Links to Sources on the Presidency
(This
is only a very small fraction of the things that are out there. But these are sources that you might find
useful.)
Official Sites
(governmental and institutional)
The White House
(The official government page)
The
Executive Office of the President
Statistical
Abstract of the United States (US census Bureau compilation of
statistics on social and economic conditions in the US
Public Papers of the Presidents
of the US (official compilation of presidential documents and speeches)
Foreign Relations of the
United States (State Department archive of declassified documents on US foreign
relations)
Presidents
Library of
Congress: Web Resources
American Presidency Project
(Historical speeches and other documentary resources)
White House Historical
Association
Executive
Orders (from the American Presidency Project)
Presidential Directives
(collection of unclassified or declassified national security directives)
Resources on the Presidents
(Thanks to Matt and LouAnne Taylor)
Politics and Elections
National
Archives and Records Administration info on the electoral college
Commission on
Presidential Debates (non-partisan organization that sponsors
presidential debates)
President Elect
(history of the electoral college)
Democracy
in Action page – George Washington University (scholarly tracking of
the presidential race)
Center for Responsive Politics (analysis of the
fundraising issues and who is collecting what money from whom)
Center
for Public Integrity (non-profit group that tracks lobbying and
campaign fundraising)
Public Citizen’s 527 page (also tracks
fundraising by 527 non-profit political organizations)
Campaigns and
Elections (Congressional Quarterly’s campaign magazine)
Yahoo Directory on the 2004 Election
Dave Leip’s
Atlas of US Presidential Elections (super data on voting and
outcomes; the best easy to use source for this nationwide and state by state).
Electoral
College charts (private site that has great charts)
Real Clear
Politics (tracks all elections and key issues at state and federal
level; an archive of info from all kinds of sources)
Politics1
(tracks election races around the nation; the advertisements make it look like
it leans to the liberal side, but it is pretty non-partisan in its
articles. It has some good stuff, but
also tracks weirdness in politics. Scroll
down the right side of the page and there are links to Blogs from right, center,
and left)
Scholarly and Non-Profit
Yahoo Directory of Presidential Websites
Center for the
Study of the Presidency (scholarly organization devoted to
presidential studies)
Concord
Coalition (non-partisan organization that tracks government
spending, the federal deficit, and the national debt)
Center for Budget and
Policy Priorities (scholarly and non-partisan organization that
tracks government spending, the federal deficit, and the national debt)
Presidential
Web Sites (sponsored by several universities and some non-profits,
has links to presidential libraries and web sites on all presidents)
US Presidency links (Phenomenal resource; Prof. Russell Renka’s
page (Southeast Missouri State University).
Biographies of Presidents (from Parker/Waichman Law Firm.
Thanks to the Girl Scouts!)
A Kid's Local Internet Guide to Presidents (a web
site constructed by local elementary students with information on each
President).
Legislation and Policy
Thomas
(Library of Congress’ page that tracks legislation)
Congressional
Quarterly Weekly (journal that tracks what goes on in congress, bill
by bill, vote by vote; this is one of the magazines that members of congress
read)
US Supreme Court
home page
Legal
Information Institute (compendium of Supreme Court decisions)
Government Accountability
Office (GAO -- had been the General Accounting Office –
congressional bipartisan arm that examines every policy with regards to
implementation and costs. The basic
governmental arm for program evaluation)
Congressional Budget Office
(CBO -- bipartisan congressional arm that examines the federal budget proposals
of congress and the president)
Congressional
Research Service (CRS) sites
Marian Gould Gallagher Library at University of
Washington School of Law page on CRS (indexes and lots of links; the biggest
source for CRS reports)
Non-governmental organization search page
CRS reports on defense and national
security (Federation of American Scientists)
CRS reports on foreign policy
compiled by the US State Department
Center for Democracy and Technology, Open CRS
page (Non-profit organization’s page that is attempting to lobby congress to
get CRS reports made available to the public; all the links above on CRS are
pdf files of CRS reports that have been given to these non-profit organizations
by members of congress, even though they are officially barred from doing
so. This page also has links to CRS
reports)