(2020-0558-F) Vice President Gore’s Weekly Meetings with President Clinton from 1993-2001

6 folders, approximately 24 pages

This collection consists of records related to Vice President Gore’s lunch meetings with President Clinton. Topics mentioned in the responsive records include the planning of meetings and events concerning the budget, education, environment, and other domestic policy. This collection contains memoranda and emails.

The materials in FOIA 2020-0558-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related material. Materials responsive to this FOIA request include memoranda and emails regarding Vice President Gore’s lunch meetings with President Clinton. Topics mentioned in the responsive records include the planning of meetings and events concerning the budget, education, environment, and other domestic policy.

Electronic Records

Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton Presidential Records: White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject Files, Clinton Presidential Records: ARMS Emails, and Clinton Presidential Records: TRP Emails. The White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) contains a variety of series created to organize and track documents and correspondence. The WHORM Alpha file was compiled by the White House Office of Records Management from 1993 – 1996 and is a series of documents arranged by name of persons, organizations, or events. 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 The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) was a database that contained email records of the Executive Office of the President. This system held, and allowed access to, unclassified Presidential email. The ARMS database was comprised of seven sub-series of email records called "buckets." The buckets generally represented a specific White House office. The buckets were titled: NPR for National Performance Review, NSC for National Security Council, 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 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 email are arranged by topic, there-under by bucket, and there-under chronologically by creation date. FOIA 2020-0558-F includes WHORM records from these subject codes: FI004 Budget – Appropriations.

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 2020-0558-F:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: WHORM: Subject File
Category Case Number
FI004 119948SS
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
Default [OA/ID 1100000]
[From: Albert Gore, lunch…]
[01/26/1995 – 06/07/1995]
OPD [OA/ID 250000]
[To: Albert Gore, lunch…]
[12/07/1994]
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email] (cont.)
WHO [OA/ID 500000]
[To: Albert Gore, lunch…]
[06/21/1996 – 07/10/1997]
Default [OA/ID 1100000]
[To: Albert Gore, lunch…]
[05/16/1995]
Clinton Presidential Records: Tape Restoration Project (TRP) [Email]
WHO [OA/ID 500000]
[From: Albert Gore, lunch…]
[04/16/1997]