Download Page as PDF Expand All Collapse All Extent 317 folders, approximately 19,016 pages Summary This collection contains the files of Bill Burton, who served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Policy and Staff Director for Chief of Staff Mack McLarty from 1993 to 1994. The collection consists of correspondence from members of Congress and congressional staff, federal agencies, memoranda, printed emails, news articles, schedules, invitation lists, publications, reports, press releases, statistical material, briefing materials and handwritten notes. Scope and Content Note This collection contains the files of Bill Burton, who served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Policy and Staff Director for Chief of Staff Mack McLarty from 1993 to 1994. Burton's responsibilities included managing policy issues for the Chief of Staff. He also coordinated energy issues for the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign in 1992 and for the transition of the President-elect. 2025-0830-S consists of correspondence from members of Congress and congressional staff, federal agencies, memoranda, printed emails, news articles, schedules, invitation lists, publications, reports, press releases, statistical material, briefing materials and handwritten notes. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records of this systematically processed series were found in Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files, Chief of Staff Office, Bill Burton. This systematic collection is arranged into 3 subseries and then alphabetically within each subseries Access Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. Chapter 22, as amended) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 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 (17 U.S.C. Chapter 1) 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, 2025. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Last Modified Date 2026-07-31 Container List Following is a list of folders processed for the Bill Burton series: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Chief of Staff Bill Burton Correspondence [Accomplishments - First 100 Days] [OA/ID 2777] AIDS Czar [OA/ID 2776] Austin Chamber Event 2-8-94 [OA/ID 2776] [Cabinet Affairs] [OA/ID 2777] Cabinet (General) [OA/ID 2775] [Campaign Finance Reform] [OA/ID 2777] Chief of Staff’s Office [OA/ID 2777] [Climate Change 9/93] [OA/ID 2777] [Clippings - POTUS [President of the United States] Comments] [OA/ID 2777] Communications Equipment [OA/ID 2776] Conference Rooms [OA/ID 2776] Computer Gifts to White House [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence and Clippings 1993] [OA/ID 2777] [Correspondence - DNC] [Democratic National Committee] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence - Jim Bailey - 5/93-7/93] [OA/ID 2777] Correspondence Samples [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Agriculture] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - CEA] [Council of Economic Advisers] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Commerce] [OA/ID 2775] Box 2 [Correspondence with Cabinet - Defense] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Department of State] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Education] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Energy] [1] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Energy] [2] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Energy] [3] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - EPA [Environmental Protection Agency][OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Health and Human Services] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Housing and Urban Development] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Interior] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Justice] [OA/ID 2775] Box 3 [Correspondence with Cabinet - Labor] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - OMB [Office of Management and Budget] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - ONDCP [Office of National Drug Control Policy][OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Transportation] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Treasury] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - USTR [United States Trade Representative] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Cabinet - Veterans Affairs] [OA/ID 2775] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Abramson - Arnold 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Baucus - Byrd 1993] [1] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Baucus - Byrd 1993] [2] [OA/ID 2774] Box 4 [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Callahan - Cox 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: D’Amato - Durbin 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Dick Zimmer 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Edwards - Exon 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Fawell - Frank 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Fred Upton 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Gallo - Gutierrez 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Hamilton - Hutchinson 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Jacobs - Johnson 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Kaldor - Krueger 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Lambert - Lott 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Machtley - Murray 1993] [1] [OA/ID 2774] Box 5 [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Machtley - Murray 1993] [2] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Oberg - Oxley 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Pelosi - Pryor 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Pete Visclosky 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Randstad - Rostenkowski 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Sam Nunn 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Sarbanes - Synar 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Tallackson - Tucker 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with Elected Officials: Waters - Wolf 1993] [OA/ID 2774] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Domestic Policy Advisor - Greg Simon][OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - FLOTUS [First Lady of the United States] Staff] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - General Staff] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Holiday/Weekend Staffing] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Intergovernmental Affairs: Regina Montoya][OA/ID 2776] Box 6 [Correspondence with White House Officials - Katie McGinty] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Legislative Affairs - Howard Paster] [1][OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Legislative Affairs - Howard Paster] [2] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - National Security Council - Tony Lake, Sandy Berger] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - National Service - Eli Segal] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Political Affairs] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Presidential Mail - Nancy Hernreich] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Personnel - Bruce Lindsey] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Presidential Correspondence and Messages][OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Public Liaison - Alexis Herman] [1] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Public Liaison - Alexis Herman] [2] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Rahm Emanuel] [OA/ID 2776] Box 7 [Correspondence with White House Officials - Scheduling - Marcia Hale] [1] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Scheduling - Marcia Hale] [2] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Science and Technology - John Gibbons][OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Social Secretary] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Special Advisor - George Stephanopoulos][OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - Staff Secretary - John Podesta] [OA/ID 2776] [Correspondence with White House Officials - White House Management and Administration -David Watkins] [OA/ID 2776] [Counsels Office] [OA/ID 2777] [David Gergen] [OA/ID 2777] Democratic Governors Association [OA/ID 2776] Democratic Leadership Council/Progressive Policy Institute [OA/ID 2776] Details [OA/ID 2776] [Domestic Policy] [OA/ID 2777] [Economy/Budget] [OA/ID 2777] [FLOTUS [First Lady of the United States] - 1993] [OA/ID 2777] [George Stephanopoulos] [OA/ID 2777] [Government Aircraft/Travel] [OA/ID 2777] Hazel O’Leary - London 10/26 [OA/ID 2775] [Henry Leon Blythe Ritzenthaler] [OA/ID 2777] Box 8 [January 15,1993 News Articles] [loose] [OA/ID 2776] [Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg] [OA/ID 2774] Mainstream Forum [OA/ID 2776] [Mark Gearan - Communications] [OA/ID 2777] [Media Affairs] [OA/ID 2777] [Memoranda and Correspondence 1993] [OA/ID 2777] MMcL [Mack McLarty]: White House Hard Pass Policy [OA/ID 2777] National Governors Association [OA/ID 2776] [Personnel Files Probe] [OA/ID 2775] [Personnel - GAO [General Accounting Office] Audit] [OA/ID 2777] [Potential Nominations] [OA/ID 2777] [Presidential Phone Calls] [OA/ID 2777] [Regulatory Review 7/93] [OA/ID 2777] [Robert Rubin and National Economic Council] [1] [OA/ID 2777] [Robert Rubin and National Economic Council] [2] [OA/ID 2777] Ron Brown - FBI Investigation [Clippings] [OA/ID 2775] [Secret Service] [OA/ID 2777] Box 9 Security [OA/ID 2776] Senator Carol Mosely-Braun [OA/ID 2774] Skip Rutherford [OA/ID 2776] Strategy [1] [OA/ID 2776] Strategy [2] [OA/ID 2776] [Treasury] [OA/ID 2777] White House and Cabinet Biographies [OA/ID 2775] [White House Operations] [OA/ID 2777] White House Salary Disclosure [OA/ID 2776] White House - Secret Service [OA/ID 2776] White House Security/Secret Service [OA/ID 2776] White House Transportation [OA/ID 2776] Issue Files ACORN [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now] [OA/ID 2778] AECC [Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation] [OA/ID 2778] Alternative Fuels [OA/ID 2778] Amtrak [OA/ID 2778] Arkansas Issues [OA/ID 2778] Biotechnology [OA/ID 2778] Box 10 Brady Bill [OA/ID 2778] Brinker [OA/ID 2778] Budget [1] [OA/ID 2778] Budget [2] [OA/ID 2778] Budget [3] [OA/ID 2778] Budget [4] [OA/ID 2778] California [Clipping] [OA/ID 2778] Camp David [OA/ID 2778] Child Pornography [1] [OA/ID 2778] Box 11 Child Pornography [2] [OA/ID 2778] Civil Rights Commission [OA/ID 2778] Credit Crunch/Small Business [OA/ID 2778] Crime [OA/ID 2778] DFAS [Defense Finance and Accounting Service] [OA/ID 2779] Directories [OA/ID 2779] DLC [Democratic Leadership Council] [OA/ID 2779] [Economy/Budget] [1] [OA/ID 2778] [Economy/Budget] [2] [OA/ID 2778] Federal Fleet Conversion [1] [OA/ID 2779] Federal Fleet Conversion [2] [OA/ID 2779] Flooding - Midwest [OA/ID 2779] Forest Conference [OA/ID 2779] Box 12 G-7 Jobs Conference [OA/ID 2779] Gas and Oil Initiative [OA/ID 2779] Gays in the Military [OA/ID 2779] Gingrich [Clipping] [OA/ID 2779] Grazing Fees [OA/ID 2779] Information Highways [OA/ID 2779] Iraqi Bombing [OA/ID 2779] Judiciary [OA/ID 2779] Labor [OA/ID 2779] LIHEAP [Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Bosnia [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Campaign Finance Reform [1] [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Campaign Finance Reform [2] [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Chevron (Ken Derr, Chairman of Board) Investment in Soviet Union [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: China, Most Favored Nation [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Clinton Presidential Library [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Common Cause [OA/ID 2778] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Defense Conversion Plan [Base Closures] [1] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Defense Conversion Plan [Base Closures] [2] [OA/ID 2779] Box 13 MMcL[Mack McLarty]: DGA [Democratic Governors’ Association] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: FCC [Federal Communications Commission] Cable Television [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Foreign Heads of State (Ambassadors, Prime Ministers, etc.) [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: G-7 [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Health Care [1] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Health Care [2] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Health Care [3] [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Health Care [4] [OA/ID 2779] Box 14 MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Kennedy Center [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Los Angeles [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: National Service [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Olympics [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Peacekeeping File [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Puerto Rico [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Reconciliation [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Reverend Jesse Jackson [OA/ID 2779] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Ross Perot [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: Striker Replacement Bill [OA/ID 2780] MMcL[Mack McLarty]: USAir - British Airways [OA/ID 2781] Marginal Production Credits [OA/ID 2779] Maritime Issue [OA/ID 2779] Mauro, Garry [OA/ID 2779] [Meeting Notes] [OA/ID 2778] NAD [North American Development] Bank [OA/ID 2780] NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] [1] [OA/ID 2780] Box 15 NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] [2] [OA/ID 2780] Oil [OA/ID 2780] Oil Prices [OA/ID 2780] PATCO [Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization] [OA/ID 2780] POTUS [President of the United States] Family [OA/ID 2780] Presidential Legal Issues [OA/ID 2780] Progressive Policy Institute [OA/ID 2780] Radiation [Experiments] [OA/ID 2780] REA (Rural Electrification) [OA/ID 2780] Reinventing Government [OA/ID 2780] Resumes - General File [OA/ID 2780] Russian Oil and Gas [OA/ID 2780] School Vouchers [OA/ID 2780] Space Shuttle [OA/ID 2780] [State of the Union Ideas and Suggestions] [loose] [OA/ID 2780] Super Collider [1] [OA/ID 2780] Super Collider [2] [OA/ID 2780] Box 16 Super Collider [3] [OA/ID 2780] Superfund [OA/ID 2781] Taxes [OA/ID 2781] Texas Politics [OA/ID 2781] Texas Trip [OA/ID 2781] Title XI [OA/ID 2781] [Trade Expansion Act and Oil] [1] [OA/ID 2780] [Trade Expansion Act and Oil] [2] [OA/ID 2780] [Trade Expansion Act and Oil] [3] [OA/ID 2780] [Trade Expansion Act and Oil] [4] [OA/ID 2780] Box 17 Turkish Power Project [OA/ID 2781] TV Violence [OA/ID 2781] Valenti, Jack [OA/ID 2781] Vietnam [OA/ID 2781] Waco [OA/ID 2781] Webb Hubbell [OA/ID 2779] Welfare Reform [Folder 1] [OA/ID 2781] Welfare Reform [Folder 2] [OA/ID 2781] White House Fellows [OA/ID 2781] Wright, Betsey [OA/ID 2781] Yucca Mountain [OA/ID 2781] Miscellaneous [Africa] [OA/ID 2782] [Atlanta Federal Building] [OA/ID 2782] [Campaign Finance Reform] [OA/ID 2782] Child Porn [OA/ID 2781] Child Pornography [OA/ID 2781] [Climate Change Action Plan] [1] [OA/ID 2782] [Climate Change Action Plan] [2] [OA/ID 2782] [Climate Change Action Plan] [3] [OA/ID 2782] Box 18 [Clippings with Comment] [OA/ID 2782] Congressional Caucus [OA/ID 2781] [Congressional Whips] [OA/ID 2781] [“The Contemporary American President’] [OA/ID 2782] Correspondence from the President [OA/ID 2781] Correspondence - Outgoing [OA/ID 2781] [Counsel] [OA/ID 2781] Counsel Memos [OA/ID 2781] [Custom Coach “Presidential Coach”] [OA/ID 2782] [Democratic National Committee/Democratic Leadership Council] [OA/ID 2782] [Department of the Interior - Boy Scouts] [OA/ID 2782] [Detroit Railway Tunnel] [OA/ID 2782] [Domestic Policy] [OA/ID 2782] [Empty] [OA/ID 2782] [Energy] [1] [OA/ID 2782] [Energy] [2] [OA/ID 2782] Entertainment Fund [OA/ID 2781] [Environmental Protection Agency] [OA/ID 2782] Box 19 EOP [Executive Office of the President] Drug-Free Workplace Plan [OA/ID 2781] Ethics [OA/ID 2781] [Federal Communications Commission] [OA/ID 2781] [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] [OA/ID 2781] [Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force] [OA/ID 2782] [Federal Reserve] [OA/ID 2781] [FEMA] [Federal Emergency Management Agency] [OA/ID 2781] [FEMA] [Federal Emergency Management Agency] [OA/ID 2782] Foreign Participation in US Technology Initiatives [OA/ID 2782] From Mack [OA/ID 2781] [General Accounting Office] [OA/ID 2781] [General Services Administration] [OA/ID 2781] [Health Reform] [OA/ID 2782] [HIV/AIDS] [OA/ID 2782] [House and Senate Correspondence] [OA/ID 2782] Box 20 [Judge Richard S. Arnold] [OA/ID 2782] [Judicial] [OA/ID 2782] [Labor - Comprehensive Worker Adjustment Package] [OA/ID 2782] [“Live from Bell Labs”] [OA/ID 2782] Mack/To Discuss [OA/ID 2781] [Maritime and Shipbuilding Issues] [OA/ID 2782] Mess [OA/ID 2781] [Miscellaneous] [OA/ID 2782] [NAFTA] [North American Free Trade Agreement] [Folder 1] [OA/ID 2782] [NAFTA] [North American Free Trade Agreement] [Folder 2] [OA/ID 2782] [National Security Issues] [OA/ID 2782] [National Transportation Safety Board] [OA/ID 2781] [Office Management] [OA/ID 2782] Parking Allocations [OA/ID 2781] Personal Correspondence [1] [OA/ID 2781] Personal Correspondence [2] [OA/ID 2781] [Personnel] [OA/ID 2782] Phil Lader/Projects [OA/ID 2781] Box 21 [Police Hiring] [OA/ID 2782] [Presidential Boards and Commissions - Appointments] [OA/ID 2782] Records Management [OA/ID 2781] [“Reemployment Act of 1994”] [OA/ID 2782] [Requests] [OA/ID 2782] Scheduling Procedures [OA/ID 2781] Senate Domestic Policy Committee [OA/ID 2781] [Small Business Administration] [OA/ID 2781] [Small Business Administration] [OA/ID 2782] [Superconducting Super Collider] [OA/ID 2782] Superfund [OA/ID 2781] Toback [OA/ID 2781] Tom Hoog, Hill and Knowlton [OA/ID 2781] [Treasury] [OA/ID 2782] [United Mine Workers Litigation] [OA/ID 2782] [United States Postal Service] [OA/ID 2781] WAVES [White House Worker and Visitor Entry System] [OA/ID 2781] [Weekly Reports] [OA/ID 2782] White House Payroll [OA/ID 2781] White House Travel Guidelines [OA/ID 2781] Whitewater [OA/ID 2781]