(2021-0176-F) Economic Breakfast Meetings

3 folders, approximately 434 pages

This collection contains records concerning breakfast meetings between Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, or Lawrence Summers. This collection consists of emails of weekly reports from Robert Rubin to Erskine Bowles, White House Chief of Staff. These weekly reports include mention of Breakfast with Greenspan among scheduled activities for Rubin.

The materials in FOIA 2021-0176-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. Responsive records are also found in 2006-0194-F, 2006-0195-F, 2007-0143-F (seg 2), 2007-0624-F, 2010-0673-F, 2015-0463-F, 2016-0941-F, 2017-1075-F, 2017-1076-F, 2019-0151-F, and 2019-0152-F. Alan Greenspan served as the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Robert Rubin served as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Lawrence Summers served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Materials responsive to this FOIA request include email messages containing a reference to breakfast between Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, or Lawrence Summers. All responsive emails are weekly reports from Robert Rubin to Erskine Bowles, White House Chief of Staff. These weekly reports include mention of Breakfast with Greenspan among scheduled activities for Rubin.

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Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System, Clinton Presidential Records: Tape Restoration Project. 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 email. The ARMS database is comprised of six sub-series of email records called "buckets." The buckets generally represent a specific White House office. The buckets are titled: NPR for National Performance Review, OPD for Office of Policy Development, POTUS for President of the United States, WHO for White House Office, CEA for Council of Economic Advisers, and Default for emails not associated with an office. The WHO bucket contains email created or received by individual with an Executive Office of the President White House user account not identified as CEA, NPR, or OPD. The Tape Restoration Project (TRP) is a database consisting of restored emails from the Automated Records Management System (ARMS) 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 database is comprised of the same six sub-series of email as in ARMS. ARMS and TRP emails are arranged by topic, there-under by bucket, and there-under chronologically by creation date.

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.

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).

Staff Archivist, 2021. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.

The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2021-0176-F:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
WHO [OA/ID 500000]
[Greenspan Breakfast]
[01/15/1998 - 02/19/1998]
[02/26/1998 - 09/16/1998]
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management SystemTape Restoration
Project
[Greenspan Breakfast]
[01/15/1998 - 07/02/1998]