Expand All Collapse All Extent 118 folders, approximately 4,881 pages Summary This collection consists of records related to Asa Hutchinson, Congressman from Arkansas’s Third Congressional District. Records in this collection include: email, television and print news transcripts, house proceedings transcripts, impeachment proceedings transcripts, and records of event attendance. Many email concern immigration, environmental, and impeachment issues. The collection includes cables summarizing accounts of visits by a congressional delegation to Peru and Bolivia to observe counternarcotics operations; a summary concerning a diplomatic note sent to U.S. Congressmen from the Lao government; and an Air Force One manifest for a flight from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to Little Rock, Arkansas and back on March 4, 1997. The remainder of the collection consists of correspondence from Asa Hutchinson and other members of Congress to President William J. Clinton on various subjects. Scope and Content Note The materials in FOIA 2006-0185-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. Asa Hutchinson, a native of Arkansas, is the brother of former U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson. Asa Hutchinson graduated from Bob Jones University in 1972. He earned his juris doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville in 1975. His work in private practice and as city attorney for the city of Bentonville, Arkansas earned Hutchinson an appointment as United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas in 1982. In 1985, Hutchinson resigned as U. S. Attorney to run against incumbent Dale Bumpers for the United States Senate. Hutchinson lost that 1985 campaign and took a position as co-chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party. In 1990, he ran unsuccessfully for Attorney General of Arkansas. Following the retirement of the very popular Democrat David Pryor, Hutchinson won Pryor’s old Congressional seat in the 1996 election. Asa Hutchinson was a member of the 105th, 106th, and 107th Congresses, representing Arkansas’s 3rd Congressional District. During his first term Hutchinson served as one of the managers (prosecutors) during President William Jefferson Clinton’s Senate impeachment proceedings. While in office Hutchinson served on the House Judiciary Committee, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Veteran’s Affairs Committee, and the Government Reform Committee. Hutchinson resigned from Congress in August 2001 following his appointment as director of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) under President George W. Bush. After two years as Director of the DEA, Hutchinson was appointed as the first Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation Security in the newly created Department of Homeland Security; serving in this capacity from 2003 to 2005. Hutchinson joined the law firm Venable LLP in 2005. In 2006, Hutchinson unsuccessfully ran as the Republican candidate against Democrat, Mike Beebe for Governor of Arkansas. Following his defeat, Hutchinson returned to the Venable LLP law firm. In 2014, Hutchinson successfully ran as the Republican candidate for Governor of Arkansas defeating Democrat Mike Ross. Clinton Presidential Records relating to Asa Hutchinson consist of Automated Records Management [Email], Tape Restoration Project [Email], NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management Systems, WHORM Subject Files, and White House Staff and Office Files. Automated Records Management System [Email] (ARMS) and Tape Restoration Project [Email] (TRP) e-mail records responsive to this FOIA originate in the Office of the White House (WHO), Office of Policy Development (OPD) and Default e-mails belonging to no specific agency. These e-mails consist primarily of compilations of media stories from the public sphere and multiple-issue mass e-mails circulated to a wide variety of recipients. Electronic mail records found in WHO consist largely of television and print news transcripts, house proceedings transcripts, impeachment proceedings transcripts, and records of event attendance. However there are records relating to appointments to commissions and legislative business. Electronic records from OPD consist primarily of a series of emails regarding immigration, environmental, and impeachment issues. Records responsive to this FOIA were also found in the NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management Systems. The cables contain summarized accounts of visits by a congressional delegation to Peru and Bolivia to observe counternarcotics operations, a summary concerning a diplomatic note sent to U.S. Congressmen from the Lao government and an Air Force One manifest for a flight from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to Little Rock, Arkansas and back on March 4, 1997. The emails contain lists of pending correspondence from the President and National Security Advisor to members of Congress on a variety of subjects. Documents found from the NSC Records Management consist largely of letters from the President to members of Congress concerning foreign policy issues. Records responsive to this FOIA found in the WHORM Subject Files and the White House Staff and Office Files primarily contain correspondence from Asa Hutchinson and other members of Congress to President William J. Clinton on various subjects. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject Files; Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files; Clinton Presidential Records: ARMS Emails, Clinton Presidential Records: TRP Emails, and Clinton Presidential Records: NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management Systems. The White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) contains a variety of series created to organize and track documents and correspondence. The WHORM Subject File was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management and is a series of categories designated by a letter/number combination. In addition there are WHORM, WHORM Counsel, WHORM (CL), WHORM (OP), WHORM (Too Late), WHORM (Various Offices), and WHORM Alpha Project series. White House Staff and Office Files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and documents all levels of administrative activity. WHORM files are processed at the document level; whereas, Staff and Office Files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity, it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to the subject area. The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) is a database that contains email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential Records email. The ARMS dataset is comprised of 6 sub-series of email records called “Buckets.” The buckets include NPR, OPD, POTUS, WHO, CEA, and Default. ARMS emails are arranged chronologically by creation date. The Tape Restoration Project (TRP) is a database consisting of restored emails from the Automated Records Management System from July 1994 through June of 2000. The TRP is a database that contains email records of the Executive office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential record email. The TRP dataset is comprised of 6 sub-series of email records called “Buckets.” The buckets include NPR, OPD, POTUS, WHO, CEA, and Default. ARMS emails are arranged chronologically by creation date. FOIA 2006-0185-F includes WHORM records from these subject codes: [CA] [Civil Aviation] [CO001-07] [Middle East [CO038] [China] CO080] [Iraq, Republic of] [CO082] [Israel] [CO085] [Japan] [CO112] [Mexico (United Mexican States)] ED [Education] FA [Federal Aid] FA002 [Federal Aid – Education] FG001 [Federal Government – President of the United States] FG001-02 [Federal Government – Personal Representative of the President] FG001-08 [Federal Government - Presidential Telephone Calls] FG031 [Federal Government – Congress of the United States, The] FG122 [Federal Government – Environmental Protection Agency] FI004 [Finance – Budget – Appropriations] FI010 [Finance - Taxation] GI001 [Gifts from the President] HE006-01 [Health – Narcotics] IT138 [International Organizations – World Trade Organization] ME001-03 [Messages – Condolence/Death] ND017 [National Security – Defense – Weapons-Ordnance-Munitions] PO [Postal Service] RM [Religious Matters] RM034 [Religious Matters – Moslem (Muslim)(Islamic)] SP230-96 [Speeches – State of the Union 1996] TA004-07 [Trade – Metal Products Trade]. Access Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 USC 2201) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions. Copyright Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, USC) which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Provenance Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA). Processed by Staff Archivist, February 2010. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Last Modified Date 2015-03-10 Container List The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2006-0185-F: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records Scanned: Case Numbers 404378 424459 438907 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject Files Category Case Number CA Scanned: Case Number 207572 CO001-07 Scanned: Case Number 257409 CO038 Scanned: Case Number 225136 CO038 Scanned: Case Number 240973 CO038 Scanned: Case Number 241118 CO038 Scanned: Case Number 273232 CO080 Scanned: Case Number 418083 CO082 Scanned: Case Number 250676 CO082 Scanned: Case Number 278953 CO085 Scanned: Case Number 210346 CO112 Scanned: Case Number 219843 CO112 Scanned: Case Number 219872 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject Files (continued) Category Case Number ED Scanned: Case Number 237465 FA Scanned: Case Number 404464 FA002 Scanned: Case Number 259255 FG001 Scanned: Case Number 294117 FG001-02 Scanned: Case Number 310380 FG001-08 Scanned: Case Number 264269SS FG031 Scanned: Case Number 273515SS FG031 Scanned: Case Number 430177 FG122 Scanned: Case Number 222933 FG122 Scanned: Case Number 223068 FI004 Scanned: Case Number 402444 FI004 Scanned: Case Number 403237 FI004 Scanned: Case Number 416372 FI004 Scanned: Case Number 424431 FI010 Scanned: Case Number 229507 FI010 Scanned: Case Number 255631 Box 2 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject Files (continued) Category Case Number GI001 Scanned: Case Number 232164 HE006-01 Scanned: Case Number 247058 IT138 Unscanned: Case Number 208244 ME001-03 Scanned: Case Number 271449 ND017 Scanned: Case Number 237861 PO Scanned: Case Number 236453 RM Scanned: Case Number 236568 RM034 Scanned: Case Number 410574 SP230-96 Scanned: Case Number 208177 TA004-07 Scanned: Case Number 318036 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Presidential Personnel Przeworski, Bethany Folder #3 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 11646] Folder #10 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 11646] Folder #7 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 11650] Folder #7 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 13513] Folder #1 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 13514] Folder #5 [Asa Hutchinson] [OA/ID 13514] Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] OPD [OA/ID 250000] [Asa Hutchinson] [03/03/1997-01/20/1997] [01/22/1999-05/26/1999] [06/02/1999] [1] [1] [06/02/1999] [1] [2] [06/02/1999] [2] [1] [06/02/1999] [2] [2] [06/02/1999] [2] [3] [06/02/1999] [2] [4] [06/02/1999] [2] [5] Box 3 [06/02/1999] [2] [6] [03/06/1997-02/17/2000] [02/17/2000-07/18/2000] WHO [OA/ID 500000] [Asa Hutchinson] [05/25/1995-07/10/1996] [07/11/1996-11/26/1996] [01/27/1997] [03/03/1997-05/19/1997] [06/12/1997-07/14/1998] Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] (continued) WHO [OA/ID 500000] [Asa Hutchinson] [07/28/1998-12/04/1998] [12/11/1998-12/16/1998] [12/22/1998-01/12/1999] [01/13/1999-01/16/1999] [01/16/1999] Box 4 [01/17/1999-01/20/1999] [01/21/1999-01/23/1999] [01/25/1999-01/27/1999] [01/27/1999] [1] [01/27/1999] [2] [01/28/1999] [1] [01/28/1999] [2] [01/29/1999-02/08/1999] [02/08/1999-02/10/1999] [02/11/1999] [02/11/1999-05/18/1999] [05/26/1999-09/30/1999] Box 5 [10/12/1999] [11/03/1999-02/02/2000] [01/26/2000] [1] [01/26/2000] [2] [02/04/2000-03/18/2000] [03/24/2000] [03/27/2000-03/30/2000] [03/31/2000-05/03/2000] [05/04/2000] [1] [05/04/2000] [2] [05/05/2000] [1] [05/05/2000] [2] [05/09/2000-06/15/2000] Box 6 [06/17/2000-10/17/2000] [11/07/2000-01/16/2001] Default [OA/ID 1100000] [Asa Hutchinson] [06/08/1999-02/07/2000] NSC [OA/ID 1200000] [Hutchinson near Asa…] [03/03/1997] [06/01/2000 – 07/31/2000] Clinton Presidential Records: Tape Restoration Project [Email] OPD [OA/ID 250000] [Asa Hutchinson] [05/03/1999] WHO [OA/ID 500000] [Asa Hutchinson] [07/14/1998-11/19/1998] Default [OA/ID 1100000] [Asa Hutchinson] [03/03/1997-04/17/1998] Clinton Presidential Records: NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management Systems NSC Cables Jan 1997-Dec 1998 [Hutchinson near Asa…] [03/04/1997 – 08/10/1998] [OA/ID 520000] Jan 1999-Dec 2000 [Hutchinson near Asa…] [01/19/2000] [OA/ID 530000] NSC Emails Exchange-Record (Sept 97-Jan01) [Hutchinson near Asa…] [12/17/1997 – 04/25/2000] [OA/ID 620000] Exchange-Non-Record (Mar 97-Jan 01) [Hutchinson near Asa…] [12/17/1997 – 04/13/2000] [OA/ID 630000] NSC Records Management [Hutchinson near Asa…] 9701232 [OA/ID 3223] 9703173 [OA/ID 1619] 9707366 [OA/ID 1649] 9707411 [OA/ID 1650] Box 7 9708392 [OA/ID 1658] 9800432 [OA/ID 3250] 9905260 [OA/ID 2739] 9908073 [OA/ID 2758] 0001062 [OA/ID 4077] 0003199 [1] [OA/ID 4090] 0003199 [2] [OA/ID 4090] 0005233 [OA/ID 4102]