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Index is organized alphabetically by title and/or subject.
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Advisory Board on Race
Systematic
Miscellaneous Series: This
series contains records regarding the President’s Initiative on Race (PIR). The
series includes files from the Executive Director, Judith Winston. The records
include correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and calendars.
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to
Finding Aid
Systematic
Meetings Series: This
series contains records regarding the Advisory Board’s meetings. The meetings
were open to the public and held in Denver, Colorado; San Jose, California;
Akron, Ohio; Fairfax, Virginia; and Phoenix, Arizona. The series includes
correspondence, notes, and schedules.
Link to
Finding Aid
Systematic
Reports Series: This
series is divided into two sub-series, Reports Drafts and Weekly Reports to
POTUS. The Reports Drafts sub-series contains drafts of the “Report of the
Advisory Board of the President’s Initiative on Race.” The Weekly Reports to
POTUS sub-series contains memorandums written to the President and the Advisory
Board from Judith Winston. The reports include Advisory Board and PIR weekly
activities.
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Finding Aid
Systematic
PR/Media Series: This
collection consists of the federal records of the President’s Advisory Board on
Race. The PR/Media Series includes speeches and talking points for
presentations, media requests, press releases, press packages, transcripts from
recorded appearances and general information on the PIR.
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Finding Aid
Systematic
Correspondence Series: This
collection consists of the federal records of the President’s Advisory Board on
Race. The Advisory Board was established in June 1997 by Executive Order 13050
as part of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race (PIR). The Advisory Board
advised the President on matters involving race and racial reconciliation.
After submitting its final report to the President, One America in the 21st
Century: Forging a New Future, the Board terminated on September 30, 1998. As a
result of the report and building on the efforts of the PIR, the President
established the White House Office on the President’s Initiative for One
America. The Correspondence Series contains four subseries: [PIR
Correspondence], PIR Correspondence, Invitations, and Administrative
Correspondence.
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Systematic
Programs and Forums
Series: This collection consists of the federal records of the President’s
Advisory Board on Race. The Programs and Forums Series includes correspondence,
memorandums, background materials, organization brochures, and notes concerning
forums and programs that shared the same goals as the PIR. Also included is information about the
Corporate Forums, which gave businesses the opportunity to discuss strategies
to create a racially diversified work place.
Link to
Finding Aid
Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets
Systematic
Created in 1998, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets
in the United States (PACHA, aka PCHA) was charged with investigating what
happened to the assets of victims of the Holocaust that ended up in the
possession of the United States Federal Government. Research constituted the
heart of PCHA’s work. Records
of the PCHA deal with the issue of reparations, activities of Chase National
Bank during World War II, administrative files of the PCHA, and includes drafts
of chapters, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, fact sheets,
researcher notes, and findings and recommendations. The final report
of the Commission, “Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of
the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and
Staff Report,” was submitted to President Clinton in December 2000.
Link to
Finding Aid
Advisory
Commission on Public Diplomacy
FOIA
2006-0200-F
This
collection consists of records related to The
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, part of the United
States Information Agency (USIA). The Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
merged with the Department of State in October of 1999. The Commission provided
oversight of U.S. Government activities intended to understand, inform, and influence
foreign publics. The files contain correspondence, email memoranda, news
articles, reports, and records related to commission appointments.
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Africa
FOIA 2006-0947-F
This collection consists of records that relate to the Export-Import Bank and their involvement in the
HIV/AIDS program for Africa. The records relate to the 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa and the Clinton Administration’s efforts to
obtain funding for African debt relief, specifically the Cologne Initiative and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
debt initiative. The records consist of correspondence, speeches, memoranda, talking points and public press releases
regarding the announcement by the Ex-Im Bank of their loan program. The collection includes email regarding HIV/AIDS programs
in Africa, specifically email to and from Sandra Thurman, former director of the Office of the National Aids Policy.
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Aid
Albright, Madeleine
FOIA 2009-1156-F
This collection consists of records from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's trips to South America in October 1997 and August 2000. These materials include National Security Council cover sheets and Department of State memos explaining which documents should be contained in the Secretary's briefing books.
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FOIA 2009-0623-F
This collection consists of records concerning Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s trip to Mongolia in May 1998. Secretary Albright’s trip was to affirm the United States’ commitment to further cooperation between the two countries and to show support for Mongolia’s developing democracy and economic reforms. The records consist of cables and emails. The cables include background information, from the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, relating to recent history and Mongolian politics. The emails include remarks made by Secretary Albright to the Mongolian Parliament. Also included in the emails are press releases of a joint statement by Secretary Albright and the Prime Minister of Mongolia, Tsahiagiyn Elbegdori and the text of a press conference held by the Secretary and Prime Minister.
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Al-Jawary, Khalid
FOIA 2009-0258-F
This collection consists of records concerning requests for the prison release or deportation of Khalid Al-Jawary, also known as Khaled El-Jassem. Al-Jawary, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), was arrested in Italy in 1991 and then extradited to the United States. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for three failed bombing attempts in New York City in 1973. The records consist mainly of letters, news articles, and court transcripts. Letters include correspondence from Al-Jawary to the National Security Advisor and Department of Justice Officials. There are also letters from Palestinian officials requesting Al-Jawary’s release or deportation. News articles and excerpts covering Al-Jawary’s trial were enclosures to Al-Jawary’s letters which were intended to support his argument for release from prison.
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Area 51
FOIA 2006-0527-F
This collection consists
of email and cables concerning “Area 51.” “Area 51” is an unofficial title
that often refers to an area in southern Nevada containing United States Air
Force (USAF) facilities. The USAF does not recognize owning or operating any
facility regarded as “Area 51.” They do recognize operations at the Nellis
Range Complex which includes an Operating Location near Groom Lake, Nevada.
However, much of the information regarding activities at these sites remains
classified.
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Arms Trafficking
FOIA 2006-0685-FThis collection includes
materials relating to Viktor Bout (or Butt), a suspected international arms
smuggler, the so-called “Merchant of Death.”
The records include cables and email regarding travel by members of the
National Security Council (NSC) to South Africa, and a meeting of the South
African Development Commission (SADC).
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Arnold, Richard Sheppard (1936 – 2004)
FOIA
2006-0188-F
This
collection consists of records related to
Richard Sheppard Arnold’s consideration for two U.S. Supreme Court vacancies
and Attorney General of the United States. Arnold was a well-respected
Judge for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The files contain
handwritten notes, reports, biographies, memorandum, clippings, articles,
email, and correspondence recommending Richard Arnold’s nomination to replace
Harry Blackmun on the Supreme Court.
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Asian Economic Crisis
FOIA 2007-1908-F
This collection consists of records relating to communications between President William Jefferson
Clinton, Kim Young-sam, President of the Republic of Korea, and Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister of Japan, concerning the
Asian Economic Crisis. The types of records are predominately communications between presidents Clinton and Kim and President
Clinton and Prime Minister Hashimoto are Memorandum of Telephone Communications (telcons), Memorandum of Communications
(memcons), and letters.
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Aspin, Les
FOIA 2006-0999-F
This collection consists of records relating to Les Aspin and his work as Chairman of the President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Records relating to Les Aspin and his service on the PFIAB consist of email,
memorandum, and administrative paperwork. The records relate to Aspin’s nomination on the PFIAB and to his service on the
PFIAB. Many email consist of press guidance on various foreign policy positions. A number of these records relate to
Aspin’s participation in a review of the roles and responsibilties of the intelligence community.
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Aid
Baer, Don
FOIA 2006-0458-F
This collection consists of records of Donald Baer. Baer was Assistant to the President and White
House Director of Strategic Planning and Communications. He worked at the White House from 1994-1998 as Chief
Speechwriter/Director of Speechwriting and Research and then worked in the Communications Office. The records contain copies
of speeches, speech drafts, talking points, letters, notes, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, excerpts
from manuscripts and books, news articles, presidential schedules, telephone message forms, and telephone call lists
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Aid
Barbier, Carl J.
FOIA 2012-0323-F
This collection contains memorandums, letters, and press releases concerning the nomination and
confirmation of Carl J. Barbier to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Carl J. Barbier was
nominated by President Clinton on May 19, 1998 and was confirmed by the Senate on September 28, 1998.
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Aid
Beebe, Mike
FOIA 2006-0317-F
This collection consists of
materials related to Mike Beebe, a former Arkansas State Senator. It
includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, email, press releases, and
news articles related to topics of interest to Mr. Beebe and those he
wished to forward to President Clinton.
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Berger, Samuel
FOIA 2006-0296-F
This collection consists
of files from Sandy Berger, President Clinton’s National Security Advisor,
related to Rwanda from 1993 to 1994. The records include cables, email, and
memoranda. The cables relate to Africa, Germany, Daily Press Briefings, and
Press Conferences. The email contain records related to meetings, briefings,
and travel regarding Rwanda, Zaire, Burundi, Nigeria, Gambia, Middle East, and
China. The memoranda contains material regarding meetings, briefings, talking
points, and reports related to Rwanda, Haiti, Israel, Russia, Bosnia, and the
Space Station.
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FOIA 2006-1188-F
This collection contains
correspondence between Samuel Berger, President Clinton’s National Security
Advisor, and John Sawers, Prime Minister Blair’s Foreign Policy Advisor, from
June 10-15, 1999. The majority of the
responsive records have been closed for national security reasons.
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Blair, Tony
FOIA 2006-0217-F
This collection consists of records concerning Tony Blair,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. The records include speeches, cables,
correspondence, email, and memoranda. A variety of topics are covered
including, but not limited to, state visits, the G-7, Northern Ireland, and the
European Union. There is also information regarding schedules, appointments and
foreign travel. The majority of this
FOIA case is currently withheld under PRA and FOIA restrictions.
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Blinken, Anthony (“Tony”)
FOIA
2006-0459-F
This collection contains
Anthony Blinken’s files from the National Security Council (NSC), Speechwriting
Directorate. Blinken served as the chief foreign policy speechwriter in the NSC
Speechwriting Directorate from 1994-1998. His materials contain background
material, drafts and “final, as delivered” speeches. The speechwriting topics
cover a variety of subjects: foreign trips or head of state visits; United
National General Assembly addresses; speeches before domestic and international
groups; memorials, commencements or holidays; State of the Union or weekly
radio addresses; and editorials, book chapters or magazine articles. As an NSC
speechwriter, Blinken produced speeches on major foreign policy actions during the Clinton Administration: Haiti, Iraq and
Bosnia.
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Blue Ribbon Schools
FOIA 2006-0506-F
This collection contains
notes, memoranda, talking points, lists, schedules, and background information
pertaining to research files and speech drafts for remarks by the President at
Awards Ceremony for Blue Ribbon Schools, October 28, 1999. The collection consists of background
information and information regarding scheduling for the Blue Ribbon Schools
ceremony. The memoranda and talking points relate to the Department of
Education and the Blue Ribbon Schools Elementary Programs. The lists consist of
the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the schools selected for
recognition, and the schedules relate to the draft agenda for the ceremony. The
background materials contain information about the Blue Ribbon Schools
programs, how the schools can apply, and how they are selected.
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Blumenthal, Jacqueline Jordan
FOIA 2010-0768-F
This collection consists of records related to White House Fellows directors Brooke Shearer and
Jacqueline Jordan Blumenthal. This collections contains resumes, memoranda, handwritten notes, briefing papers, and
correspondence.
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Boorstin, Robert O.
FOIA 2006-0460-F
This collection consists of records dealing with Robert (Bob) Boorstin, National Security Council
(NSC) speechwriter for President Clinton from 1994-1995. He wrote drafts of speeches Clinton delivered on issues relating to
Haiti, the Baltic States, Germany, Poland, and Indonesia. This collection consists of speech drafts, newspaper and magazine
articles, memoranda, correspondence, schedules, and handwritten notes.
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Aid
Born, Brooksley *
FOIA 2009-1397-F AV
This collection consists of video recordings and photographs
of Brooksley Born and her guest Alex Bennett walking through the receiving line
at the State Dinner for Hungary on June 8, 1999. President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton,
President Goncz of Hungary, and his wife Maria Zsuzsanna Gonter greeted
Brooksley Born at the dinner.
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Bout (or Butt), Viktor
FOIA 2006-0684-F
This collection consists of records related to Viktor Bout (or Butt). The records include cables,
email, and other
documents related to notifications of upcoming NSC meetings regarding Bout and mention of a New
York Times article about the suspected arms
smuggler. In addition, there is material related to the Eminent
Persons Group (EPG) on Curbing Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Light
Weapons. The majority of this FOIA case is currently withheld under PRA
and FOIA restrictions.
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FOIA 2006-0685-F
This collection includes
materials relating to Viktor Bout (or Butt), a suspected international arms
smuggler, the so-called “Merchant of Death.”
The records include cables and email regarding travel by members of the
National Security Council (NSC) to South Africa, and a meeting of the South
African Development Commission (SADC).
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FOIA 2006-0686-F
This collection
includes materials relating to Viktor Bout (or Butt). The records include cables, email, and other
documents related to upcoming meetings related to Bout, copies of United
Nations resolutions which Bout is believed to have violated, and various press
articles about sanctions against Liberia's diamond exports and a plane crash in
Angola in October of 2000. The majority
of this FOIA case is currently withheld under PRA and FOIA restrictions.
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Boys Nation and Girls Nation
FOIA 2006-0502-F
This collection contains
material regarding the Boys and Girls Nation ceremony held at the White House
on July 18, 1996. The records include publications, correspondence, speech
drafts, notes, email and schedules.
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Brokaw, Tom*
FOIA
2006-0500-F AV
This
is an audio recording of an interview of President Clinton by Tom Brokaw of
MSNBC; the interview took place in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on
July 15, 1996. The interview was a live
interview for MSNBC’s show “Internight”. The President and Tom Brokaw discussed
various topics such as information technology, Russia, President Clinton’s
personal character, tobacco, illegal drugs, welfare reform, Social Security,
the Presidential experience, oil imports, income tax, college tuition
deduction, China, immigration and Cuba, Bob Dole, Richard Lamm, and the
Democratic Convention.
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Brooks, Kendra
Systematic
This series contains
records concerning education from the correspondence files of Kendra Brooks,
Domestic Policy Council. The files include inbound and outbound correspondence
pertaining to class-size reduction, the School Construction Initiative, the America
Reads program, and Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. The files contain letters, memoranda, email,
and background articles.
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Systematic
This collection consists of publications related to national and state education goals and standards,
funding for education, class-size reduction, school safety, after-school programs, reading reform, teacher quality and
preparation, and student assessments. The collection is in no specific arrangement.
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Systematic
This collection consists of the Subject Files of Kendra Brooks. The files contain correspondence, reports,
articles, memos, and various printed material. Other documents include background information for education events and
meetings. The files include material pertaining to charter schools, national testing, SAT preparation, school safety, school
modernization/construction, affirmative action, Blue Ribbon Schools, class–size reduction, teacher quality, Limited English
Proficiency (LEP), the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for Hispanic Americans, Tribal Colleges and
Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
and Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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Bryan, John Shelby
FOIA 2006-1005-F
This collection consists of records relating to John Shelby Bryan and his service as member of the
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. This collection consist of memos, letters, fax cover sheets, court
records, resumes, press relases, and news articles relating to Bryan’s appointment and service on PFIAB. It also includes
e-mails that are primarily administrative in nature, relating to Bryan’s appointment to PFIAB.
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Aid
Buckley Jr., William
F.
FOIA 2010-0844-F
This collection
consists of articles, drafts of a letter from President Clinton to Mr. Buckley
in response to an article Mr. Buckley wrote concerning the Kyoto Protocol, also
cables and email relating to articles written by Mr. Buckley or comments made
on the television show Firing Line. Mr. Buckley was a conservative
author and commentator; he was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist; he
founded the political magazine National Review and hosted the television show
Firing Line.
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California Institute
of Technology (CALTECH)*
FOIA 2009-0852-F AV
This collection consists of photographs of President Clinton
addressing the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) on January 21,
2000. Event speakers included, Dr. David Baltimore, President of CALTECH, and
Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus and co-founder of Intel Corporation. The photographs consist of President Clinton
giving remarks and then greeting guests after his speech in the auditorium.
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Photo Contact Sheets
Cameron, James
FOIA 2006-0529-F
This collection consists
of records relating to correspondence between President Clinton and movie
producer James Cameron. The records include correspondence from President
Clinton to James Cameron congratulating him on winning the 1997 Academy Award
for Best Picture, Best Director, and Film Editing for his film Titanic.
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Camp David
FOIA 2006-0526-F
This collection consists of records concerning a Camp David
visit from President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and his wife on June 7,
1998. No official transcript of conversation between Presidents Cardoso
and Clinton exists, but it was reported that they held a positive and
wide-ranging discussion on current issues and topics. These records
include correspondence, planning discussions, press clippings, email, and
cables concerning the President and Mrs. Cardoso's visit.
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Camp Van Dorn
FOIA 2007-0096-F
This collection consists of
email, the majority of which were forwards and mass circulated to a wide
variety of recipents. The majority of the email concern the the publication of
Carroll Case’s book The Slaughter: An
American Atrocity. Case’s book claimed that in 1943, 1,200 members of the
Army’s, 364th Infantry Regiment—a black regiment—were killed by
white soldiers during a riot at Camp Van Dorn, near Centreville,
Mississippi. Following release of the
book, the U.S. Army undertook an investigation into the matter. The records in this collection also contain
public statements made by the U.S. Army and Department of Justice regarding
investigations of the reported incident.
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Capshaw, Kate
FOIA 2006-0488-F
This collection consists
of correspondence between Steven Spielberg, President Clinton, and Hillary
Clinton.
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FOIA 2006-0489-F
This collection consists
of correspondence between President Clinton and Steven Spielberg or his wife,
Kate Capshaw. The collection also
contains records of phone calls and meetings between the President and the
couple. Also included is a daily schedule of First Lady Hillary Clinton showing
a health care event held at the Spielberg home.
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Cardoso, President Fernando Henrique
FOIA 2006-0526-F
This collection consists of records concerning a Camp David
visit from Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and his wife on June 7,
1998. No official transcript of conversation between Presidents Cardoso
and Clinton exists, but it was reported that they held a positive and
wide-ranging discussion on current issues and topics. These records
include correspondence, planning discussions, press clippings, email, and
cables concerning the President and Mrs. Cardoso's visit.
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FOIA 2009-1159-F
This collection consists of records from Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's visits to the U.S., from April 1995 thru May 1999. These materials include National Security Council cover sheets, memos regarding the distribution of memcons, trip schedules, and speeches by President Cardoso and President Clinton.
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Catholics
FOIA 2007-0088-F
This collection consists of correspondence, talking points,
drafts of correspondence, guest lists, articles, email, cables, publications,
speeches, and executive summaries concerning relations between the Clinton
Administration and Catholics. The records primarily focus on U.S. Catholic
bishops on the issues of abortion, the death penalty, health care, and
American involvement in Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia. The collection also covers
various Catholic organizations and the Clinton Administration meeting with the
Pope.
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CBS Radio Interview*
FOIA
2007-1778-F AV
This
is a video recording of President Clinton's remarks during an interview with
CBS Radio on December 11, 1999. The President was interviewed by Mark Knoller
and Peter Maer of CBS Radio. The
interview took place at an office within the Wyndham Palace Resort Hotel in
Orlando, Florida. There is also a video
recording from December 11, 1999 at a Unity Reception in Miami, FL. The
President makes remarks and greets guests at a private residence.
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Central Intelligence Agency
FOIA 2006-0680-F
This collection consists of
materials related to the nomination and later withdrawal of Anthony Lake to be
Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). In addition, records relate to the nomination
of George Tenet to be the DCI after Lake withdrew his nomination. It consists
of biographical and press information, correspondence, memoranda, and email
related to the preparation and later confirmation of this position.
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Chang, Caroline
Systematic 2010-1110-S
This series contains records relating to teacher
recruitment, class sizes, progress made in education during the Clinton
Administration, Hispanics in U.S. schools, internet filtering, and education
appropriations. The records include memoranda, reports, publications, articles,
email, and legislative drafts.
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Charren, Peggy*
FOIA 2009-0530-F AV
This request consists of photographs of President Clinton
and Hilary Rodham Clinton presenting a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Peggy
Charren on September 29, 1995. Charren founded Action for Children’s Television
(ACT) in 1968 in an effort to improve the quality of children’s television
programming.
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Chautauqua, New York
FOIA 2006-0231-F
This collection consists of
materials related to President Clinton’s trip to Chautauqua, New York, in early
October 1996. The records include plane manifests, schedules, correspondence,
and memoranda relating to the activities of the President and First Lady during
the trip, a list of advisors and staff, and the accommodations, reservations
and billing arrangements with hotels.
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FOIA 2006-0190-F AV*
This request consists of
photographs of President Clinton’s trip to Chautauqua, NY in October of 1996,
and his trip to the Presidential Debate in Hartford, CT on October 6, 1996. The
photographs document President Clinton taping a Radio Address at the Chautauqua
Institution, walking with Hillary Rodham Clinton, walking with Senator George
Mitchell and Kirk Hanlin, playing golf with Erskine Bowles, et al., and
speaking with advisors at the Athenaeum Hotel.
Photographs also document President Clinton speaking with reporters and
conferring with Mike McCurry, Leon Panetta, Joe Lockhart, Doug Sosnick, Erskine
Bowles, Bob Squier, George Stephanopoulos, and Bruce Lindsey. This collection includes photographs of
President Clinton and Senator Robert “Bob” Dole participating in the first Presidential
debate at Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, Connecticut, and the post-debate
party at Union Station in Hartford, Connecticut.
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to Finding Aid with Photo Contact Sheets Part 1 - Part
2 - Part 3 - Part 4
FOIA 2006-0233-F
This collection consists of
material from the Presidential Diary relating to the retreat to Chautauqua, New
York, in preparation for a debate with Senator Robert Dole. The records include schedules, call logs,
remarks, press briefings, and press releases.
Included is a press schedule for Chautauqua and a transcript of the
debate.
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Christopher, Warren
FOIA 2009-1157-F
This collection consists of records from Secretary of State Warren Christopher's trip to South American in February and March 1996. These materials include cables of the Secretary's speeches during his trip and news reports on the Secretary's meetings with various leaders and delegations.
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Civil Liberties Act of 1988
FOIA 2007-1742-F
This collection consists of records related to Public Law 100-383, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.
The records include drafts and the final version of the apology letter from President Bill Clinton to Japanese Americans held
in internment during World War II. The records include memoranda, letters, and notes.
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Aid
Climate Change
Systematic
This collection consists
of records from the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). The CEA provided the
President with economic analysis and advice on the development and
implementation of domestic and international economic policy issues. This
series includes photocopies of research materials concerning climate change
provided in response to a Congressional Document Request. Materials within the
series include photocopied publications, news clippings, press releases, memos,
and correspondence.
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Clinton
Administration History Project
Systematic
The records of
the Clinton Administration History Project consist of the histories of 32 agencies or departments within the
Executive Branch. These papers describe in detail the accomplishments of
President Clinton and his advisors for the period 1993-2001. In general, each
organization associated with the enterprise submitted a narrative history along
with supporting documents. These narrative accounts are primarily overviews of
the various missions, special projects, and accomplishments of the agencies.
The supplementary records include substantive memos, press releases, briefing
papers, and publications illustrated with photos and charts.
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Link to Digital
Collection
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
FOIA 2006-0198-F (segment 1)
This collection consists
of the
First Lady’s daily schedule including meetings, trips, speaking engagements and
social activities for the eight years of the Clinton Administration.
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FOIA
2006-0198-F (segment 2)
This
collection consists of the First Lady’s daily schedule including meetings,
trips, speaking engagements and social activities for the eight years of the
Clinton Administration. These are dates for which Patti Solis Doyle did not
have schedules, 2006-0198-F (segment 1).
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FOIA 2006-0223-F
This collection consists largely of the First Lady’s Office
files that include memos, background files, and meeting notes concerning the
formation and actions of the Health Care Taskforce and working groups. These
files include records pertaining to the Health Care Taskforce and working group
development; the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons lawsuit
brought against Hillary Clinton; and the final Report on Health Care Reform.
Files also contain correspondence concerning President Clinton’s decision to
appoint the First Lady to chair the Health Care Taskforce.
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Aid
FOIA 2006-0224-F
This collection consists of
records relating to Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate Campaign. The records
included in this collection are draft schedules, press clippings, memos, event
attendee lists and email. The collection also consists of records created by
White House staff members that reference the campaign.
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FOIA 2006-0503-F
This collection contains
transcripts, correspondence, general information, and invitations related to a
speech given by the First Lady at Forum 2000 in Prague, Czech Republic on
October 13, 1998. The event was the second in a series of conferences that
Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, hosted to discuss the challenges
of the new millennium. Mrs. Clinton’s speech focused on globalization and the
challenges it presented to economies, governments, and society as a whole. She
reflected upon the previous millennium and conveyed optimism for the following
one.
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FOIA 2006-0504-F
This collection contains
transcripts, remarks, background information, talking points, and speech drafts
relating to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s remarks at the Fifth Millennium
Evening, held at the White House on January 25, 1999. President and Mrs. Clinton created the
Millennium Council in 1997 to oversee commemorative and celebratory activities
in anticipation of the beginning of the 21st century. The Council entitled the
January 1999 Millennium Evening “The Meaning of the Millennium.” Featuring
theologian and religious historian Martin E. Marty and medieval historian
Natalie Zemon Davis, the program compared contemporary religious and secular
reactions to the year 2000 to similar trends during the previous millennial
transition in the year 1000.
Link to
Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0505-F
This collection contains
transcripts, draft remarks, research material, and e-mails pertaining to
remarks by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Sorbonne in Paris, France
on June 17, 1999. In her remarks, entitled “Globalization into the New
Millennium”, the First Lady discussed the challenges that globalization
presented society. Mrs. Clinton emphasized the need to develop efficient
governments and good citizens in order to create a prosperous and peaceful 21st
century. She referenced events in Kosovo often, citing the need to remember
past evils and prevent them in the future.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0810-F
This collection consists of records related
to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Reform Files, 1993-1996.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the Chair of the President's Task
Force on National Health Care Reform. The files contain reports,
memoranda, correspondence, schedules, and news clippings. These materials
discuss topics such as the proposed health care plan, the need for health care
reform, benefits packages, Medicare, Medicaid, events in support of the
Administration's plan, and other health care reform proposals.
Furthermore, this material includes draft reports from the White House Health
Care Interdepartmental Working Group, formed to advise the Health Care Task
Force on the reform plan.
Link to Finding Aid for Segment 1
Link to
Finding Aid for Segment 2
FOIA 2006-0885-F Segment 2
This collection consists of records describing the efforts of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to get health care reform through Congress. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, memos, papers, and reports. A significant feature of the records are letters from constituents describing their feelings about health care reform and disastrous financial situations they found themselves in as the result of inadequate or inappropriate health insurance coverage.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0886-F
These records contain
telephone message slips addressed to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The messages are from the general public,
doctors, staffers, and congressional leaders and range in date from early 1993
through early 1996.
FOIA 2009-0530-F AV*
This request consists of photographs of President Clinton
and Hilary Rodham Clinton presenting a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Peggy
Charren on September 29, 1995. Charren founded Action for Children’s Television
(ACT) in 1968 in an effort to improve the quality of children’s television
programming.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Photo Contact
Sheets
FOIA 2006-1301-F
This collection consists of records related to microcredit and microdevelopment, as well as
correspondence between the Clinton White House and microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus. This collection consists of
correspondence, memoranda, background materials on various microcredit institutions and initiatives, notes, clippings,
articles, reports, publications, and lists. These records include correspondence between First Lady Hillary Clinton and
Muhammad Yunus as well as correspondence between the Clinton White House and Yunus’ Grameen Bank.
Link to Finding
Aid
FOIA 2007-1757-F
This collection consist of records from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's files on NASA or Outer Space. These materials include materials related to community outreach, press releases, and educational events regarding the space program.
Link to Finding Aid
Columbia
FOIA 2006-0948-F
This collection consists of email, cables, and
reports of
the aftermath from November 9, 1998, when a Colombian Air Force plane that
landed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was discovered to contain over 700 separate
packets of cocaine. Many of the cables summarize Colombian newspaper articles
and television reports about the discovery of drugs on the plane and the
reaction by the Colombian government. The Colombian press attacked the
corruption in the Columbian armed forces and officially dubbed the Colombia Air
Force, the “Blue Cartel.”
Link to Finding Aid
Commission on Consumer
Protection and Quality in the
Health Care Industry
Systematic
This collection consists
of the federal records of the President’s Commission on Consumer Protection and
Quality in the Health Care Industry. The commission, created by Executive Order
13017, advised the President on changes occurring in the health care system and
recommended measures to protect the quality of health care for workers and
consumers. The records include transcripts of the meetings, briefing books,
background papers, draft reports, and correspondence.
Link to
Finding Aid
Commission on the Roles and
Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community
FOIA 2006-1023-F
This collection consists of records relating to the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the
U.S. Intelligence Community; more often referred to as simply the Aspin-Brown Commission. The Commission
was authorized in 1994 following an October 1993 incident in which 18 U.S. Army soldiers were killed by soldiers of a Somali
warlord. The intent of the Commission was to assess the status of the changing intelligence community following the Cold War
and to offer suggestions on how to adapt. It released its report, Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S.
Intelligence, on March 1, 1996. This collection consists primarily of records relating to the administration’s response
to the completed report and copies of the report. It also includes administrative email relating to the business of the
commission.
Link
to Finding Aid
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(CNMI)
FOIA 2006-0194-F
These records describe the Clinton Administration’s proposal to apply federal immigration and minimum
wage laws to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); and also the CNMI’s circumvention of US garment duties
and quotas. Records also include materials concerning resolutions of the CNMI legislature, US disaster relief following
typhoons, and invitations to the CNMI regarding events such as the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Events for World War II.
This collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, and reports.
Link to Finding
Aid
Communication Conspiracy
FOIA 2007-0080-F
This collection consists of a binder titled “Communication Conspiracy” from the staff and office files of Jane Sherburne from the Counsel’s Office. The binder mostly consists of news articles and summaries. These records describe the means by which news organizations received and published stories, reports, and editorials concerning President Clinton, his staff, and his administration.
Link to Finding Aid
Communications Assistance for Law
Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
FOIA 2008-1217-F
This collection consists of material regarding the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement
Agencies Act (CALEA). CALEA, or House Resolution 4922, was sponsored by Representative Don Edwards of California and
co-sponsored by Representative Henry Hyde. This collection consists of email, memoranda, correspondence, and discussions of
Administration position regarding the bill.
Link to Finding Aid
Conference on Culture and Diplomacy
FOIA 2006-0201-F
This collection consists
of records concerning the White House Conference on Culture and Diplomacy,
which took place on November 28, 2000. The White House Conference on Culture
grew out of the reorganization of the United States Information Agency (USIA)
in October 1999. The files contain correspondence, publications, memoranda,
speeches, schedules, email, and cables.
Link to
Finding Aid
Contact
FOIA 2006-1877-F
This collection consists of records related to the film
Contact. The film, released on July 1, 1997, is a science fiction film about
the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Program. The screenplay
was co-written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and based on the novel of the same
title written by Sagan. This collection consists of memos regarding the use of
the President’s image in the film and email concerning the film’s co author
and Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-1879-F
This collection consists of
materials regarding American astronomer Carl Sagan. Credited with popularizing
science and astronomy, Sagan promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial
Intelligence and published a novel, "Contact." These files contain
correspondence, email, and other records related to Sagan's work, his
relationship with the White House, and his death on December 20, 1996.
Link to Finding Aid
Council of Environmental Quality
FOIA 2008-1041-F
This collection consists of box and folder title list inventories for all Council of Environmental Quality records. Some of the topics of the folder and box titles include Earth Day, the Forest Summit, wetlands, the ecosystem, endangered species, clean cars, fisheries, and the National Park Service. There are also a list of correspondence files in chronological order and lists of administrative files related to staffing, budget and space.
Link to Finding Aid
Council on Sustainable Development
Systematic
This collection consists
of the federal records of The President’s Council on Sustainable Development
(PCSD). The PCSD, a federal advisory commission, was composed of members from
the public and private sectors who represented industrial, environmental,
governmental, and not-for-profit organizations with experience relating to
matters of sustainable development. This collection contains briefing
materials, transcripts, minutes, debriefings, agendas, logistics, and public
comments related to Council meetings. This collection also includes speeches,
press releases and kits, and information about public outreach (including the
Kodak Project).
Link to
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Cowan, Geoffrey
FOIA 2006-0211-F
This collection consists
of records relating to Geoffrey Cowan, Director of Voice of America (VOA).
Cowan was appointed in 1994. The records
in this collection include correspondence, press releases, wire reports,
schedules, invitations and United States Information Agency (USIA) weekly
reports. Some of the topics covered include Radio/TV Marti, Haitian Radio
Support Projects, Balkans Public Diplomacy Group, and the Africa Trip Press
Tongs.
Link to
Finding Aid
Crime
Systematic
Bruce Reed
Crime Series: The collection includes material pertaining to the Omnibus Crime
Act of 1994, costs and financing of the 1994 Act, Congressional conference
drafts of the 1994 Act, and results of the 1994 Act; the 100,000 COPS program;
various gun issues and topics; negotiations with the gun industry and
settlement in 2000 with Smith & Wesson; the Brady Bill; the Racial Justice
Act; the 1999 Gun Show Bill; victims’ rights; school violence; and habeas
reform. The files contain incoming correspondence, reports and articles, memos,
handwritten notes, schedules, various printed material, memos to the President
prepared by Bruce Reed, other White House staff, and various governmental
agencies.
Link to
Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library
Collection
Critical Infrastructure
Protection (PCCIP)
FOIA 2006-0448-F
This collection consists of reports, brochures, press
packets, news articles, and video tapes related to the President's Commission on
Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP). The President’s Commission was
established in July 1996, by Presidential Executive Order 13010 and was
responsible for formulating a comprehensive national strategy for protecting
the infrastructures from physical and cyber threats. It was the first national
effort to address vulnerabilities created in the new information age.
Link to Finding Aid
Curiel, Carolyn
FOIA 2006-0461-F
This collection consists of records of Carolyn Curiel. Curiel joined the White House Executive Office
as a speechwriter to President Bill Clinton in 1993. The records consist of copies of speeches and speech drafts, talking
points, memoranda, background material, correspondence, reports, handwritten notes, articles, clippings, presidential
schedules, and resumes. Most of the material contained in this collection was used to assist in writing speeches. Many of the
speech drafts are heavily annotated with additions or deletions.
Link to Finding
Aid
Cutler, Lynn
FOIA 2006-0197-F (segment
2)
This collection consists
of records concerning Native American
Policy during the Clinton Administration. Segment 2 contains email from
the Automated Records Management System (ARMS) Email. ARMS Email for this
FOIA collection contain the phrases “Bureau of Indian Affairs” or “Federal
Indian Policy” in the “Subject” line. The records include email created and
received by Lynn G. Cutler with specific reference to Indians/Native Americans.
Cutler served as the tribal liaison and Deputy Assistant to President Clinton
for Intergovernmental Affairs.
Link to
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FOIA 2006-0197-F (segment
3)
This collection consists
of records concerning Native American
Policy during the Clinton Administration. Segment 3 contains records primarily
from the IN (Indian Affairs) Subject File. The collection also includes
White House Staff and Office Files, including records from Lynn Cutler, Office
of Intergovernmental Affairs, which contain reports dealing with the annual
conferences of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). Other topics
in this collection include Native American housing, legislative updates, and
hunting and fishing rights.
Link to
Finding Aid
Davids, Paul
FOIA 2006-0484-F
This collection consists
of correspondence between President Clinton and the Davids family.
Link to
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Department of Energy
FOIA 2006-1022-F
This collection consists of records concerning the security status of the Department of Energy and the
national laboratories. With the signing and issuance of Presidential Decision Directive-61 (PDD-61), President Clinton
ordered that certain steps be taken to strengthen the counterintelligence program within the Department of Energy. The
records consist of various types of correspondence, press releases and reports dealing with security issues addressed in
PDD-61 and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board’s report, “Science at Its Best – Security at Its Worse.”
Link to Finding
Aid
Diamond, Henry
FOIA 2006-0482-F
This collection consists
of correspondence between President Clinton and Henry Diamond. Diamond was a
member of the American Conservation Association. Also included are internal
White House email concerning President Clinton’s response to a letter sent to
him by four members of the Association.
Link to
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Direct Selling
Association*
FOIA 2009-0670-F AV
This is a video recording
of President Clinton making remarks for the Direct Selling Association.
President Clinton delivered a video message for this organization on September
23, 1996 from the White House.
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Disabilities
FOIA 2007-0143-F Segment 1
This collection consists of email, press releases, daily briefings, weekly reports, and legislative reports, concerning American’s with Disabilities. Topics include the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the disability community, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Link to Finding Aid
Domestic Policy Council
Brooks, Kendra
Correspondence Series
Systematic
This series contains records concerning education from the correspondence files of Kendra Brooks, Domestic Policy Council.
The files include inbound and outbound correspondence pertaining to class-size reduction, the School Construction Initiative,
the America Reads program, and Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. The files contain letters, memoranda, email,
and background articles.
Link to
Finding Aid
Printed Materials Series
Systematic
This collection consists of publications related to national and state education goals and standards, funding for education,
class-size reduction, school safety, after-school programs, reading reform, teacher quality and preparation, and student
assessments. The collection is in no specific arrangement.
Link to
Finding Aid
Subject Files Series
Systematic
This collection consists of the Subject Files of Kendra Brooks. The files contain correspondence, reports, articles, memos,
and various printed material. Other documents include background information for education events and meetings. The files
include material pertaining to charter schools, national testing, SAT preparation, school safety, school
modernization/construction, affirmative action, Blue Ribbon Schools, class–size reduction, teacher quality, Limited English
Proficiency (LEP), the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for Hispanic Americans, Tribal Colleges and
Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),
and Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Link to
Finding Aid
Jennings, Christopher
Faxes Series
Systematic 2011-0747-S
This collection consists of records related to health care appropriations and legislation from October 1999 to December 2000. This collection consists of reports, memoranda, draft legislation, resumes, the First Lady’s schedules, articles, and correspondence from congress, non-profit organizations, health care interest groups, and private citizens.
Link to Finding Aid
Health Security Act Series
Systematic
This collection contains
records from the files of Chris Jennings’ related to the Health Security
Act. The records include memoranda, correspondence, reports, press releases, briefing papers, statistical data, graphs, legislative drafts, publications, and news. This material provides a detailed
analysis of the Act, as well as a chronological subseries that focuses on legislative strategies to enact the Health Security Act. This collection also contains material examining the alternatives to the Act.
Link to
Finding Aid
Link to
Digital Library Collection
Meetings, Trips, Events Series
Systematic 2011-0747-S
This collection consists of records related to Chris Jennings’ travel, speaking engagements, and meetings. This collection contains correspondence, faxes, invitations, email, travel voucher and reimbursement forms, invoices, and receipts from 1996-2000.
Link to Finding Aid
Subject File Series
Systematic
This collection consists
of Chris Jennings’ Subject Files series. The collection contains memoranda,
correspondence, graphs, statistical data, reports, press releases, briefing
papers, handwritten notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, and publications.
This series covers a wide variety of health-related topics, including a proposed Prescription Drug Benefit,
proposals for a Patients Bill of Rights, prevention and treatment of AIDS,
medical research, reform of the Food and Drug Administration, and the financing
of federal health programs within the framework of the Balanced Budget Act
(BBA). The Subject Files contains a significant amount of material related to
concerns stemming from demographic changes (specifically the aging of the “Baby
Boom” generation) which threaten the future solvency of both the Medicare and Medicaid
trust funds. Another large segment of this series deals with the
Administration’s efforts to prevent the Republican-controlled Congress from
converting the Medicaid program into a system of block grants to the states.
The Clinton Administration took the position that such a move would effectively
cap federal contributions to the program and result in the elimination and
reduction of long-term health care coverage to millions of recipients.
Link
to
Finding Aid
Link to
Digital Library Collection
Kagan, Elena
Systematic
This collection contains records from the file reports.
Link to
Digital Library Collection
Magaziner, Ira
Health Care Reform Series
FOIA 2006-0770-F
This collection consists of reports, memoranda, correspondence, news clippings, and schedules from the files of Ira
Magaziner, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development. Magaziner assisted in implementing President Clinton’s
Health Care Reform initiatives by coordinating policy development for the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. The
records include draft reports produced by the working groups Magaziner formed to advise the Task Force.
Link to Finding
Aid
Health Care Task Force Series
FOIA 2006-0885-F Segment 1
This collection consists of Ira Magaziner’s Health Care Task Force files including: correspondence, reports, news clippings,
press releases, and publications. Ira Magaziner a Senior Advisor to President Clinton for Policy Development was heavily
involved in health care reform. Magaziner assisted the Task Force by coordinating health care policy development through
numerous working groups. Magaziner and the First Lady were the President’s primary advisors on health care. The Health Care
Task Force eventually produced the administration’s health care plan, introduced to Congress as the Health Security Act. This
bill failed to pass in 1994.
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to Finding Aid
Electronic Commerce Series
Systematic
Ira Magaziner’s Electronic Commerce series covers policy considerations relating to Internet and electronic commerce issues.
Ira Magaziner served as Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development from 1993 to 1998. The files contain
correspondence, reports, memos, and articles dealing with all aspects of internet issues, including copyright and
intellectual property protection, encryption, domain names, and tariff and tax considerations on products sold via the
internet. The records contain correspondence and reports from various international organizations such as the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Ministry
of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
Link to
Finding Aid
McCown, Gaynor
Printed Materials Series
Systematic 2011-0255-S
This collection consists of Gaynor McCown’s Domestic Policy Council Printed Materials series of records related to education,
children and family welfare, safe and drug free schools, and the budget. This collection consists of memoranda, pamphlets,
reports, and books.
Link to Finding Aid
Subject Series
Systematic 2011-0225-S
This collection consists of Gaynor McCown’s Domestic Policy Council Subject series of records related to education
accomplishments, student loans, state partnerships, safe and drug free schools, budget, youth initiatives, community
outreach, reinventing government, and student organizations. This collection consists of talking points, reports,
publications, draft legislation, memoranda, articles, correspondence, email, schedules, meeting agendas, speech transcripts,
and handwritten notes.
Link to Finding Aid
Rasco, Carol
Correspondence Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Correspondence series containing records related to topics such as health care,
welfare reform, housing, employment, persons with disabilities, immigrant benefits, education, women and children, and senior
citizens. The records consist of memos, letters, greeting cards, petitions, recommendations, forms, resumes, applications,
and weekly reports.
Link to Finding Aid
Issue Papers Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Issue Papers series in the Domestic Policy Council. The collection consists of
records relating to affirmative action, health care and reform, Medicare/Medicaid, immigration, disability, children,
families and seniors, education, welfare reform, Middle Class Bill of Rights, and state and local economic issues. This
collection consists of memos, letters, reports, schedules, itineraries, talking points, copies of legislation, and
organizational material such as flyers and pamphlets.
Link to
Finding Aid
Meetings, Trips, Events Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Meetings, Trips, Events series, in the Domestic Policy Council. The records include
memos, letters, reports, schedules, itineraries, meeting notes, flyers and pamphlets. The series highlights the topics of
discussion for scheduled meetings and events, the persons involved, and information on travel required to attend the meetings
or events. Topics include health care reform, disability, employment, education, children and families, and communities.
Link to
Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Miscellaneous Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Miscellaneous series in the Domestic Policy Council. The collection consists of
records relating to health care, welfare reform, housing, employment, persons with disabilities, education, women and
children, senior citizens, the 1994 G-7 jobs conference, rural policy, national drug control policy, and state health and
welfare waivers. This collection consists of memos, letters, weekly reports, speeches and background material, schedules,
itineraries, press releases, talking points, correspondence and phone call logs, and organizational material such as flyers
and pamphlets.
Link
to Finding Aid
Regrets/Invitations Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Regrets/Invitations series containing records detailing the numerous requests for
Rasco’s participation in and attendance at various events, parties, speaking engagements, and her regrets primarily due to
scheduling conflicts. The records contain memos, letters, schedules, itineraries, calendars, and notes
Link to Finding Aid
Subject Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Carol Rasco’s Subject series, in the Domestic Policy Council. Records in this series reflect the
wide range of domestic policy issues handled by Rasco and her staff. Issues include: health care, education, violence and
crime prevention, employment, state and local communities, civil rights, Americorps, housing and homelessness, Empowerment
Zones, health care, and the arts. The records include memos, letters, reports, meeting notes and agendas, pamphlets,
handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, schedules, and magazine and journal articles. Rasco's files include memos to/from DPC
staff, White House staff, President Clinton and Vice-President Gore, and various Cabinet members. The files also contain
correspondence to/from other agencies, public/private organizations, as well as individuals.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Reed, Bruce
Crime Series
Systematic
The collection includes material pertaining to the Omnibus Crime Act of 1994, costs and financing of the 1994 Act,
Congressional conference drafts of the 1994 Act, and results of the 1994 Act; the 100,000 COPS program; various gun issues
and topics; negotiations with the gun industry and settlement in 2000 with Smith & Wesson; the Brady Bill; the Racial
Justice Act; the 1999 Gun Show Bill; victims’ rights; school violence; and habeas reform. The files contain incoming
correspondence, reports and articles, memos, handwritten notes, schedules, various printed material, memos to the President
prepared by Bruce Reed, other White House staff, and various governmental agencies.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Education Series
Systematic
The files include material pertaining to national standards and testing; the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
and the 1999 efforts to reauthorize the Act; 100,000 teachers and class size; charter schools and vouchers; education events
and forums; social promotion; Goals 2000; HOPE Scholarships; Pell Grants; the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999
(Ed-flex); education funding and budgets; and various school and teacher issues. The files contain correspondence, reports
and articles, memos, polls, handwritten notes, email, schedules, printed material, and memos to the President.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Subject File Series
Systematic
This collection consists of records from the files of Bruce Reed, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the
Domestic Policy Council. The Subject File Series covers the years 1993-2001, and includes records regarding budgets, child
care and child support, Earned Income Tax Credit, empowerment zones, health care, organ donations, immigration, lobbying
reform, National Performance Review, political reform, race relations, taxes, urban policy, AIDS, needle exchange program,
adoption, National Service, and administration accomplishments. The files contain incoming correspondence, reports and
articles, memos, handwritten notes, schedules, publications, talking points, testimony, briefing books, schedules, news
clippings, and speeches by the President and his staff.
Link to
Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Welfare Reform Series
Systematic
President Clinton established an interagency group, the White House Working Group on Welfare Reform, Family Support, and
Independence (1993-1994), in order to carry out his campaign promise “to end welfare as we know it.” The Working Group was
co-chaired by Bruce Reed, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy (1993-1997). The Welfare Reform files include
material pertaining to legislative strategy, analysis of state plans, child support, speeches, rollout of the Working Group's
proposal, and various drafts of welfare reform bills authored by the Working Group, Congress, and public/private
organizations. The files contain incoming correspondence, reports and articles, memos, notes, legislative bills, and printed
material. Also included are memos to the President prepared by Bruce Reed, other WH staff, and various government agencies
(primarily HHS) and memos between members of the Working Group. There is also material about the effects of the final bill,
the PRWORA, in memos, letters, and reports originating from the White House, HHS, and nongovernmental entities. The series
also contains various publications about welfare reform, authored by federal and private organizations.
Link
to Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library Collection
Rice, Cynthia
Subject File Series
Systematic
This collection consists of the Subject File series for Cynthia Rice in the Domestic Policy Council. Representative files
include records pertaining to childcare enhancement, child support enforcement with an emphasis on computerized state
collection tools and procedures, the pursuit of employment rights for the disabled, fatherhood development, welfare reform,
including budget development and legislative negotiations surrounding food stamps, Medicaid, and Welfare to Work. This series
also contains records regarding $3 billion in grants awarded to states and local communities to create additional jobs for
recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which was created under the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. The collection reflects a level of diversity indicative of the emerging
communications revolution of the 1990s, containing faxes, electronic mail, “gray literature” from government and non-profit
entities, correspondence from policy advocates, articles from various media outlets, memoranda, handwritten notes, and
reports.
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Rotherman, Andrew
Education Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Education series in the Domestic Policy Council. It contains records related
to class size reduction, test preparation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, charter schools, the digital divide,
distance learning, youth violence in schools, teacher salaries, social promotion, Hispanic education, standardized testing,
and after-school programs. The records consist of reports, draft legislation, memoranda, correspondence to and from
organizations and community leaders that focus on education issues, articles, publications, email, and fact sheets relating
to the Administration’s progress on education.
Link to
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Events Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Events series in the Domestic Policy Council. It contains records related to
education events and the corresponding background materials. The collection consists of reports, memoranda, email,
congressional correspondence, press releases, and speech drafts.
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Subject Series
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Subject series in the Domestic Policy Council. It contains records related to
research materials for education issues relating to funding for IDEA [Individuals with Disabilities Education Act], failing
schools, youth violence, Equity 2000, educator awards, litigation, and legislation. The records consists of reports,
memoranda, email, articles on various education topics, publications, handwritten notes, and correspondence from school
district leaders nationwide.
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Schnur, John
Systematic 2011-0556-S
This collection consists John Schnur’s Domestic Policy Council files. Schnur served as the Associate Director for Education
Policy from 1998-1999. The collection contains records related to education conferences, awards, and events. This collection
consists of conference agendas, articles, press releases, correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, vice presidential
speech transcripts, and email.
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Tanden, Neeragr
Systematic 2011-0688-S
This collection consists of Neera Tanden’s subject files from the Domestic Policy Council. Tanden served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy in the Clinton White House, and Senior Policy Advisor to the First Lady’s staff from December 1997 to July 1999. The collection consists of activities of the Domestic Policy Council as it related to the work of the First Lady including abortion, child care, education, health reform, and youth issues such as after school activities, teen pregnancy, and violence. The records include agendas, articles, briefing books, emails, letters, legislation, memos, schedules, speech material, talking points, and weekly reports.
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2012-0038-S
This collection consists of Neera Tanden’s subject files from the Office of Policy Development. The subject matter of the collection is devoted to the issues concerning the First Lady including tobacco control and cessation, education, women in sports, children’s health insurance, women’s health issues, parental unemployment insurance, and paid family leave. The records consist of printed material, memos, news clips, drafts, notes, and speech transcripts
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Warnath, Stephen
Civil Rights Series
Systematic
This collection consists of records from the files of Stephen Warnath, Senior Policy Analyst in the Domestic Policy Council.
The Civil Rights Series includes material pertaining to the Civil Rights Working Group and topics such as affirmative action,
English only, age discrimination, religious freedom, and voting rights. The records also include confirmation briefing
materials for Department of Justice (DOJ) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominees. The records include
briefing papers, correspondence, schedules, testimony, reports, clippings, articles, legislative referral memoranda, and
memos. The majority of the memos are internal between the Domestic Policy Council staff and the staff of the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and between the Domestic Policy Council staff and Congress.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
FOIA
2006-0227-F
This
collection consists of material related to gays in the military from January
20, 1993 through July 31, 1993. The
records include correspondence, reports, memoranda, and email, and deal with
the development of the policy that became known as "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell". These records include
documents describing the policy proposals made by Senator Sam Nunn and
Representative Barney Frank, and the various legal cases of military personnel
being discharged for admitting their homosexuality. Also included are letters from the public and
from members of Congress expressing their views on the issue.
Link to
Finding Aid
Drugs
FOIA 2006-0948-F
This collection consists of email, cables, and reports of
the aftermath from November 9, 1998, when a Colombian Air Force plane that
landed in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, was discovered to contain over 700 separate
packets of cocaine. Many of the cables summarize Colombian newspaper articles
and television reports about the discovery of drugs on the plane and the
reaction by the Colombian government. The Colombian press attacked the
corruption in the Columbian armed forces and officially dubbed the Colombia Air
Force, the “Blue Cartel.”
Link to Finding Aid
Druyan,
Ann
FOIA 2006-1877-F
This collection consists of records related to the film
Contact. The film, released on July 1, 1997, is a science fiction film about
the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Program. The screenplay
was co-written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and based on the novel of the same
title written by Sagan. This collection consists of memos regarding the use of
the President’s image in the film and email concerning the film’s co author
and Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan.
Link to Finding Aid
Duffey, Joseph
FOIA 2006-0209-F
This collection consists
of records concerning Joseph Duffey, Director of the United States Information
Agency (USIA), from 1993-1999. The
records include correspondence, memoranda, press material and education program
information. Topics in this collection include the Commission on Public Diplomacy, a White House reception for
an internship program for Russian entrepreneurs, “Investing in People: U.S. -
South Africa Conference on Democracy and the Market Economy,” and information
concerning other events. The correspondence includes invitations to events and
letters of appreciation and endorsement.
Link to
Finding Aid
Edmonds, Terry
FOIA 2006-0462-F
This collection consists of records from the files of Terry Edmonds from the Office of Speechwriting.
Edmonds was the first African American Chief Speechwriter in a presidential administration. Topics in this collection include
race relations, education, veterans, youth, gun control, and senior citizens. The speech drafts in this collection are for
State of the Union speeches, radio addresses, commencement speeches and special events. In addition to speeches and speech
drafts, the records include letters, memorandum, schedules, reports, articles, and clippings.
Link
to Finding Aid
Education
Systematic
This collection consists of the Bruce Reed Education
series in the Domestic Policy Council. The files include material pertaining to national standards and
testing; the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the 1999 efforts
to reauthorize the Act; 100,000 teachers and class size; charter schools and
vouchers; education events and forums; social promotion; Goals 2000; HOPE
Scholarships; Pell Grants; the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999
(Ed-flex); education funding and budgets; and various school and teacher
issues. The files contain correspondence, reports and articles, memos, polls,
handwritten notes, hard copies of email, schedules, printed material, and
memos to the President.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Digital Library
Collection
Systematic
This collection consists of the Kendra Brooks' Correspondence series in the Domestic Policy
Council. The files include inbound and outbound
correspondence pertaining to class-size reduction, the School Construction
Initiative, the America Reads program, and Educational Excellence for Hispanic
Americans.The files contain letters,
memoranda, email, and background articles.
Link to Finding Aid
Systematic
This collection consists of the Kendra Brooks' Publications series related to national and
state education goals and standards, funding for education, class-size reduction, school safety, after-school programs,
reading reform, teacher quality and preparation, and student assessments. The collection is in no specific arrangement.
Link to
Finding Aid
Systematic
This collection consists of the Subject Files of Kendra Brooks. The files contain
correspondence, reports, articles, memos, and various printed material. Other documents include background information for
education events and meetings. The files include material pertaining to charter schools, national testing, SAT preparation,
school safety, school modernization/construction, affirmative action, Blue Ribbon Schools, class–size reduction, teacher
quality, Limited English Proficiency (LEP), the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for Hispanic Americans, Tribal
Colleges and Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s), the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Act (IDEA), and Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
Link to
Finding Aid
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Education series in the Domestic Policy
Council. It contains records related to class size reduction, test preparation, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
charter schools, the digital divide, distance learning, youth violence in schools, teacher salaries, social promotion,
Hispanic education, standardized testing, and after-school programs. The records consist of reports, draft legislation,
memoranda, correspondence to and from organizations and community leaders that focus on education issues, articles,
publications, email, and fact sheets relating to the Administration’s progress on education.
Link to Finding
Aid
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Events series in the Domestic Policy
Council. It contains records related to education events and the corresponding background materials. The collection consists
of reports, memoranda, email, congressional correspondence, press releases, and speech drafts.
Link to
Finding Aid
Systematic
This collection consists of Andrew Rotherham’s Subject series in the Domestic Policy
Council. It contains records related to research materials for education issues relating to funding for IDEA [Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act], failing schools, youth violence, Equity 2000, educator awards, litigation, and legislation.
The records consists of reports, memoranda, email, articles on various education topics, publications, handwritten notes, and
correspondence from school district leaders nationwide.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0175-F
This collection consists
of documents concerning the Sharable
Content/Courseware Reference Model (SCORM), Executive Order 13111, and The
President’s Task Force on Training Technology. SCORM is a collection of
standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. The files contain
correspondence, background materials, resumes, memoranda, email, and copies of
Executive Order 13111 concerning the creation of The President’s Task Force on
Federal Training Technology.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0463-F
This collection consists
of speech drafts, articles, notes, memoranda and correspondence from the files
of Paul Glastris, Speechwriter. Many of the records in this collection were
used by Glastris in the composition of President Clinton’s speeches. Glastris
drafted speeches related to but not limited to education, electronic commerce,
and the State of the Union.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0506-F
This collection contains
notes, memoranda, talking points, lists, schedules, and background information
pertaining to research files and speech drafts for remarks by the President at
Awards Ceremony for Blue Ribbon Schools, October 28, 1999. The collection consists of background
information and information regarding scheduling for the Blue Ribbon Schools
ceremony. The memoranda and talking points relate to the Department of
Education and the Blue Ribbon Schools Elementary Programs. The lists consist of
the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the schools selected for
recognition, and the schedules relate to the draft agenda for the ceremony. The
background materials contain information about the Blue Ribbon Schools
programs, how the schools can apply, and how they are selected.
Link to Finding Aid
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce)
Systematic
Ira
Magaziner Electronic Commerce Series: From the records of the Domestic Policy
Council, Ira Magaziner’s Electronic Commerce series covers policy
considerations relating to Internet and electronic commerce issues. Ira
Magaziner served as Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development from
1993 to 1998. The files contain correspondence, reports, memos, and articles
dealing with all aspects of internet issues, including copyright and
intellectual property protection, encryption, domain names, and tariff and tax
considerations on products sold via the internet. The records contain
correspondence and reports from various international organizations such as the
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the Ministry of International Trade and
Industry (MITI).
Link to
Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0463-F
This collection consists
of speech drafts, articles, notes, memoranda and correspondence from the files
of Paul Glastris, Speechwriter. Many of the records in this collection were
used by Glastris in the composition of President Clinton’s speeches. Glastris
drafted speeches related to but not limited to education, electronic commerce,
and the State of the Union.
Link to Finding Aid
Eng, Matthew
Systematic 2010-1112-S
This series contains records from Matthew Eng, a
White House Intern in 2000. Matthew Eng’s records include articles,
publications, reports, a Lexis-Nexis user manual, and handwritten notes
relating to background research for various topics including Consumer Fraud and
TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Link to Finding Aid
Executive Order 12875
FOIA 2006-0328-F
This collection consists
of records pertaining to Executive Order 12875, “Enhancing the
Intergovernmental Partnership”. The records include correspondence, note cards,
copies of the executive order, talking points, and memoranda.
Link to Finding Aid
Executive Order 13083
FOIA 2006-0357-F
This collection consists
of records pertaining to Executive Order 13083, “Federalism”. The records
include correspondence, statements, memoranda, email and copies of Executive
Order 13083.
Link
to Finding Aid
Executive Order 13095
FOIA 2006-0358-F
This collection consists
of records pertaining to Executive Order 13095, which suspended Executive Order
13083, “Federalism”. The records include correspondence, press releases, press
briefings and copies of the Executive Order.
Executive Order 13111
FOIA 2006-0175-F
This collection consists
of documents concerning the Sharable
Content/Courseware Reference Model (SCORM), Executive Order 13111, and The
President’s Task Force on Training Technology. SCORM is a collection of
standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. The files contain
correspondence, background materials, resumes, memoranda, email, and copies of
Executive Order 13111 concerning the creation of The President’s Task Force on
Federal Training Technology.
Link to Finding
Aid
Executive Order 13132
FOIA 2006-0359-F
This collection consists
of correspondence, reports, email, press releases, Presidential statements,
and memoranda concerning Executive Order 13132, “Federalism.”
Link to Finding Aid
Fair Housing
FOIA 2006-0220-F
This collection consists
of records concerning the Clinton Administration’s policies on fair housing.
The records include memos, letters, speeches, correspondence, and testimonies.
The records include material from the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), Cabinet Affairs, and Legislative Affairs. The topics covered
by these records include the enforcement of Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Fair
Housing Amendments Act of 1988, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG),
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA), and HUD’s involvement in
Welfare to Work programs. There are also records concerning two secretaries of
HUD, Henry Cisneros and Andrew Cuomo.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2009-0387-F
This collection consists
of records concerning HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
housing in Beaumont and Vidor, Texas and Moving to Opportunity. The records
include a note and memoranda, news articles, and remarks by HUD Secretary Henry
G. Cisneros. The note relates to the integration of public housing in Vidor,
Texas. The memorandum is from Henry Cisneros and also contains information on
the integration efforts for public housing in Vidor, Texas.
Link to Finding
Farewell Address
FOIA 2008-0941-F
This collection consists of material regarding the televised Farewell Address given from the Oval
Office on January 18, 2001, and the President’s Farewell Address to White House staff at Andrews Air Force Base on January
21, 2001. This collection consists primarily of email, more specifically, the email includes speech drafts sent to or from
Jeff Shesol.
Link
to Finding Aid
Farmer, James L. Jr.
FOIA 2008-0695-F
This collection consists of records from when James L. Farmer, Jr. received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 15, 1998. The files contain congressional correspondence and correspondence written by the general public recommending that President William J. Clinton award Dr. James L. Farmer, Jr. the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The files also contain lists of Presidential Medal of Freedom award ceremony invitees and the citations read for each recipient during the ceremony.
Link to Finding Aid
Firmage,
Joseph
FOIA 2008-0359-F
This
collection consists of email in reference to Joe Firmage. Joseph Firmage is an
internet entrepreneur, and well known for his belief in extraterrestrial
intelligence.
Link
to Finding Aid
Five Point Plan to Revitalize Base Closure
Communities
FOIA 2006-1194-F
This collection includes
briefing papers for July 2, 1993 concerning a statement on the Defense Base
Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC) Report. Topics also include meeting
with the foreign press, the Media Opinion Leaders luncheon, video taping/radio
address taping, and a private dinner event at the White House.
Link to Finding Aid
Footlik, Jay*
FOIA
2008-0211-F AV
This
collection consists of photographs featuring staffer Jay Footlik.
Included are the following: photographs on October 20, 1995 of Footlik
aboard Air Force One; Stephen Goodin and Footlik
talking with President Clinton on May 21, 1996; President Clinton being
briefed
by Footlik, Leon Panetta, George Stephanopoulos on July 26, 1996 in the
Oval
Office; Footlik with President Clinton after Radio Address on July 26,
1996;
Danny Wexler and Footlik helping President Clinton prepare for a
Hanukkah event
on December 5, 1996; President Clinton greeting Footlik on the receiving
line
at a Christmas reception on December 9, 1996 in the Blue Room; President
Clinton meeting and greeting the Office of Public Liaison including
Footlik on
December 17, 1996;and President Clinton
meeting Footlik on July 15, 1997.
Link
to Finding Aid with Photo Contact Sheets
Forum 2000
FOIA 2006-0503-F
This collection contains
transcripts, correspondence, general information, and invitations related to a
speech given by the First Lady at Forum 2000 in Prague, Czech Republic on
October 13, 1998. The event was the second in a series of conferences that
Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, hosted to discuss the challenges
of the new millennium. Mrs. Clinton’s speech focused on globalization and the
challenges it presented to economies, governments, and society as a whole. She
reflected upon the previous millennium and conveyed optimism for the following
one.
Link to
Finding Aid
Fountain, Frank
FOIA 2006-1019-F
This collection consists of
materials related to Frank Fountain, a member of the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). It includes letters, email, and cables.
Some of the records within this FOIA came from personnel files, which result in
many closures related to personal privacy.
Link to Finding Aid
France
FOIA 2008-1185-F
This collection consists of the subject file on France from the White House Office of Records Management's (WHORM). The files contain correspondence, speech drafts and schedules, including correspondence between President Clinton and French President Jacques Chirac (1995 - 2007). The schedule for President Chirac's 1996 visit to the White House is also included.
Link to Finding Aid
Franco, President Itamar
FOIA 2009-1158-F
This collection consists of records from Brazilian President Itamar Franco's December 1994 visit to attend the Summit of the Americas in Miami. These materials include National Security Council cover sheets and a memo to the National Security Advisor, requesting a photo opportunity with President Franco and President Clinton.
Link to Finding Aid
Friedman, Stephen
FOIA 2006-1009-F
This collection consists
of memoranda, press releases, forms, correspondence, articles, cables, and
email concerning Stephen Friedman. Friedman was appointed to the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board (PFIAB) in 1999. A considerable
amount of this collection is from personnel files of Friedman, nearly all of
which are closed for personal privacy.
Link to Finding Aid
Gaines, Ernest J.*
FOIA 2009-0774-F AV
This request consists of photographs of President Clinton
awarding the National Medal of Arts and Humanities to Ernest J. Gaines at a
ceremony at DAR Constitution Hall on December 20, 2000. These photos document
the award ceremony and the dinner afterwards at the White House. Gaines is a
fiction author and Louisiana native.
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Photo Contact
Sheets
Galbraith, Marie (Bootsie)
FOIA 2006-0530-F
This collection consists
of a letter from “The Project Starlight Coalition” to President Clinton and a
response from James A. Dorskind, Special Assistant to the President/Director of
Correspondence and Presidential Messages, regarding unidentified flying objects
and extraterrestrials.” Marie (Bootsie) Galbraith is one of many signatories on
this letter. The file also contains a letter, dated August 3, 1995, from James
A. Dorskind, to Steven M. Greer, M.D., Director, Center for the Study of
Extraterrestrial Intelligence regarding unidentified flying objects and
extraterrestrials. Accompanying this correspondence is the White House tracking
sheet.
Link to
Finding Aid
Gays in the Military
FOIA
2006-0227-F
This
collection consists of material related to gays in the military from January
20, 1993 through July 31, 1993. The
records include correspondence, reports, memoranda, and email, and deal with
the development of the policy that became known as "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell". These records include
documents describing the policy proposals made by Senator Sam Nunn and
Representative Barney Frank, and the various legal cases of military personnel
being discharged for admitting their homosexuality. Also included are letters from the public and
from members of Congress expressing their views on the issue.
Link to
Finding Aid
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
FOIA 2010-0722-F
This collection consists of a cable transcript of the March 2, 1993, press conference given by Douglas
Newkirk, the assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR), regarding negotiations with China and their rejoining the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Link to Finding Aid
Genocide
FOIA 2006-0647-F
This collection consists of records describing the ethnic cleansing that took place in Bosnia and
Herzegovina around the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. The massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims that occurred in Srebrenica is
the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. The ICJ (International Court of Justice) deemed it an act of genocide.
This collection consists of memoranda, reports, handwritten notes, newspaper articles, correspondence, talking points,
cables, and press guidance. A highlight of the records concerns the efforts of the United States and its European allies to
bring the perpetrators of genocidal crimes to justice.
Link to Finding
Aid
Gingrich, Newt*
FOIA 2006-0313-F AV
This
collection consists of photographs from a meeting with President Clinton and
Rep. Newt Gingrich. The meeting took place in the Residence on October 28,
1997. President Clinton was accompanied in the meeting by Erskine Bowles and
others. President Clinton is presented a gift from Rep. Gingrich.
Link to Finding Aid with Photo Contact
Sheets
Glastris, Paul
FOIA 2006-0463-F
This collection consists
of speech drafts, articles, notes, memoranda and correspondence from the files
of Paul Glastris, Speechwriter. Many of the records in this collection were
used by Glastris in the composition of President Clinton’s speeches. Glastris
drafted speeches related to but not limited to education, electronic commerce,
and the State of the Union.
Link to
Finding Aid
Gore, Albert*
FOIA 2006-0221-F
This collection consists of material
regarding the 2000 Presidential Election recount of votes in Florida. The
records include speeches, memoranda, transcripts, and email demonstrating the
White House's efforts to chart a course of neutrality during the contested
election between Albert Gore, Jr. and George W. Bush.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0226-F
This collection consists of
materials related to White House communication between January 01, 2000 and
January 20, 2001 regarding Vice President Gore's campaign for President. It
consists of correspondence, memoranda, speech drafts, and schedules related to
various aspects of the campaign."
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA
2009-0835-F AV*
This is a video recording
of President Clinton and Vice President Gore presenting Presidential Science
and Technology medals on September 30,
1993 to award winners on the South grounds of the White House. President
Clinton and Vice President Gore made brief remarks at the ceremony. The
recipients of the National Medal of Science for 1993 were: Daniel Nathans and
Salome G. Waelsch, Biological Sciences; Donald J. Cram, Norman Hackerman,
Chemistry; Alfred Y. Cho, Engineering; Martin D. Kruskal, Mathematics; Val L.
Fitch, and Vera C. Rubin, Physical Sciences. The recipients of the National
Medal of Technology for 1993 were: Walter L. Robb, Advanced Manufacturing
Technology; Amos E. Joel, Jr., William H. Joyce, George Levitt & Marinus
Los, Kenneth H. Olsen, General Product and Process Innovation; Hans W.
Liepmann, Human Resource Development; George Kozmetsky, and William D. Manly,
Technology Transfer.
Link to
Finding Aid
Gore for President
FOIA 2006-0226-F
This collection consists of
materials related to White House communication between January 01, 2000 and
January 20, 2001 regarding Vice President Gore's campaign for President. It
consists of correspondence, memoranda, speech drafts, and schedules related to
various aspects of the campaign."
Link to Finding Aid
Government Performance and Results Act*
FOIA 2009-0862-F AV
This collection consists of a video
recording of President Clinton and Vice President Gore on August 3, 1993 giving
remarks upon signing the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. Representative
John Conyers and Senator William Roth make brief remarks after the President
signs the bill. Video ends with President Clinton in a brief exchange with reporters.
Link to Finding
Aid
Govoha, Beth Medras*
FOIA 2006-0232-F AV
This is a video recording
pertaining to President Clinton’s meeting with the Beth Medrash Govoha
organization (a Haredi yeshiva) at the St. Regis Hotel in New York on March 11,
1996. President Clinton is presented with a special book on behalf of Beth
Medrash Govoha. President Clinton makes remarks to the meeting. The video
recording ends abruptly after the President’s remarks.
Link to
Finding Aid
Graham, Rev. Billy
FOIA 2006-0485-F
This collection consists
of correspondence, meetings, and phone calls between President Clinton and the
Reverend Billy Graham. The topics of correspondence and conversations included
congratulations (to President Clinton on his re-election in 1996), get well
wishes, religious matters, travel, and national health care. Also included are
photocopies of newspaper and magazine articles from the White House Staff and
Office Files, Public Liaison, regarding the life and career of Billy Graham.
Link to
Finding Aid
FOIA
2007-1758-F AV*
This
collection consists of photographs of Hilary Clinton and Billy Graham together
at: the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton on February 4, 1993;
the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace for the Funeral of Richard Nixon on
April 27, 1994; the National Prayer Breakfast on February 2, 1995; the Memorial
Service for of the Oklahoma City Federal building bombing on April 23, 1995;
the Dedication ceremony of the George H.W Bush Library in College Station, TX
on November 11, 1997; the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 1998, and
photographs from the Time Magazine Anniversary Dinner at Radio City Hall in New
York on March, 3, 1998.
Link
to Finding Aid with Photo Contact Sheets
Greer, Steven
FOIA 2006-0483-F
This collection consists
of correspondence and position papers sent to President Clinton from Dr. Steven
Greer, Director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
(CSETI). Also included is correspondence from a National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) spokesperson to Dr. Greer and a NASA press release
regarding unidentified flying objects.
Link to
Finding Aid
Greenspan, Alan*
FOIA 2009-1399-F AV
This collection consists of photographs of Alan Greenspan with President Clinton and with Economic Policy Team Advisors during the Clinton Administration
Link to Finding Aid
Link to Photo Contact Sheets
Government Performance and Results Act*
FOIA 2009-0862-F AV
This collection consists of a video
recording of President Clinton and Vice President Gore on August 3, 1993 giving
remarks upon signing the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. Representative
John Conyers and Senator William Roth make brief remarks after the President
signs the bill. Video ends with President Clinton in a brief exchange with reporters.
Link to Finding
Aid
Guam
FOIA 2006-0193-F
This collection consists of records related to Guam. These records discuss Guam’s political status,
proposed legislation (namely the Guam Commonwealth Act), economic development, tourism, the United States Military’s use of
land in Guam, immigration, and President William J. Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s visits to Guam. This
collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, press clippings, reports, and speeches concerning Guam.
Link to Finding
Aid
Haiti
FOIA 2006-0187-F
This collection contains
materials from the White House staff office of the National Security Council
(NSC), from 1994. Records include
correspondence, memoranda, newspaper articles, press releases, reports, and talking
points. The majority of the materials
are letters from President Clinton to various members of Congress. The President's letters are in response to
congressional members whose original correspondence questioned the President's
authority to use force without prior approval by Congress. Talking points explain the arguments for
military intervention to various groups that the President met at the White
House, including the Congressional Black Caucus, or to various news
organizations and wire services. Reports
include the justification of economic fund transfers in support of the
reconstruction of Haiti, the public affairs strategy for possible military
intervention, or the notification to Congress as required by the War Powers
Resolution, when U.S. forces were deployed.
Link to
Finding Aid
Hall, James Benito
FOIA 2008-1390-F
This collection consists of records relating to Dr. James Benito Hall who served as Ambassador of Goodwill, HIV/AIDS. The records consist of correspondence to, from, or about Dr. Hall.
Link to Finding Aid
Halter, Bill
FOIA 2006-0184-F
This
collection consists of memoranda, correspondence, reports, forms, notes,
articles, and printed electronic email, regarding William A. (“Bill”) Halter.
Bill Halter served as Senior Advisor in the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) from 1993 to 1999. As Senior Advisor, he provided counsel to OMB on
policy issues regarding review and evaluation of the management practices and
budgets of federal departments.
Link to
Finding Aid
Hamman, Helen
FOIA 2009-0895-F
This collection consists of a letter with newspaper clippings from Helen Hamman to President Clinton regarding her father, Don C. Smith, former Director of the Red Cross pre-WWII, and his deathbed confession of a conversation he had with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Link to Finding Aid
Hawking, Stephen
FOIA 2006-0550-F
This collection contains
letters and drafts of letters between President Clinton and Stephen Hawking
relating to the White House Millennium Lectures. The collection also includes biographical
information on Stephen Hawking and a copy of a lecture delivered by Stephen
Hawking for the White House Millennium Lectures.
Link to
Finding Aid
Health Care
FOIA 2006-0223-F
This collection consists largely of the First Lady’s Office
files that include memos, background files, and meeting notes concerning the
formation and actions of the Health Care Taskforce and working groups. These
files include records pertaining to the Health Care Taskforce and working group
development; the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons lawsuit
brought against Hillary Clinton; and the final Report on Health Care Reform.
Files also contain correspondence concerning President Clinton’s decision to
appoint the First Lady to chair the Health Care Taskforce.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0225-F
This collection consists
of correspondence between the White House and Congress from July 1993 through
December 1993 relating to the Health Care Task Force. The topics covered by this collection are
health care form, specifically funding of the new plan, loss of revenue for
physicians and individual coverage.
Link to
Finding Aid
Health Care Task Force folder title list for “Working
Files”
FOIA 2006-0770-F
This collection consists
of reports, memoranda, correspondence, news clippings, and schedules from the
files of Ira Magaziner, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Development.
Magaziner assisted in implementing President Clinton’s Health Care Reform
initiatives by coordinating policy development for the Task Force on National
Health Care Reform. The records include draft reports produced by the working
groups Magaziner formed to advise the Task Force.
Link to
Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0810-F
This collection consists of records related
to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Health Care Reform Files, 1993-1996.
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton served as the Chair of the President's Task
Force on National Health Care Reform. The files contain reports,
memoranda, correspondence, schedules, and news clippings. These materials
discuss topics such as the proposed health care plan, the need for health care
reform, benefits packages, Medicare, Medicaid, events in support of the
Administration's plan, and other health care reform proposals.
Furthermore, this material includes draft reports from the White House Health
Care Interdepartmental Working Group, formed to advise the Health Care Task
Force on the reform plan.
Link to Finding Aid for Segment 1
Link
to Finding Aid for Segment 2
FOIA 2006-0885-F Segment 1
This collection consists of Ira Magaziner’s Health Care Task
Force files including: correspondence, reports, news clippings, press releases,
and publications. Ira Magaziner a Senior Advisor to President Clinton for
Policy Development was heavily involved in health care reform. Magaziner
assisted the Task Force by coordinating health care policy development through
numerous working groups. Magaziner and the First Lady were the President’s
primary advisors on health care. The Health Care Task Force eventually produced
the administration’s health care plan, introduced to Congress as the Health
Security Act. This bill failed to pass in 1994.
Link to Finding Aid
FOIA 2006-0885-F Segment 2
This collection consists of records describing the efforts of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to get health care reform through Congress. This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, memos, papers, and reports. A significant feature of the records are letters from constituents describing their feelings about health care reform and disastrous financial situations they found themselves in as the result of inadequate or inappropriate health insurance coverage.
Link to Finding Aid
Health Care
Interdepartmental Working Group
Systematic
The White House Health
Care Interdepartmental Working Group was created to gather information on
previous health care reform initiatives, generate ideas, and formulate
alternative options and present those options for consideration by the Task
Force on National Health Care Reform. The Interdepartmental Working Group
records consist of documents used, created, received, and maintained by more
than 500 working group participants. The collection is arranged in the
following six series: Participant’s Working Papers, Briefing Books, Tollgate
Books, Audit Groups, Documents Not Produced, and Computer Disks.
Link to
Finding Aid
Health Security Act Series
Systematic
This collection contains
records from the files of Chris Jennings, Senior Health Policy Advisor in the
Domestic Policy Council. The records include memoranda, correspondence,
reports, press releases, briefing papers, statistical data, graphs, legislative
drafts, publications, and news clippings related to the Health Security
Act. This material provides a detailed
analysis of the Act, as well as a chronological subseries that focuses on
legislative strategies to enact the Health Security Act. This collection also contains material
examining the alternatives to the Health Security Act.
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Hermann, Robert
FOIA 2006-1010-F
This collection consists
of memoranda, press releases, forms, correspondence, articles, cables, and
email concerning Robert Hermann.
Hermann was a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board (PFIAB). A considerable amount of
this collection is from the personnel files of Hermann, nearly all of which are
closed for personal privacy.
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HIV/AIDS
FOIA 2006-0947-F
This collection consists of records that relate to the Export-Import Bank and their involvement in the
HIV/AIDS program for Africa. The records relate to the 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa and the Clinton Administration’s efforts to
obtain funding for African debt relief, specifically the Cologne Initiative and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
debt initiative. The records consist of correspondence, speeches, memoranda, talking points and public press releases
regarding the announcement by the Ex-Im Bank of their loan program. The collection includes email regarding HIV/AIDS programs
in Africa, specifically email to and from Sandra Thurman, former director of the Office of the National Aids Policy.
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Systematic 2012-0045-S
This collection consists of email concerning national and international HIV/AIDS policy sent and received by Sandra Thurman. Related subjects found within this collection consist of needle exchange, AIDS awareness events, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Sandra L. Thurman served as the Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) at the White House from 1997 until the end of the administration.
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Hogan, Lyn
Systematic 2010-1083-S
This series contains records relating to teen
pregnancy preventative efforts, the appointment of Dr. Henry Foster as Senior
Advisor to the President for Teen Pregnancy and Youth Issues, the creation of
the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and White House meetings and
events on Teen Pregnancy. The records include memoranda, press releases,
newsletters, reports, publications, articles, pamphlets, correspondence, and
newspaper clippings.
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Systematic 2011-1010-S
This collection consists of Lyn Hogan’s records from her work in the Policy Development Office relating to issues of child care and the child welfare system. There are a significant number of items relating to the child welfare system, including adoption, child abuse, foster care, the juvenile and family court system, and adoption legislation. The records include memos, publications, transcripts, academic reports and papers, correspondence, and articles.
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Holbrooke, Richard*
FOIA
2007-1036-F AV
This collection consists
of photographs of President Clinton during the Balkan Peace Agreement meetings
in Paris, France on December 14, 1995. The photographs document President
Clinton, Secretary Warren Christopher, and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke meeting
at a luncheon with Balkan Heads of State: President Alija Izetbegovic of
Bosnia, President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, and President Slobodan Milosevic
of Serbia at the Ambassador’s Residence in Paris. Other world leaders present
include, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Prime Minister John Major, Prime Minister
Viktor Chernomyrdin, and others.
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Hotel Okura
FOIA 2008-1647-F
This
collection consists of records concerning Iwao Osaki and Hotel Okura in Tokyo,
Japan. Iwao Osaki is owner of Hotel Okura. The records in this collection
consist of one letter relating to Osaki.
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Houston, Jean
FOIA 2006-0498-F
This collection consists
of correspondence, press releases, a statement, a memo, and a news article
regarding Dr. Jean Houston. Dr. Houston is an author and principal founder of,
“The Foundation for Mind Research,” and “The Human Potential Movement.”
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Huckabee, Mike
FOIA 2006-0318-F
This collection consists
of records related to Mike Huckabee, Lieutenant Governor, and subsequently,
Governor of Arkansas. The records include correspondence, memos, email,
telephone logs, and guest lists. The collection consists largely of
correspondence or draft correspondence between the White House and the Governor
and records in which White House staff members make reference to Huckabee.
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Hultin, Jerry*
FOIA 2008-0826-F AV
This collection consists
of photographs of Hillary Rodham Clinton and/or President Clinton with Jerry
Hultin, Undersecretary of the Navy.
Photographs include: Hillary Rodham Clinton arriving at the Marine
Barracks and Navy Yard Museum in Washington, D.C. on March 5, 1999. Some of the
participants include: Secretary Richard Danzig, Undersecretary Jerry Hultin,
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Anthony Williams, Richard Moe, and Robert
Peck. The First Lady and the Principals
on a bus tour of the Navy Yard. The First Lady and the group tour the Navy Yard
Museum. The First Lady addressing the
White House Millennium Council's Washington Navy Yard event. The First Lady greeting military guests at
the event. Also, photographs from the
July 4, 2000 OPSAIL event in New York, NY are included. These photographs feature President Clinton
greeting Jerry Hultin, at the arrival ceremony on the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy
aircraft carrier.
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