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Last updated on January 21,
2009
- Michelle
Obama
- National First Ladies Library
- Bibliography of books, articles, manuscripts, dissertations, and
other printed resources in the library's collection arranged by name of
the First Lady
- Library news and objectives
- Impeachment
Documents Relating to a U.S. President (Auburn University)
- Full text of selected government documents relating to the
impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton
- Includes procedures, reports, and hearings
- Text in Adobe Acrobat format
- Under construction as of October 1998 but considerable progress made
- Impeachment Process
- Documents Center coverage of President Clinton's road toward
impeachment
- Court cases, Starr report and responses, Congressional resolutions
and hearings
- Presidential
Transition Resources (GSA)
- Organization chart of the government
- Links to leadership positions to be filled (most current versions of
the plum and prune books)
- Detailed guidance on records and ethics for nominees and appointees
- Transition laws and links to inaugural information
- American
Experience (PBS)
- Multimedia history of U.S. Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to
Harry Truman
- Political campaign, presidential legacy, and contemporaneous cultural
information
- Launched on Sept. 8, 1997
- American Memory
(Library of Congress)
- Photographs of selected Presidential manuscripts
- George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson available as of
April 1999
- American
Presidency Project (UCSB)
- Unusual collection of historic party platforms since 1828, FDR
fireside chats, Clinton/Bush Saturday radio addresses, and audio-video
archives of the President
- Also includes election results for President with voter turnout data,
inaugural and State of the Union messages
- American
Presidency (Grolier)
- Articles include biographies of the Presidents, Vice Presidents,
and famous candidates
- Historic election results, political parties, Presidential scandals
- Sections serve as a textbook for American government
- Three encyclopedias available: New Book of
Knowledge (Grades 3-8), Academic American
Encyclopedia (Grade 5 to Adult), and Encyclopedia
Americana (Grade 6 to Adult)
- Biographical Information (Ibiblio)
- Links to web information about U.S. presidents beginning with George
Washington
- Usually includes biographies; may include links to schools attended
and speeches
- Part of the larger President web
site which includes listings of Presidential libraries and information
about the First Ladies
- Dead
Presidents
(Manus Hand)
- Gravestones, obituaries, and biographies of presidents
- Additional material may include a last will, audio of speeches, links
to historic texts, archival records of assassinations
- Despite title and some offbeat humor, this is a scholarly research
web site
- Political
Graveyard
- Cemeteries in which over 100,000 federal, state and local politicians
are
buried
- Arranged by name of person, office, birth and death years
- Cemeteries arranged alphabetically and by state/county
- Brief political biography of politician with links to fuller
biographies as available
- Cemetery lists provide biographies of politicians with some links to
the Tiger Map Server
- Extensive section on political families although relationships also
shown under the name search
- Portraits of the
Presidents
- Portraits of presidents, Washington through Clinton, in the National
Portrait Gallery
- Brief Presidential biography and background on the painting
- Thumbnail sketch and full screen version
- Presidents of the United States
(IPL)
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- Extensive web site with pages for each President, Washington to
Obama
- Picture, biographies, election results, first ladies, cabinets,
highlights of administration, historical documents, and links to
related Internet sites
- Special attention paid to links describing historical events and
biographies of cabinet members
- Presidents
USA
- Wonderfully complete compilation of information about the Presidents
- Biographies, Presidential debates, birth and death information, use of
the military, names of pets
- Pictures, quotes, scandals
- Top 20 vote getters in Presidential campaign did not always get
elected!
- Trivia Web Sites
- What
Makes A Good President (American Psychological
Association)
- Press release of presentation made at the American Psychological
Association Convention on August 5, 2000
- Identifies stubbornness and disagreeableness as the two most
important personal characteristics for great presidents
- Classifies past U.S. presidents into eight personality types
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- American
Presidency Project (UCSB)
- Public Papers of the Presidents, 1929-1992
- Complete run of State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses,
1789-present
- Roosevelt Fireside Chats, 1933-44
- National Party Platforms, 1840 to present
- Presidential Executive Orders
- Additional materials only available to UCSB students
- Nixon
Foundation
- Serves as a Presidential museum and library
- Excerpts of taped conversations on the overthrow of Vietnamese
President Diem in 1962, the CIA, and Watergate in Word 97
- Transcripts of additional Nixon letters and memoes
- Public Papers of the President, 1969-74
- National Archives Archival Research Catalog
- Bibliographic data base with many digitized images of federal documents
- Includes declassified Presidential material
- Rich source for President John F. Kennedy with speeches and foreign
relations memoes
- Holdings, photos and some text from the Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman,
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush Libraries
- Numerous search capabilities, including limitation to full text
materials available on the web
- Papers
of the Presidents (Yale/Avalon Project)
- Full text of selected documents, including inaugural addresses,
annual messages, proclamations, vetoes
- As of May 2005, covers Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Truman,
Eisenhower, Clinton, and George W. Bush (2001)
- Papers of Woodrow Wilson. (Princeton, Princeton
University Press, 1966-) Grad Stacks E 600 .W74
- Presidential Papers Microfilm (Library of Congress)
President | UMich Microfilm | President | UMich
Microfilm |
Chester A Arthur |
Serials FILM 3923 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Buhr FILM 3593 |
Grover Cleveland |
Serials FILM 3924 |
James Madison |
Buhr FILM 8512 |
Calvin Coolidge |
Serials FILM 8519 |
James Monroe |
Serials FILM 3926 |
James A. Garfield |
Serials FILM 18440 |
Franklin Pierce |
Buhr FILM 3927 |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Buhr FILM 6390 |
James Polk |
Buhr FILM 9586 |
Benjamin Harrison |
Serials FILM 8511 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Serials FILM 18411 |
William Henry Harrison |
Serials FILM 3354 |
William Taft |
Serials FILM 18442 |
Andrew Jackson |
Serials FILM 7969 |
John Tyler |
Serials FILM 3928 |
Thomas Jefferson |
Serials FILM 17772 |
Martin Van Buren |
Serials FILM 3929 |
Andrew Johnson |
Serials FILM 3925 |
George Washington |
Buhr FILM 8520 |
- Presidents of the United States
(IPL/Summers)
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- Extensive web site with pages for each President, Washington to Clinton
- Picture, biographies, election results, first ladies, cabinets,
highlights of administration, historical documents, and links to
related Internet sites
- Special attention paid to links describing historical events and
biographies of cabinet members
- Public Papers of the Presidents of the
United States
- Public Papers of
the President, 1992+ (GPO)
- Presidential speeches and statements issued by the Office of the
Press Secretary on an annual basis
- Declarations, nominations, and executive orders
- Browsable
and searchable
- The Nixon Papers, 1969-74, are available from the Nixon
Foundation
- The Bush Administration papers, 1989-1993, are
available from
the Bush
Presidential Library
- Updated by Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- The paper edition (Graduate Library Stacks J 80. A25) covers 1929-32
(Hoover) and 1945+ (Truman+)
- Presidential Papers, 1929-1992, are available free of charge from the
University of
Michigan
- Public Papers from 1789 to the present are available for free from theAmerican
Presidency Project
- Richardson's Compilation of the messages and papers of the
presidents, 1789-1897 is located in Buhr as: J 81 .B96
and online through Project
Gutenberg; The Abridgement (J 81 .83) includes
summaries of executive department annual reports, 1858-1920
- Public Papers
of the Presidents of the United States, 1929-2000
(UMich)
- Presidential speeches, executive orders, nominations and press
releases for Herbert Hoover (1929-32) and Harry Truman (1945-1952)
through Bill Clinton (1993-2000)
- Official retrospective digitization project sponsored by the U.S.
Government Printing Office
- Initial page searches all volumes via Boolean logic
- Other Searches includes Boolean and proximity searches for the
author, title or citation
- Browse by President and then use the title page or index to
identify the pages you want to see
- Pages available in image, pdf and text format
- Although on-screen viewing is limited to page-by-page, you can add a
volume to your bookbag and then download or email it to yourself
- Statements of
Administration Policy on Appropriations and Non-Appropriations Bills (Obama)
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "affirmative action" AND "college admissions")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- Definition
- Presidential Directives given different names by different
Presidents:
Presidential Decision Directives (Clinton, 1993-2001)
Presidential
Decision Directive 63/White Paper - Critical Infrastructure
Protection
Multilateral
Peace Operations White Paper
Managing
Complex Contingency Operations White Paper
National
Security Directives (Bush, 1989-93) - NSD
National Security Reviews (Bush, 1989-93) - NSR
National
Security Decision Directives (Reagan, 1981-89) - NSDD
National
Security Study Directives (Reagan, 1981-89) - NSSD
Presidential
Directives (Carter, 1977-81) - PD
Presidential
Security Review Memorandums (Carter, 1977-81) - PRM
National
Security Decision Memorandums (Nixon and Ford, 1969-77) - NSDM
National
Security Study Memorandums (Nixon and Ford, 1969-77) - NSSM
National Security
Action Memoranda (Kennedy, 1961-63, Full Text) - NSAM
National
Security Action Memoranda (Kennedy and Johnson, 1961-69) - NSAM
National
Security Council Intelligence Directives (Truman through Ford,
1947-77) - NSCID | |
- Presidential Executive Orders, 1993 to present
- Executive Order
Disposition Tables, 1937+ (NARA)
- Lists Executive Orders since Franklin D. Roosevelt's E.O. 7532, Jan. 8, 1937
- Provides subject, date signed, location in Federal Register
- Disposition includes link to orders which amended it
- Does not provide the full text; identification tool only
- Weekly
Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Search under the term "Executive Order" and either subject or date in
quotation marks
- Presidential Executive Orders,
Pre-1993
- Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3
- Annual compilation of Executive Orders and Proclamations
- JK 416 .A5 1949 Title 3 [year] with latest edition in the Documents Center--Ref.
- Presidential Executive Orders and Proclamations, 1789-1983
- Index: Doc.Cen. KF 70 .A5511--Ref.
- Corresponding microfiche also located in the Documents Center
- Executive Order
Disposition Tables, 1937+ (NARA)
- Lists Executive Orders since Franklin D. Roosevelt's E.O. 7532, Jan. 8, 1937
- Provides subject, date signed, location in Federal Register
- Disposition includes link to orders which amended it
- Does not provide the full text; identification tool only
- Table of
Congressional Volumes and Presidential Issuances: 1789-1999 (LLSDC -
pdf)
- Lists Congress, year, and first number of both Presidential Executive
Orders and Proclamations with the name of the President
- John F. Kennedy Executive
Orders
- Text of 214 Executive Orders issued 1961-63
- Access by number, date, title, and keyword searching
- Scanned by Maria Schieda for University of
Michigan School of Information and the Documents Center web
site
- Intelligence
Documents (Federation of American Scientists) is the best on-line listing of
Executive Orders related to intelligence activities
- American
Presidency Project (UCSB)
- Public Papers of the Presidents, 1929-1992
- Complete run of State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses,
1789-present
- Roosevelt Fireside Chats, 1933-44
- National Party Platforms, 1840 to present
- Presidential Executive Orders
- Additional materials only available to UCSB students
- Photocopies of tax returns for Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon,
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton while in
office
- Presidential
Vetoes, 1789-1988
- Provides retrospective access to
vetoes,
bill numbers, and final results by President
- Bill Vetoes
- Available via GPO Access beginning 1995
- Check off the boxes for "House Documents" and use "veto" as a keyword
search
- Also available on THOMAS under Bill
Summary and Status, 1973+
- Arranged by Congress
- Vetoes searchable as a stage in the legislative process or in a
separate list
- Line Item
Vetoes
- These are officially entitled Presidential
Cancellations
- Used in 1997 but not longer Constitutional
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- American
Presidency Project (UCSB)
- Public Papers of the Presidents, 1929-1992
- Complete run of State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses,
1789-present
- Roosevelt Fireside Chats, 1933-44
- National Party Platforms, 1840 to present
- Additional materials only available to UCSB students
- Inaugural
Addresses of the Presidents (Columbia University)
- Full text of inaugural addresses beginning with George Washington
- Barack H. Obama
- Speech given January 20, 2009
- Presidential Addresses
- Inaugural, farewell, and State of the Union addresses,
1789-1995
- Commission on Presidential
Debates
- Text of the 2004 debates as they occur
- Text of presidential and vice presidential debates beginning 1960 and every four
years
afterwards
- Public Papers of
the President, 1993+ (GPO)
- Presidential speeches and statements issued by the Office of the
Press Secretary on an annual basis
- Declarations, nominations, and executive orders
- Browsable and searchable
- Updated by Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- The paper edition (Graduate Library Stacks J 80. A25) covers 1929-32
(Hoover) and 1945+ (Truman+)
- The Documents Center also has presidential papers, 1789-1993, on
CD-ROM (Do106)
- Richardson's Compilation of the messages and papers of
the
presidents, 1789-1897 is located in Buhr as: J 81 .B96
and online through Project
Gutenberg; The Abridgement (J 81 .83) includes
summaries of executive department annual reports, 1858-1920
- White House Staff Statistics
- The number of White House Office Staff, Executive Residence Staff
(housekeepings, cooks), and repair staff appear in the annual House
Appropriations Committee hearing: Financial Services and General
Government Appropriations, under Budget Justifications,
Executive Office
of the President
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "affirmative action" AND "college admissions")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- White House and
President's Park; Comprehensive Plan (NPS)
- Twenty-year plan to upgrade the White House and create a visitor center
- Plan released on December 2, 1998
- White
House Web Site - Current
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- Key Presidential documents
documents and direction of Obama Administration policy
- White
House (GW
Bush)
- National Archives version of the January 20, 2009 Bush web
site
- White
House Web Site (Clinton)
- Five versions of the White House web site and one version of
White House electronic publications
- Searchable as a whole; browsable and searchable individually
- Link to the Clinton Presidential
Center includes plans for a physical facility
- White
House Staff List
- List of White House staff and their salaries, 2003
- Presidential
Libraries (Ibiblio)
- James
Madison Papers
- Especially rich for notes on the Continental Congress and
Constitutional Convention
- Over 72,000 digitized materials from the Library of Congress
- Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Museum and Library 1861-1865
- Library to open in 2004
- Web site features articles on misquotes of Lincoln
- Architectural plans, chronologies, related web links on
Lincoln
- Hoover
Presidential Library, 1929-1932
- Description of holdings, covering 1895-1932
- As of September 2000, no documents are digitized
- Roosevelt
Presidential Library, 1933-1945
- Approximately 10,000 on-line files of German and Vatican diplomatic
documents
- Truman Presidential
Library, 1945-52
- Extensive library of digitized, de-classified documents, 1945-52
- Subjects: integration of the armed forces, decision to drop the bomb
on Hiroshima, Marshall Plan, recognition of Israel, Truman Doctrine,
Berlin Airlift
- Includes the full text of the Truman Diary from
1947
- Eisenhower
Presidential Library, 1953-1960
- Digitized material includes World War II, Sputnik, the U-2 Spy Plane
(Francis Gary Powers), and the International Geophysical Year
- Kennedy
Presidential Library, 1961-63
- Sound recordings and speeches
- National Security Action Memoranda, including those on Cuba and Berlin
- Link to Kennedy-Khrushchev exchanges from the State Department
- Johnson
Presidential Library, 1963-1968
- Telephone conversations and extensive oral histories available on the web
- Fifty Presidential daily diaries, including November 22, 1963
- Listing of archival material on foreign relations topics but none is
digitized
- Nixon Collection -
National Archives
- Official location for the Watergate tapes
- Includes audio and visual materials as well as textual documents from
the administration
- Various finding aids
- Nixon
Foundation, 1969-74
- Serves as a Presidential museum and library
- Excerpts of taped conversations on the overthrow of Vietnamese
President Diem in 1962, the CIA, and Watergate in Word 97
- Transcripts of additional Nixon letters and memoes
- Ford Presidential
Library, 1974-76
- National Security Decisions and Memoranda in full text
- Most of the National Security Council minutes held during the period
- Selected documents on the Vietnam War, 1972-76
- Carter
Presidential Library, 1977-1980
- Full text of daily presidential diaries, arranged by day
- Includes Middle East negotiations and the Iran hostage crisis
- As of September 2000, most documents have not been digitized
- Web site includes directions for searching non-digitized archival
material through the National Archives main data base
- Reagan Presidential
Library, 1981-88
- Biographies and audio-visual materials
- Finding aids to the audio-visual and textual collection
- Public Papers, 1981-88, is being digitized; 1981-July 1983 completed
as of September 2000
- Bush Presidential
Library, 1989-1992
- Full text of Public Papers of the President,
1989-92, including reaction to fall of Soviet Union and Gulf War
- Listing of National Security Directives, 1989-1992
- Some of the National Security Reviews are available in Adobe Acrobat
format
- As of September 2000, most publications have not been declassified
for national security reasons
- Clinton
Presidential Materials Project, 1993-2000
- Four versions of the White House web site through Dec. 30, 2000
- Clinton Presidential
Center
- Onliine text of Presidential speeches, fact sheets, appointments,
Executive orders
- Dedication plans for November 18, 2004
- Office of the Pardon
Attorney (USDOJ)
- Clemency standards, regulations, and application forms
- Presidential clemency statistics since 1900 by administration,
including applications and dispositions by year and administration
- Names of pardon and clemency recipients for the Bush-41 and Clinton
administrations
- Maintains historic application files which can be requested under the
Freedom of Information Act
- Presidential
Pardons (Jurist)
- History and legal basis of Presidential pardons with statistics on the
number of pardons granted, 1789 to present
- Primary documents on the Clinton pardons
- Full text of scholarly articles from the 1990s
- Extensive bibliography of scholarly books on the pardon process
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