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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release March 5, 1999

OFFICIAL DELEGATION TO CENTRAL AMERICA

Official Delegation
The President
The First Lady
Anne W. Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Donald J. Planty, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala James Francis Creagan, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Lino Gutierrez, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State (Guatemala) William Richardson, Secretary of Energy General Barry McCaffrey, Director, National Drug Control Policy Office (Guatemala)
Senator Robert Graham (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras) Representative Xavier Becerra
Representative Peter Deutsch
Representative Silvestre Reyes
Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
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 Press Secretary Doug Sosnik, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy and Strategy
Melanne Verveer, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the First Lady
Kenneth H. ("Buddy") MacKay, Special Envoy of the President and Secretary of State for the Americas J. Brian Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development Louis Caldera, Secretary of the Army
Elaine Shocas, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State (Guatemala) Mark Gearan, Director, Peace Corps (Nicaragua and Honduras) Mark Schneider, Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala) Kris Balderston, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Cabinet Secretary
Marsha Berry, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Communications
Lael Brainard, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council (Guatemala) Kelly Craighead, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Special Projects
Janet Murguia, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for Legislative Affairs
Barry Toiv, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary
Richard Siewert, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary
General Charles Wilhelm, Commander in Chief, U.S. South Command (SOUTHCOM) (Honduras)
Peter Romero, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
George Munoz, President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala)
David Pryor, Deputy Chief of Protocol, Department of State Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice
Eric Schwartz, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs

Traveling Party
Laura Graham, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Scheduling
Holly Hammonds, Special Assistant to the President for International Economic Policy (El Salvador, Guatemala) Kirk Hanlin, Special Assistant to the President and Trip Director David Leavy, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Press Secretary and NSC Senior Director for Public Affairs Julia Payne, Special Assistant to the President and Assistant Press Secretary
Jaycee Pribulsky, Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Advance
Lula Rodriguez, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Rick Denniston, Department of State Liaison to the National Security Council for Central American Task Force (El Salvador and Guatemala) Charles Duncan, Director, Office of White House Liaison, Department of State (Guatemala)
Nicole Elkon, Director for Planning, National Security Council Gerard Gallucci, Director of Inter-American Affairs, National Security Council (El Salvador and Guatemala) Michael Hammer, Assistant Press Secretary and Director of Public Affairs, National Security Council
Tom Malinowski, Senior Director for Speechwriting, National Security Council (Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala) Ted Widmer, Director for Speechwriting, National Security Council (El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala) Laura Marcus, Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff (El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala)
Mona Sutphen, Executive Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (El Salvador and Guatemala) Betty Currie, Personal Secretary to the President Kris Engskov, President's Aide
Suzanne George, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State (Guatemala) Sarah Gegenheimer, Assistant Press Secretary David Goodfriend, Deputy Staff Secretary (El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala)
Rose M. Likins, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State (Guatemala)
Heather Riley, Assistant to the Press Secretary Dorinda Salcido, Deputy Director of Press Advance Michael Teague, Press Assistant
Whitney Williams, Trip Director for the First Lady Alejandro Wolff, Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State (Guatemala)

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