Expand All Collapse All Extent 241 folders, approximately 10,751 pages Summary This collection consists of records related to Janet Yellen, who was Chairperson of the CEA [Council of Economic Advisors] from 1997-1999. It contains memoranda and briefings concerning details such as economic indicators, industrial production, housing starts, consumer attitudes, consumer price index, inflation, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, and stock prices. This collection also consists of email to and from Yellen’s White House email account includes discussion of a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to Product Liability, Kyoto (Climate Change), Federal Involvement in Retail Electricity Competition (FERC), Trade Liberalization, World Trade Organization (WTO) trade wars, the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis, the 1998 Japanese Financial Crisis, and Y2K preparations. Many emails are related to preparing the Economic Report of the President. Scope and Content Note The materials in 2013-0723-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. FOIA request 2013-0723-F contains records dealing with Janet Yellen’s work in the Clinton Administration. Specifically, this focuses on the years she spent as Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). For a period of approximately 30 months (February 18, 1997 – August 3, 1999) Yellen served as a guiding force behind the CEA and played a major role in shaping the economic policies of the Clinton Administration. Yellen has held a number of positions since the Clinton Administration where she has assisted formulating economic policy. President Obama nominated her for the post of vice-chair of the Federal Reserve System in 2010, and four years later after being confirmed by the Senate she became the Chair of that body. In 2014, Yellen received the distinction of being selected by Forbes as the second most influential woman in the world. Responsive documents can be found in the White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject File, General and CF. Memoranda and briefings concern details such as economic indicators, industrial production, housing starts, consumer attitudes, consumer price index, inflation, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, and stock prices. The briefings entitled the “Weekly Economic Briefing of the President of the United States” run from February 28, 1997 through July 23, 1999. Yellen is presumed to have been the author of the reports, which contain notes and President Clinton’s handwriting. Topics covered include current developments, analysis of specific problems, regional roundups, international issues, and U.S. economic and financial statistics. Memos are usually from Yellen to President Clinton and can have subject lines such as “National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) National Report,” “Consumer Price Indexes for November, Labor Department Release,” and “January Housing Starts and Permits, Commerce Department Release.” The Staff and Office Files of Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles contain a memo from Janet Yellen offering direction and advice on the “President’s Economic Policy Priorities for Multi-Agency Action.” The files of Stacy Reynolds in the Counsel’s Office are comprised of articles by Yellen and newspaper stories about her. Much of the same material turns up in the papers of Mark Silverman of the National Economic Council (NEC). It is supplemented by a few records containing basic facts about the nomination of Yellen to head up the CEA. Email printed from the Automated Records Management System and the Tape Restoration Project in response to this request contain correspondence to and from Janet Yellen. Email to and from Yellen’s White House email account includes discussion of a wide variety of topics, including Product Liability, Kyoto (Climate Change), Federal Involvement in Retail Electricity Competition (FERC), Trade Liberalization, World Trade Organization (WTO) trade wars, the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis, the 1998 Japanese Financial Crisis, and Y2K preparations. Many responsive printed emails are related to the Economic Report of the President. The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Specifically, email related to the ERP includes multiple drafts and discussion related to editing decisions. Email from this collection also includes memos to the President in draft form. These memos often exist as attachments to responsive emails. Emailed correspondence comes from many accounts inside and outside the office of the Council of Economic Advisors. Some correspondents include Jeffrey Frankel, Lawrence Summers, Robert Lawrence, David Sandalow, Joseph Aldy, Nouriel Roubini, and Cheryl Sandberg. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement Records that were responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject Files, Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM Subject FilesCF, Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files, Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email], and Clinton Presidential Records: Tape Restoration Project. 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. Staff and Office files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their individual offices and document all levels of administration 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 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 CEA bucket contains email created or received by an individual with a Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) White House user account. ARMS emails are arranged by topic, there-under by bucket, and there-under chronologically by creation date. 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. TRP emails are arranged by topic, there-under by bucket, and there-under chronologically by creation date. FOIA 2013-0723-F includes WHORM records from these subject codes: [BE] [Business – Economics] [BE003] [Industry] [BE004] [National Economy] [BE004-01] [Cost of Living] [BE004-02] [Inflation] [BE004-03] [National Income – Product Data – GDP (Gross Domestic Product)] [CO001-03] [Asia] [FG001] [President of the United States] [FG006-12] [Council of Economic Advisors] [FG143] [Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors] [FI] [Finance] [FI004] [Budget – Appropriations] [FI007] [Interest Rates] [HS] [Housing] [IT071] [Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development] [LA002] [Conditions – Employment – Unemployment] [LA006] [Wages – Hours] [SP220-99] [Economic Report of the President for 1999] [TA] [Trade] [TA003] [Exports] 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, 2014. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released Last Modified Date 2016-03-28 Container List The following is a list of documents and folders in response to 2013-0723-F: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File Category Case Number BE 203496SS 207544SS 208788SS 209849SS 210749SS 214172SS 215016SS 216991SS 218738SS 220477SS 221556SS 222674SS 223635SS 224676SS 225279SS 226079SS 227165SS 228079SS 229470SS 230490SS 233163SS 234480SS 235470SS 236528SS 237508SS 238197SS 238894SS 239831SS 240616SS 241811SS 242424SS 243824SS 244876SS 245679SS 246518SS 248094SS 249182SS Box 2 Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File (continued) Category Case Number BE 250004SS 251989SS 252807SS 253680SS 254551SS 255445SS 256218SS 257142SS 258002SS 258876SS 259676SS 260382SS 261088SS 261966SS 263797SS 264682SS 266436SS 268061SS 269634SS 270350SS 271006SS 271837SS 272744SS 273676SS 277020SS 277497SS 278290SS 279008SS 281554SS 287894SS 291865SS 292859SS 293738SS 294563SS 295313SS 296127SS Box 3 Category Case Number BE 301444SS 302270SS 303748SS 305418SS 306112SS 306629SS 307460SS Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File (continued) Category Case Number 309040SS 310404SS 311083SS 311899SS BE003 229440SS 244064SS 265557SS 303071SS BE004 228580SS 267586SS 272170SS 284605SS 284788SS 291341SS 294832SS BE004-01 245989SS 249580SS 251037SS 253280SS 267584SS 278170SS 294264SS 296717SS BE004-02 210921SS BE004-03 229166SS 233906SS 268813SS 280648SS 283047SS 284275SS 296320SS 296454SS 296550SS 312406SS CO001-03 239791SS FG001 218689SS FG006-12 314754 FG143 205983 207360SS 227824SS FI 218454SS FI004 280964SS FI007 244063SS 265554SS 274585SS 280965SS 284783SS 296135SS Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File (continued) Category Case Number 296840SS 304756SS HS 245988SS 253279SS 267585SS IT071 213674SS LA002 228582SS 229441SS 233589SS 237354SS 276959SS 306569SS LA006 224083SS 236688SS Box 4 Category Case Number SP220-99 299045SS [1] 299045SS [2] TA 253427SS 256078SS TA003 278169SS Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File CF Category Case Number BE 211785SS 213024SS 217847SS 219524SS 230490SS 265737SS 267240SS 279999SS 280875SS 282241SS BE 283062SS 284043SS 284648SS 285339SS 286582SS 287346SS 290399SS 297484SS 298305SS 299363SS 300288SS 303478SS 304621SS Box 5 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Chief of Staff Bowles, Erskine Janet Yellen [OA/ID 12286] Counsel’s Office Reynolds, Stacy Yellen, Janet [1] [OA/ID 9722] Yellen, Janet [2] [OA/ID 9722] Yellen, Janet [3] [OA/ID 9722] National Economic Council Silverman, Mark CEA [Council of Economic Advisors] – Janet Yellen [1] [OA/ID 11816] CEA [Council of Economic Advisors] – Janet Yellen [2] [OA/ID 11816] CEA [Council of Economic Advisors] – Janet Yellen [3] [OA/ID 11816] Sperling, Gene Yellen, Janet [OA/ID 19189] Presidential Personnel General Files Folder #1 [Janet Yellen] [OA/ID 10384] Yellen, Janet [OA/ID 19617] Yellen, Janet [OA/ID 21568] McMahan, Natasha Folder #9 [Janet L. Yellen] [OA/ID 19886] Box 6 Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [02/18/1997 – 04/02/1997] [04/03/1997 – 06/12/1997] [06/12/1997 – 07/13/1997] [07/13/1997 – 08/09/1997] [08/12/1997 – 09/16/1997] [09/16/1997 – 09/23/1997] Box 7 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [09/23/1997 – 10/01/1997] [10/01/1997 – 10/03/1997] [10/04/1997 – 10/21/1997] [10/21/1997 – 11/14/1997] [11/15/1997 – 12/03/1997] [12/03/1997 – 01/02/1998] Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] (continued) Box 8 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [01/02/1998 – 01/21/1998] [01/21/1998 – 02/01/1998] [02/01/1998 – 02/05/1998] [02/05/1998] [02/05/1998 – 02/09/1998] [02/09/1998 – 02/13/1998] Box 9 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [02/13/1998 – 02/23/1998] [02/23/1998 – 02/27/1998] [02/27/1998 – 03/12/1998] [03/12/1998 – 04/16/1998] [04/16/1998 – 05/14/1998] Box 10 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [05/15/1998 – 05/28/1998] [05/28/1998 – 06/09/1998] [06/09/1998 – 06/19/1998] [06/19/1998 – 07/21/1998] [07/21/1998 – 07/30/1998] [07/30/1998 – 08/21/1998] Box 11 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [08/21/1998 – 09/04/1998] [09/04/1998 – 09/09/1998] [09/09/1998 – 09/16/1998] [09/16/1998 – 09/23/1998] [09/23/1998 – 10/04/1998] [10/04/1998 – 10/05/1998] [10/06/1998 – 10/15/1998] Box 12 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] (continued) [10/16/1998 – 10/28/1998] [10/28/1998 – 11/24/1998] [11/24/1998 – 12/14/1998] [12/14/1998 – 12/30/1998] [12/30/1998] [12/30/1998 – 12/31/1998] [01/04/1999] [1] Box 13 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [01/04/1999] [2] [01/05/1999 – 01/11/1999] [01/11/1999] [01/11/1999 – 01/12/1999] [01/12/1999 – 01/15/1999] [01/15/1999 – 01/21/1999] Box 14 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [01/21/1999 – 01/26/1999] [01/27/1999 – 02/02/1999] [02/02/1999 – 02/15/1999] [02/15/1999 – 02/26/1999] [02/26/1999 – 03/11/1999] [03/11/1999 – 04/01/1999] Box 15 CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [04/02/1999 – 05/05/1999] [05/11/1999 – 06/02/1999] [06/03/1999 – 07/29/1999] Clinton Presidential Records: Tape Restoration Project [Email] CEA [OA/ID 950000] [Yellen] [07/22/1997 – 01/08/1999]