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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release December 11, 1998

OFFICIAL DELEGATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST

The President
The First Lady
Edward S. Walker, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Israel Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State
Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture William M. Daley, Secretary of Commerce Senator Arlen Specter
Senator Paul Wellstone
Representative Nick Rahall
Representative Sam Gejdenson
Representative Tom Lantos
Representative Sander Levin
Representative Norm Sisisky
Representative Peter Deutsch
Representative Jane Harman
Representative Alcee Hastings
Representative Rick Lazio
Representative Jon Fox
Representative Brad Sherman
Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security

Affairs
Phillip Caplan, Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary Maria Echaveste, Assistant to the President and Deputy

Chief of Staff to the President
Bruce Lindsey, Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel

to the President
Joe Lockhart, Assistant to the President and White House

Press Secretary
Melanne Verveer, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff

to the First Lady
Doug Sosnik, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and

Strategy
Dennis Ross, Special Middle East Coordinator, Department of

State
Elaine Shocas, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State Mary Mel French, Chief of Protocol

Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and

Asian Affairs
James P. Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State for

Public Affairs and Spokesman
Andrew Pincus, General Counsel, Department of Commerce Marsha Berry, Deputy Assistant to the President and

Director of Communications
Kelly Craighead, Deputy Assistant to the President and

Director of Special Projects
Nancy Hernreich, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director

of Oval Office Operations
Al Maldon, Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative

Affairs
Capricia Marshall, Deputy Assistant to the President and

Social Secretary
Dan Rosenthal, Deputy Assistant to the President and

Director of Advance
Amy Weiss, Deputy Assistant to the President and

Deputy Press Secretary
John E. Herbst, Consul General
Bruce Riedel, Special Assistant to the President and NSC

Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs Robert Malley, Special Assistant to the President for Arab

Israeli Affairs and NSC Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs Aaron Miller, Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator, Department
of State Peter Yeo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Legislative Affairs Toni Verstandig, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Near East and Asian Affairs

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