, who will be in the United States on a private visit, has accepted the invitation.

November 4, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- regional political directors of the 1980 Reagan-Bush Presidential campaign.

The President designated George A Keyworth II, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Deputy Secretary of Transportation Darrell M. Trent as United States Representative and Alternate Representative, respectively, to the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society.

The President requested the Congress to provide additional appropriations totaling $44 million in fiscal year 1983 to upgrade the U.S. capabilities in the field of international radio broadcasting through the Board for International Broadcasting in the United States Information Agency.

November 5, 1982
The President met at the White House with members of the White House staff.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 12th annual report on hazardous materials transportation.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Antonio dos Santos Ramalho Eanes of Portugal to make a state visit to the United States. President Eanes has accepted and will meet with President Reagan on February 10, 1983.

November 6, 1982
The President attended a luncheon in the Residence for regional chairman of the Republican National Committee. Other participants in the luncheon included Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental affairs Richard S. Williamson, Richard Richards, chairman, Betty Heitman, vice chairman, and Roger Moore, general counsel, the Republican National Committee.

November 7, 1982
The President met at the White House with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

The President and Mrs. Reagan attended a concert given by 20-year-old pianist Ken Noda in the East Room at the White House. The concert began the second season of the “In Performance at the White House” series, which features renowned masters and promising young musicians. Violinist Itzak Perlman is the master of ceremonies for this season’s four-concert series. The concert was taped for later broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

November 8, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session;
-- Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, U.S. Army, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe;
-- the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade.

The White House announced that at the request of the Government of Israel and Israeli President Yitzhak Navon, President Navon’s planned meeting with President Reagan on November 23 has been rescheduled for January 5, 1983.

The White House announced that the President has invited King Hussein I of Jordan to make a working visit to Washington. The King has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President at the White House on December 21.

November 9, 1982
President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session;
-- the Vice President, for a luncheon meeting to discuss the Vice President's upcoming seven-nation tour of Africa and visit to Bermuda;
-- a group of his advisers for a second budget review session;
-- the National Security Council.

The White House announced with that the President has invited Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria to make a working visit to Washington. The Chancellor has accepted the invitation for a date to be mutually agreed upon by the two governments.

November 10, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs;
-- the Cabinet Council on Human Resources;
-- Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon;
-- Everett Grindstaff, President of Lions International, to discuss international efforts by the organization to combat drug abuse;
-- Joan M. Clark, Director General of the Foreign Service, and Rozanne L. Ridgeway, U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Germany;
-- House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, to discuss the congressional agenda.

The President announced his intention to designate Al Cardenas, as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business Ownership. Mr. Cardenas has served as member of the Committee since February 6.

In the evening, the President went to the Washington Cathedral, where he attended the portion of a ceremony honoring Vietnam veterans.

November 11, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session.

November 12, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan ‘Ali of Egypt;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session.

The President requested the Congress to provide $5.3 million to Radio Marti to begin radio broadcasting to the people of Cuba in 1983; $30 million for the Department of the Treasury to continue and expand Operation Exodus, which is aimed at preventing the illegal export of high technology material; and $495,000 for the National Commission on Student Financial Assistance to enable the Commission to complete its work by July 1, 1983. The President also transmitted changes in the method of financing some military assistance programs, which would result in a technical reduction of $339.5 million in the 1983 request for appropriations and a reappropriation of $120 million from 1982 to 1983, to enable the Department of Defense to proceed with the planned multiyear procurement of two KC-10 tanker aircraft. The President also transmitted a request by the legislative branch to increase 1983 appropriations by $36.1 million. By law, legislative branch requests are transmitted without change.

November 13, 1982
The President went to the Soviet Embassy in Washington to sign the book of condolences for the death of President L. I. Brezhnev.

In the afternoon, the President and Mrs. Reagan left the White House for a trip to Chicago, Ill., to attend a memorial service for Mrs. Reagan’s father, Dr. Loyal Davis. Following the service at the John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium, the President and Mrs. Reagan attended a reception at the Nickerson Mansion and then returned to Washington D.C.

November 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet.

The President transmitted to the Congress:
-- the first annual report on Alaska's mineral resources, covering 1982;
-- the 17th annual report of the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
-- the 13th and final annual report of the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity;
-- a memorandum of law, prepared by the Attorney General in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, describing authorities available to the President to respond to a severe energy supply interruption or reduction of petroleum products available to the United States.

November 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Secretary of State George P. Shultz.

The President left the White House for a trip to Louisiana and Florida.

November 18, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr., and House Minority Leader Robert H. Michel;
-- the National Security Council.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 26th annual report on the Trade Agreements Program, 1981-1982.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark to meet with him at the White House. The Prime Minister has accepted and will meet with the President on December 13.

November 19, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session;
-- the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss an overview of the budget;
-- the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade.

The White House announced that at the invitation of President Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras, President Reagan will visit Tegucigalpa on December 4 for a meeting with President Suazo.

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

November 20, 1982
The White House announced that during the President’s forthcoming visit to Central America, where he will be the guest of President Luis Alberto Alvarez Monge of Costa Rica and President Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras, he will meet with two additional Central American leaders. The President will meet with President Jose Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala while he is in Honduras. While visiting Costa Rica, the President will meet with President Alvaro Alfredo Magana Borjo of El Salvador.

November 21, 1982
The President returned to the White House in the afternoon, following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

November 22, 1982
the President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- members of the Senior Executive Service for an awards ceremony.

The President held a meeting in the Cabinet Room to announce his decision on the land-based component of the strategic forces by authorizing the development and deployment of the MX intercontinental ballistic missile. Participants in the meeting included Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark, Senators Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, John Tower of Texas, Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Paul Laxalt of Nevada, and Ted Stevens of Alaska, and Representatives Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., of Massachusetts, Robert H. Michel of Illinois, William S. Broomfield of Michigan, Thomas S. Foley of Washington, Jack Edwards of Alabama, Marjorie S. Holt of Maryland, Clement J. Zablocki of Wisconsin, Joseph P. Addabbo of New York, Jim Wright of Texas, and Richard B. Cheney of Wyoming.

In a ceremony in the Oval Office, the President received diplomatic credentials from Ambassadors U Kyee Myint of Burma, Simon Insonere of Rwanda, Mocktar Georges Abdoulaye-Mbingt of Gabon, Joseph Diatta of Niger, Kasem S. Kasemsri of Thailand, Ali Mlahaili of the Comoros.

The President and Secretary of Labor Raymond J. Donovan announced that John Van de Water has been named Special Assistant Secretary of Labor. Mr Van de Water has resigned his position with the National Labor Relations Board effective December 16 and is expected to assume his new responsibilities thereafter.

November 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Governor Ed Herschler of Wyoming;
-- the National Security Council;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs.

In a Rose Garden ceremony, the President was presented with a 50-pound turkey for Thanksgiving by representatives of the National Turkey Foundation (NFT). The occasion marked the federation's 35th presentation to the Nation's First Family and commemoration of the holiday. The turkey was grown especially for the occasion by William H. Prestage, President of NTF, who was joined by Lew Walts, NFT executive vice president, and members of their families, for the ceremony.

The President left the White House for Rancho del Cielo, his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., where he and Mrs. Reagan spent the Thanksgiving weekend.

November 27, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the state of Hawaii as a result of the impact of Hurricane Iwa, beginning on November 23, which caused extensive property damage.

November 29, 1982
The President left Rancho del Cielo, his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., where he spent the Thanksgiving holiday, for an appearance at the annual convention of the National League of Cities in Los Angeles.

November 30, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Republican Members of the Senate and House of Representatives;
-- members of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.

December 1, 1982
The White House announced that the President has transmitted to the Congress 1983 amended budget requests totaling $6.8 billion. These requests would provide the following:
-- $6.7 billion for the Department of Agriculture to enable Commodity Credit Corporation to continue to meet its current obligations;
-- $148.9 million for the Department of Justice to implement the President's new program to combat drug related organized crime activities nationwide and handle workload increases relating to illegal immigration and other areas of Department responsibility;
-- $2 million for the Department of Commerce to implement the Industrial Technology Partnerships program, which seeks to eliminate barriers to private sector cooperative research in development ventures;
-- reductions of $2.4 million for the Department of State, $1.5 million for the Maritime Commission, and $1 million for United States Information Agency, which are possible because of reduced program requirements.

The President transmitted to the Congress the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drawdown Plan, Amendment No. 4, and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Drawdown and Distribution Report. The two reports are being made pursuant to the Energy Emergency Preparedness Act 1982.

December 2, 1982
The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan to make a working visit to Washington. The Prime Minister has accepted the invitation and will meet with the President on January 18, 1983.

The White House announced that the President has transmitted to the Congress the Aggregate Report on Personnel, pursuant to title 3, United States Code, section 113, for fiscal year 1982.

December 6, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss his trip to Latin America, private sector initiatives, a review of the fiscal year 1984 budget process, and U.S. participation in the Geneva, Switzerland, meeting on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;
-- Republican Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss production of the MX missile;
-- Democratic Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss production of the MX missile;
-- Republican Members of the House of Representatives, to discuss production of the MX missile.

The President hosted a reception in the Roosevelt Room for political parties in the administration who were active in the 1982 congressional campaigns.

The White House announced that the President has invited President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to make a working visit to Washington. President Mubarak has accepted and will meet with President Reagan on January 27, 1983.

The President requested the Congress to provide $1,626.2 million for the Department of Agriculture to fully fund the food stamp program and the child nutrition program for fiscal year 1983.

The President requested a reduction of $31 million in 1983 for the Department of Interior. This reduction is possible because the Congress provided in the 1982 supplemental appropriations bill $30 million that had been requested in the fiscal year 1983 budget to pay court costs resulting from land acquisition by the National Park Service. In addition, the National Park Service has reduced the estimate of condemnation award costs by $1 million.

December 7, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Members of Congress.

The White House announced that the President and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky of Austria will meet on February 3, 1983. The President's invitation to the Chancellor to make an official working visit and the Chancellor's acceptance of a mutually convenient date were announced by the White House on November 9.

The President transmitted to the Congress the annual report covering efforts of the Department of Energy to implement provisions of the Emergency Energy Conservation Act since its enactment on November 5, 1979.

December 8, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Harry N. Walters, Administrator-designate of Veterans Affairs;
-- members of the National Endowment for the Humanities;
-- The U.S. Savings Bonds Volunteer Committee;
-- Governor Scott Matheson of Utah, chairman of the National Governors’ Association;
-- members of the House Ways and Means Committee, to discuss the Caribbean Basin Initiative.

December 9, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture;
-- Ambassador Phillip C. Habib, the President’s Special Representative for the Middle East, Acting Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, and members of the White House staff.

December 10, 1982
The President met with the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Members of Congress;
-- Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, Special Representative for Negotiations, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
-- the National Security Council;
-- Governors Robert Orr of Indiana, Richard Snelling of Vermont, and James Thompson of Illinois.

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

December 11, 1982
The President declared a major disaster for the state of Missouri as a result of severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on or about December 1, which caused property damage.

December 12, 1982
The President returned to the White House following a weekend stay at Camp David, Md.

The President and Mrs. Reagan participated in the taping of the NBC television program “Christmas in Washington” at the National Building Museum.

December 13, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark, President of the European Communities;
-- Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor of Mexico.

The President declared a major disaster for the State of Arkansas as a result of tornadoes, severe storms, and flooding beginning on or about December 2, which caused extensive property damage.

The President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a Christmas party for Members of Congress on the State Floor of the White House.

December 14, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Members of Congress, to discuss production of the MX missile;
-- Republican congressional leaders;
-- members of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee;
-- administration officials and members of the White House staff, to discuss the Nation’s economy and the fiscal year 1984 Federal budget.

The President declared a major disaster for the state of Illinois as a result of severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on or about December 2, which caused extensive property damage.

The President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a Christmas party for members of the press on the State Floor of the White House.

December 15, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Foreign Minister Elie Salem of Lebanon, the Vice President, Acting Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam, and other administration officials;
-- administration officials and members of the White House staff, to discuss with the fiscal year 1984 federal budget.

The President and Mrs. Reagan hosted a Christmas party for members of the press on the State Floor of the White House.

December 16, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet, to discuss education issues;
-- the Vice President, for lunch;
-- the National Security Council.

The White House announced that the President has invited Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain to make an official working visit to the United States. The Prime Minister has accepted and will meet with the President in June 1983.

The President transmitted to the Congress the 16th annual report of developments in 1981 in connection with the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965.

The President transmitted to the Congress an amended 1983 budget request providing a reduction of $627 million for the Department of Health and Human Services. The reduction reflects the decision to transfer special supplemental food programs to the Department of Agriculture. He also transmitted amended 1983 requests in the amount of $20 million for the Department of Interior to enable the Bureau of Reclamation to initiate two new major construction projects and fund eight small reclamation project loans.

December 17, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs, to discuss the Federal Financing Bank;
-- the Cabinet Council on Commerce and Trade, to discuss trade policy.

The President went horseback riding in the afternoon at the U.S. Park Police Horse Mounted Training Center in Washington, D.C.

The President attended a National Security Council staff Christmas party at Blair house.

The President transmitted to the Congress 1983 appropriation language for the Department of Housing and Urban Development that increases the limitation on Federal Housing Administration-insured loans by $6.1 billion. This increase is necessary because of increased demand for these insured loans as a result of lower interest rates.

December 20, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- a group of his advisers for a budget review session;
-- Secretary of State George P. Shultz, who reported on his recent trip to Europe.

December 21, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- Ambassador Philip C. Habib, the President's Special Representative for the Middle East, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth W. Dam, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark, and Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Robert C. McFarlane.

December 22, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

December 23, 1982
The President met at the White House with:
-- members of the White House staff;
-- the Cabinet Council on Management and Administration;
-- the Vice President, for lunch.

The President recess appointed John C. Miller as a member of the National Labor Relations Board, vice John Harold Fanning. The President also intends to designate him as Chairman. On December 1, the President nominated Mr. Miller to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. The Senate adjourned without taking action on the nomination.

December 25, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan spent Christmas at the White House with their daughter Patti Davis and friends.

December 27, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan left the White House for a trip to Phoenix, Ariz., where they remained overnight at the home of Mrs. Reagan's mother, Mrs. Loyal Davis.

December 28, 1982
The President and Mrs. Reagan left Phoenix, Ariz., and traveled to Los Angeles, Calif.

The White House announced that at the invitation of the President, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the Duke of Edinburgh will pay an official visit to the United States from February 26 to March 7, 1983.

The White House announced that the President has designated Clinton Dan McKinnon as Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board for an additional term of 1 year expiring on December 31, 1983.

December 29, 1982
The President met with members of the White House staff at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Calif.  He then left Los Angeles for a stay in Palm Springs.

December 31, 1982
The President met with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs William P. Clark at the home of Walter and Lenore Annenberg, where he and Mrs. Reagan were staying through New Year's Day.