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The White House Web Server
This site contains a vast array of information about the White House and its occupants including:
- News and Policies
- Today's press releases, hot topics, and the latest policy news.
- The President's Cabinet
- Photos and information about the Cabinet members.
- Latest Federal Statistics
- Connections to the latest economic statistics including: employment, income, international, output, production, and social
statistics such as: crime, demography, education, and health.
- President Bush's Policies in Focus
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Presidential Resources
- American Presidency Project
- The project was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. The archives contain 69,002 documents related to the study of the Presidency.
- Presidential messages
- Executive Orders
- Proclamations
- Press Conferences
- Saturday Radio Addresses
- Fireside Chats
- Party Convention Addresses
- State of the Union Addresses
- Inaugural Addresses
- Addresses to Congress, to the Nation, to the United Nations, to Foreign Legislatures,
- and more.
- Presidents of the United States (POTUS) (Internet Public Library)
- Extensive web pages for each President, Washington to Bush.
Presidential Addresses and Papers
- Addresses (Inaugural) of the Presidents
- From George Washington 1789 to George Bush 1989.
- Addresses -- State of the Union
- 1992 -- 2006
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- William Jefferson Clinton
- George Walker Bush
- Messages and Papers of the Preseidents, 1789-1913
- This historic set is available full-text at the American Presidency Project
- Public Papers of the Presidents via University of Michigan.
- The Public Papers of the Presidents are being digitized and mounted at the University of Michigan Digtal Library.
- They are both browsable and searchable.
- Coverage: 1929-2000.
- This collection includes the privately published Franklin Delano Roosevelt papers which have never before been readily available.
- Public Papers of the President via GPO Access.
- The Public Papers of the Presidents, which is published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), began in 1957 and is
an official series in which Presidential writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature are made available.
- Currently, GPO Access contains the Public Papers for Presidents George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. Additional
volumes covering the administrations of Presidents Hoover, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and
Reagan will be made available from GPO Access in the future.
- The bound Public Papers are also available in the Government Documents stacks.
- GS4.113 [1929-1983]
- AE 2.114 [1984-to date]
- Papers of George Washington
- Mounted at the Library of Congress, American Memory. The collection consists of over 65,000 letters and manuscripts. According
to the website, this is the largest collection of President Washington's papers in the world.
- Papers of Thomas Jefferson
- The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000
documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as
a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes.
- Papers of James Madison
- The James Madison Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consist of approximately 12,000 items captured
in some 72,000 digital images.
- Papers of Abraham Lincoln
- The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. Most of the 20,000
items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65. In its online presentation, the Abraham Lincoln Papers
comprises approximately 61,000 images and 10,000 transcriptions.
- Presidential Directives and Executive Orders
- Maintained by the Federation of American Scientists. This site includes National Security information and Presidential documents
(directives and executive orders) concerned with national security.
- Presidential Directives and Where to Find Them
- This a list of resources or bibliography mounted at the Library of Congress website.
- Presidential Pardons
- Hosted by the University of Pittsburgh--School of Law. This is a rich site with a wide range of resources, including:
- Presidential pardons--procedures
- Notable pardons
- Hearings on pardons
- History and development
- Bibliographies, articles, and comments
- And a FAQ page about pardons
- Presidential Pardons
- Maintained by the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
- Clemency Statistics, 1900 to the present
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- The Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents is published every Monday by the Office of the Federal Register, National
Archives and Records Administration and contains statements, messages, and other Presidential materials released by the White
House during the preceding week.
- Coverage: 1993 to date
Presidents and Presidential Libraries
- Clinton Presidential Materials Project (NARA)
- The Clinton Presidential Materials Project's primary mission is the preservation of the Presidential records, personal and
donated papers, and memorabilia of the Clinton Administration.
- The first White House Web Site was developed during the Clinton Administration. After the first version appeared in 1994,
three more versions followed. The White House took "snap shots" of each version at a point in time determined by the White
House staff.
- Clinton Presidential Center
- The Clinton Library, which includes an archival research facility and a museum, is responsible for preserving and processing
in perpetuity the official Presidential records, audiovisual materials, and artifacts of the Clinton Administration
- Presidential Libraries
- Mounted at the National Archives.
- Covers: Herbert Hoover to William Clinton.
Executive Agency Resources and Publications
- Central Intelligence Agency
- The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Truman. The
National Security Act charged the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) with coordinating the nation's intelligence activities
and correlating,evaluating, and disseminating intelligence which affects national security.
- Council of Economic Advisors
- The CEA was established by the Employment Act of 1946 to provide the President with objective economic analysis and advice
on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues.
- Publications
- Council on Environmental Quality
- The Council on Environmental Quality coordinates federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White
House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives.
- Publications
- Domestic Policy Council
- Under President Bush, the Domestic Policy Council oversees major domestic policy areas such as education, health, welfare,
justice, federalism, transportation, environment, labor, and veterans' affairs.
- National Economic Council
- The NEC was established in 1993 within the Office of Policy Development and is part of the Executive Office of the President.
It was created for the purpose of advising the President on matters related to U.S. and global economic policy.
- National Security council
- The National Security Council is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters
with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials.
- National Security Archives
This site is mounted by George Washington University. The National Security Archive includes declassified documents acquired
throught the FOIA.
- Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives
- The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives has the lead responsibility to promote the President's agenda to strengthen
and expand grassroots and faith-based services.
- Publications
- Office of Budget and Management
- OMB's predominant mission is to assist the President in overseeing the preparation of the Federal budget and to supervise
its administration in Executive Branch agencies. In helping to formulate the President's spending plans, OMB evaluates the
effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, assesses competing funding demands among agencies, and sets funding
priorities.
- Publications
- Office of Homeland Security
- The mission of the Office will be to develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure
the United States from terrorist threats or attacks. The Office will coordinate the executive branch's efforts to detect,
prepare for, prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks within the United States.
- Office of National AIDS Policy
- The Office of National AIDS Policy will focus on coordinating our continuing domestic efforts to reduce the number of new
infections in the U.S., in particular in segments of the population that are experiencing new or renewed increases in the
rate of infection.
- Office of National Drug Control Policy
- The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program.
The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence,
and drug-related health consequences.
- Publications
- Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was created to provide the President with timely policy advice and to coordinate
the science and technology investment.
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