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By Collection Name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
White House Staff Office Collection
Donated Historical Papers
Committees, Commissions, Boards (Federal Record Groups)
Oral Histories
Audiovisual Collections

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
American Jewish Affairs
The materials in this collection illustrate how the office identified priorities and established support for the Carter Administration's policies among American Jewish leaders and Jewish organizations. Ed Sanders and Alfred Moses both served as advisors to the President on American Jewish affairs and as liaisons to the Jewish community.

B
Bourne, Peter
The materials in this collection relate to Dr. Peter Bourne's role as an advisor to Jimmy Carter during the 1976 Presidential campaign, transition period, and his appointment as Assistant to the President for Health Issues, 1977-78. The files consist of memoranda, correspondence, notes, speech drafts, reports, briefings, invitations, and printed material. The majority of these files pertain to Dr. Bourne's role as the administration's health and drug expert.

C
Cabinet Secretary
Jack Watson served first in this capacity, followed by Gene Eidenberg. This office was responsible for White House liaison with Cabinet members and with governors and mayors and other local government officials. The material currently available for research consists of the files of Jack Watson, Stephen Page, Berry Crawford, Ann Todd, Jane Voget, and the Governors and States file.

Carter/Mondale Campaign Committee - 1976
The materials in this collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, letters, handwritten notes, studies, speeches, recommendations, position papers, press releases, briefing papers, proposals, studies, reports, political statements, and news clippings. These records document all aspects of the 1976 presidential campaign. This includes the formation of political strategy; polling data; administrative type of work such as personnel and budget matters; development of recommended positions and proposals on issues; scheduling all activities pertaining to Governor Carter's travel; speeches; field staff operations in other regions; information relating to press procedures; and support staff material for both the Carter family and Walter Mondale.

Chief of Staff
Only the files of Hamilton Jordan, his deputy, Landon Butler, and Stephen Selig have been opened. Jordan served as Assistant to the President until 1979, when he was named Chief of Staff. He left the White House in May 1980, to run the Carter-Mondale Re-election Campaign. Jordan's files, created during Jordan's service in the White House, reflect his role as political adviser to the President, particularly in the selection of high-level executive branch personnel. After being named Chief of Staff, Jordan also coordinated communication between the White House staff, Cabinet members, and Congress. Digital Library

Congressional Liaison Office
The materials in this collection consist of congressional correspondence, memoranda, notes, briefing papers, campaign schedules, legislative reports, congressional mail summaries, telephone call requests, resumes, news clippings, publications and floor charts that represent the function of the Congressional Office.

P
Plains Files
This collection consists of materials sent to Plains, Georgia to be available to President Jimmy Carter while writing his memoirs. The material details foreign and domestic policy in the Carter administration. The collection also includes a small amount of pre-Presidential and post-Presidential material.

Press Office
The files of the White House Press Office consist of correspondence, memoranda, notes, briefing papers, press releases, news conferences, pool reports, daily schedules, speech drafts, wire copies, photographs, press clippings, and miscellaneous printed material.

Public Liaison
The Office of Public Liaison (OPL) was intended by President Carter to serve as an honest broker between citizenry and government and to be a window to the White House and a window to America. Margaret "Midge" Costanza served as director in the OPL. She was appointed on January 20, 1977, as Assistant to the President, the first woman ever to hold that position.

The materials illustrate how this office was a conduit to the President from religious and ethnic groups and for organizations representing neighborhoods, civil rights, human rights, business and trade, consumer rights, women, youth, energy and the handicapped.

S
Staff Secretary
The files consist of correspondence, memoranda, notes, speeches, briefing material, daily schedules, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed material that represent the function of the Office of the Staff Secretary.

W
Wexler, Anne
These records document Anne Wexler's duties as Special Assistant for Public Outreach including getting the public involved in the development of Presidential priority issues, drafting legislation for those priority issues, and the development of strategy to get the issues before the Congress.