POTUS Events: Auto Industry Checkup

President Obama, as he walked to the oval office yesterday for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. (Photo by Amos Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)

By Sarah Lovenheim
President Obama's routine presidential and economic briefings are followed by a 12:15 p.m. address on auto emissions and fuel efficiency standards from the White House Rose Garden.

At 1:45 p.m., the president meets with former secretaries of state Henry A. Kissinger and George Schultz, former defense secretary William Perry and Sam Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. At 3:30 p.m., Obama speaks at a ceremony honoring National Small Business award winners. He meets with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates at 4:30 p.m.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs holds the daily press briefing at 1:30 p.m.

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