Expand All Collapse All Extent 203 folders, approximately 13,378 pages Summary This collection consists of the records of June Shih, Special Assistant to President Clinton and Presidential Speechwriter from 1998 – 2000. The files contain faxes, memorandums, speech drafts, correspondence, reports, and news clippings covering topics relating to child care, diabetes, education, human rights, race relations, health care and the economy. Ms. Shih also participated in drafting two of the State of the Union Addresses. Scope and Content Note June Shih was Special Assistant to President Clinton and a Presidential Speechwriter from 1998- 2000. She wrote speeches for President Clinton which included topics on race relations, education, health care, child care, and the economy. Ms. Shih also participated in drafting two of the State of the Union Addresses and she was also a member of the President's delegation to China in1998. Before working as a speechwriting for the President June was a speechwriter for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton from 1995 to 1997. She assisted the First Lady with weekly columns, wrote speeches, talking points, and handled video scripts. In 2000 she became chief speechwriter for Hillary Clinton’s senatorial campaign Ms. Shih graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and while at Harvard in the early 90’s she wrote for “The Harvard Crimson”. Her career after leaving the White House includes law clerk, associate in a law firm, senior associate in a law firm and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State. The June Shih collection includes faxes, memorandums, speeches, speech drafts, correspondence, news clippings, reports, and talking points. The collection covers topics relating to child care, diabetes, commencement addresses, education, human rights, Medicare, race relations, radio addresses, drug free schools, Native Americans, tobacco, welfare to work, and women’s careers. Record Type Textual System of Arrangement The folders are arranged alphabetically by topic. 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 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 Archives Specialist, 2015. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released. Container List The following is a list of folders processed: Box 1 Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files Speechwriting Shih, June Afghanistan 3/3/99 Taliban [OA/ID 16420] After School Care 1/26/98 [OA/ID 16417] Akron Town Hall on Race 12/3/97 [OA/ID 16417] AmeriCorps Call to Service 2/10/99 [1] [OA/ID 16420] AmeriCorps Call to Service 2/10/99 [2] [OA/ID 16420] AmeriCorps 100,000 10/23/98 [1] [OA/ID 16419] AmeriCorps 100,000 10/23/98 [2] [OA/ID 16419] AmeriCorps 100,000 10/23/98 [3] [OA/ID 16419] Apuzzo [Virginia] [OA/ID 16419] Arts & Humanities Medals 11/5/98 [1] [OA/ID 16420] Arts & Humanities Medals 11/5/98 [2] [OA/ID 16420] Box 2 Arts & Humanities Medals 11/5/98 [3] [OA/ID 16420] [Asia Trip] [OA/ID 16419] Austin Airport 4/21/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Austin Airport 4/21/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Austin Airport 4/21/99 [3] [OA/ID 16421] Bill Lee Amendment 12/15/97 [OA/ID 16417] Bill Lee Amendment 12/15/97: Bill Lee [OA/ID 16417] Budget Departure 7/29/99 [OA/ID 16421] Census 6/2/98 [OA/ID 16418] Chicago - Prescription Drugs 6/30/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Chicago - Prescription Drugs 6/30/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Box 3 Chicago School Construction 4/8/98 [OA/ID 16418] Child Care Announcement 1/7/98 [OA/ID 16417] Child Care Conference 10/23/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Child Care Conference 10/23/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Child Care Conference 10/23/97 [3] [OA/ID 16416] Child Care CT [Connecticut] 3/10/98 [1] [OA/ID 16417] Child Care CT [Connecticut] 3/10/98 [2] [OA/ID 16417] Children's Health 2/18/98 [OA/ID 16417] Christmas Messages [OA/ID 16417] Colorado SAFE Kids 7/15/99 [OA/ID 16421] Congressional Gold Medal 6/15/99 [OA/ID 16421] Box 4 Dale Bumpers 12/8/98 [OA/ID 16420] Diabetes Announcement 8/8/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Diabetes Announcement 8/8/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Disability Event 6/4/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Disability Event 6/4/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] DNC Reception - 9/24/98 [1] [OA/ID 16419] DNC Reception - 9/24/98 [2] [OA/ID 16419] Drugs 1/12/98 [OA/ID 16417] Drunk Driving Radio [Address] 12/26/98 [OA/ID 16420] Drunk Driving Remarks [OA/ID 16419] Box 5 Dutko Eulogy 8/2/99 [OA/ID 16421] Education International 7/29/98 [1] [IOA/ID 16419] Education International 7/29/98 [2] [IOA/ID 16419] Education Statement/Tobacco - Daschle/Gephardt 4/2/98 [IOA/ID 16418] Elder Fraud [OA/ID 16419] Equal Pay 4/7/99 [OA/ID 16421] ESPN - Sports & Race 4/14/98 [1] [IOA/ID 16418] ESPN - Sports & Race 4/14/98 [2] [IOA/ID 16418] Faith - Based Crime Prevention 7/22/98 [IOA/ID 16419] FDA [Food and Drug Administration] Bill Signing 11/21/97 [1] [IOA/ID 16417] FDA [Food and Drug Administration] Bill Signing 11/21/97 [2] [IOA/ID 16417] Box 6 [Federal Emergency Management] [OA/ID 16420] Flag 7/13/98 [OA/ID 16419] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Florence Griffith Joyner 9/21/98 [OA/ID 16419] Food Safety 10/2/97 [OA/ID 16416] Four Seasons Elementary Standards 9/8/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Four Seasons Elementary Standards 9/8/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] G-22 10/5/98 [OA/ID 16419] Gene Autry 10/2/98 [OA/ID 16419] Girls Nation 7/17/98 [OA/ID 16419] Grambling 5/23/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Grambling 5/23/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Grambling 5/23/99 [3] [OA/ID 16421] Box 7 Grambling 5/23/99 [4] [OA/ID 16421] Grambling Commencement 5/23/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Grambling Commencement 5/23/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Grambling Commencement 5/23/99 [3] [OA/ID 16421] Guam 11/23/98 [1] [OA/ID 16420] Guam 11/23/98 [2] [OA/ID 16420] Guns/Brady's Radio [Address] 12/5/98 [OA/ID 16420] Hawking Millennium 3/6/98 [OA/ID 16417] Hong Kong 7/3/98 [1] [OA/ID 16419] Hong Kong 7/3/98 [2] [OA/ID 16419] Hong Kong 7/3/98 [3] [OA/ID 16419] Box 8 Human Rights Campaign 11/8/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Human Rights Campaign 11/8/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Human Rights Campaign 11/8/97 [3] [OA/ID 16416] Human Rights Campaign 11/8/97 [4] [OA/ID 16416] Immunization 7/23/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Immunization 7/23/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] India-Pak [Pakistan] Tests [OA/ID 16419] Indonesia [OA/ID 16419] Johnson Space Center 4/14/98 [OA/ID 16418] Kennedy Center Honors 12/7/97 [OA/ID 16417] Korean Peninsula [OA/ID 16419] Labor - HHS [Health & Human Services] - Education Bill Signing 11/13/97 [OA/ID 16417] Lawton Chiles 1/28/99 [1] [OA/ID 16420] Lawton Chiles 1/28/99 [2] [OA/ID 16420] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Box 9 Lawyers Call to Action 7/20/99 [OA/ID 16421] LIHEAP [Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program] 8/14/98 [OA/ID 16419] Little Rock [Central High 40th Anniversary] 9/25/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Little Rock [Central High 40th Anniversary] 9/25/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Mayor's Breakfast 1/30/98 [1] [OA/ID 16417] Mayor's Breakfast 1/30/98 [2] [OA/ID 16417] Mayor's Conference on Education 5/7/98 [OA/ID 16418] Medicare 3/18/99 [OA/ID 16420] Medicare/HMO [Health Maintenance Organization] 10/8/98 [OA/ID 16419] Medicare Radio [Address] 7/9/99 [OA/ID 16421] Microenterprise 2/5/99 [OA/ID 16420] Millennium Evening - Women in the 20th Century 3/15/99 [OA/ID 16420] Box 10 [Miscellaneous China Research] [OA/ID 16419] MLK [Martin Luther King] Jr. [OA/ID 16420] Mortgage Bankers 3/2/98 [1] [OA/ID 16417 Mortgage Bankers 3/2/98 [2] [OA/ID 16417] [Musical Performances in the East Room] [OA/ID 16416] NABJ [National Association of Black Journalists] Convention 7/17/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] NABJ [National Association of Black Journalists] Convention 7/17/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] NACo [National Association of Counties] 2/2/98 [OA/ID 16417] National Standards of Education [OA/ID 16420] National Teacher of the Year 4/24/98 [OA/ID 16418] New Psalmist Baptist Church 11/1/98 [OA/ID 16420] [News Clips for July 1998] [OA/ID 16419] Box 11 NGA [National Governors Association] Roundtable 2/23/98 [OA/ID 16417] NIH [National Institute of Health] - Bumpers 6/9/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] NIH [National Institute of Health] - Bumpers 6/9/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Norristown 1/20/99 [OA/ID 16420] Passenger's Bill of Rights 3/5/99 [OA/ID 16420] Patient's Bill of Rights 5/28/98 [OA/ID 16418] Pew Social Security Satellite 3/21/98 [OA/ID 16418] Portland State 6/13/98 [1] [OA/ID 16418] Portland State 6/13/98 [2] [OA/ID 16418] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) Box 12 Portland State 6/13/98 [3] [OA/ID 16418] Portland State 6/13/98 [4] [OA/ID 16418] Portland State 6/13/98 [5] [OA/ID 16418] Portland State - Miscellaneous [1] [OA/ID 16418] Portland State - Miscellaneous [2] [OA/ID 16418] Portraits in Change [OA/ID 16417] Prayer Breakfast 2/5/98 [1] [OA/ID 16417] Prayer Breakfast 2/5/98 [2] [OA/ID 16417] Pritzker Prize 6/17/98 [1] [OA/ID 16418] Pritzker Prize 6/17/98 [2] [OA/ID 16418] Box 13 Race Advisory Board 9/30/97 [OA/ID 16416] Race Initiative 9/18/98 [1] [OA/ID 16419] Race Initiative 9/18/98 [2] [OA/ID 16419] Radio [Address] 1/9/98 [1] [OA/ID 16420] Radio [Address] 1/9/98 [2] [OA/ID 16419] Radio Address 2/13/98 [OA/ID 16417] Radio Address 3/20/99 [OA/ID 16420] Radio Address Dugs & Kids 12/20/97 [OA/ID 16417] Radio Address (Education) 10/17/97 [OA/ID 16416] Radio Address - Gorton/Goodling 9/18/97 [OA/ID 16416] Radio Address - IMF [International Monetary Fund] 10/18/98 [OA/ID 16419] Radio Address Med [Medicare] Fraud 12/13/97 [OA/ID 16417] Radio Address on Social Security 3/21/98 [OA/ID 16418] Box 14 Radio Address Standards 8/29/97 [OA/ID 16416] Radio: Child Safety Seats 2/27/99 [OA/ID 16420] Religious Leaders 11/20/97 [OA/ID 16417] [Remarks at Ceremony Marking the Return of the Remains of Americans Who Lost Their Lives in Kenya] [OA/ID 16419] [Renewing the Federal Government - University Research Partnership] [OA/ID 16421] Ron Brown Award 2/11/98 [OA/ID 16417] Ron Brown Awards 3/24/99 [1] [OA/ID 16421] Ron Brown Awards 3/24/99 [2] [OA/ID 16421] Safe & Drug Free Schools 5/7/99 [OA/ID 16421] Saver Summit 6/4/98 [OA/ID 16418] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) School Modernization 9/8/98 [OA/ID 16419] [School Safety Grants 4/23/99] [OA/ID 16421] Box 15 SEIU [Service Employees International Union] September 15, 1997 [1] [OA/ID 16416] SEIU [Service Employees International Union] September 15, 1997 [2] [OA/ID 16416] [Senator Dale and Betty Bumpers] [OA/ID 16418] Social Promotion - Chicago 10/28/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Social Promotion - Chicago 10/28/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Sons of Italy 5/22/99 [OA/ID 16421] Space Medals 12/17/97 [OA/ID 16417] Speech to Native Americans, Aug. 8, 1998 [1] [OA/ID 16419] Speech to Native Americans, Aug. 8, 1998 [2] [OA/ID 16419] Speech to Native Americans, Aug. 8, 1998 [3] [OA/ID 16419] Speech to Native Americans, Aug. 8, 1998 [4] [OA/ID 16419] State of the Union [1] [OA/ID 16420] State of the Union [2] [OA/ID 16420] State of the Union 1/27/98 [OA/ID 16417] Statement - Littleton 4/23/99 [OA/ID 16421] Statement on Vouchers 9/30/97 [OA/ID 16416] Statement PBO [Patients' Bill of Rights]/2 12/2/98 [OA/ID 16420] Box 16 Surgeon General /Tobacco 4/27/98 [OA/ID 16418] Surplus 9/30/98 [OA/ID 16420] Surplus '99 1/6/99 [OA ID 16420] Terry Sanford/Erskine 4/21/98 [OA/ID 16418] Therma Visit 5/1/98 [OA/ID 16418] Thurgood Marshall 2/3/99 [OA/ID 16420] TIMSS [Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study] Roundtable/Springbook High School 3/16/98 [OA/ID 16417] Tobacco - Free Kids 5/20/98 [OA/ID 16418] Transportation Statement 5/24/98 [OA/ID 16418] Tribute to Joseph Lowery 7/25/97 (Video) [OA/ID 16416] United Way - Video Script 8/7/97 [OA/ID 16416] Urban League 8/4/97 [1] [OA/ID 16416] Urban League 8/4/97 [2] [OA/ID 16416] Box 17 Urban League 8/4/97 [3] [OA/ID 16416] U.S. Conference of Mayors 6/19/98 [Folder 1] [OA/ID 16418] Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files (continued) U.S. Conference of Mayors 6/19/98 [Folder 2] [1] [OA/ID 16418] U.S. Conference of Mayors 6/19/98 [Folder 2] [2] [OA/ID 16418] U.S. Conference of Mayors 6/19/98 [Folder 2] [3] [OA/ID 16418] Wall Street Project 1/15/98 [1] [OA/ID 16417] Wall Street Project 1/15/98 [2] [OA/ID 16417] Wall Street Project 1/15/99 [1] [OA/ID 16420] Wall Street Project 1/15/99 [2] [OA/ID 16420] Box 18 Welfare to Work 8/3/99 [OA/ID 16421] Wiesenthal Center Video 9/15/98 [OA/ID 16419] Women & Medicare 7/27/99 [OA/ID 16421] Women in Space 3/5/98 [OA/ID 16417] Women in Sports 3/4/99 [OA/ID 16420]