Finding Aids

Finding aids describe archival collections to help users navigate their contents and identify material relevant to their research. Finding aids provide a summary of a collection, the system of arrangement of the responsive material, a container list of responsive files, and a link to the related digitized records (if available).

Researchers may use the "Search Box" below to search by keyword or collection number (ex. 2016-0738-F). Researchers may narrow their search results by filtering by finding aid type, record type, or tag. Researchers may also select for "Digitized Content" to view only collections that have been digitized.

President Clinton stands, looking at a brown shelf full of books. President Clinton wears a green jacket.
President Clinton carefully examines the books at Bickerton & Ripley Bookstore in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, September 3, 1994. Photographer: Barbara Kinney
President Clinton carefully examines the books at Bickerton & Ripley Bookstore in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, September 3, 1994. Photographer: Barbara Kinney
About finding aid types

Finding Aid Types

Finding aid types include Freedom of Information Act Collections, Systematically Processed Collections, and Mandatory Declassification Review Collections.

Freedom of Information Act Collections provide a summary of a collection requested under the Freedom of Information Act, biographic information concerning the collection, the system of arrangement of the responsive material, a container list of responsive files, and a link to the related digitized records (if available).

Systematically Processed Collections provide a summary of a collection processed systematically, biographic information concerning the collection, the system of arrangement of the responsive material, a container list of files, and a link to the related digitized records (if available).

Mandatory Declassification Review Collections provide a summary of a collection released via a Mandatory Declassification Review, and an Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) of the declassified records.

About collection description tags

Collection Description Tags

A Tag is a descriptive term attached to a finding aid to establish relationships between collection descriptions. Multiple tags can be used to describe collections.

TagUse For
AIDS (Disease)Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and/or the treatment of HIV infections. Finding aids also describe policy concerning individuals, groups, or countries seeking treatment or subsidies for AIDs and HIV.
AmbassadorsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with individuals who served the United States as an Ambassador to another country,
Armed ForcesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the Military, or Armed Services. This means any Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the Wars in Kosovo and Bosnia. (Ex: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, sending troops to Haiti in 1994, etc.)
Associations, institutions, etc.Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Networks (Associations, institutions, etc.), Organizations, Voluntary associations, or Voluntary organizations.
Award presentationsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Award ceremonies, Awards ceremonies, or Awards presentations. (Examples: Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kennedy Center Awards, Volunteer Service, National Service, Military Awards.)
CelebritiesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with: Famous people; Famous persons; Illustrious people; or Well-known people.
Civil rightsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Basic rights; Civil liberties; Civil rights--Law and legislation; Civil rights--Legal status, laws, etc.; Constitutional rights; Human rights or Fundamental rights.
CrimeFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with: City crime; Crime and criminals; Crime--Social aspects; Crimes; Delinquency; Felonies; Misdemeanors; Urban crime, or International Crime.
Dinners and diningFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with State Dinners, dinners and receptions held on behalf of other countries, the Prayer Breakfast, Fundraising dinners, or private dinners.
Donated CollectionUsed only for systematically processed collections that were donated collections to the Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Economic policyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with domestic or U.S. Economic policy. Used for: Economic nationalism, Economic planning, Economic policy--Political aspects, National planning, State planning.
EducationFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Education.
Emigration and immigrationFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with immigrants, illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, or immigration policies.
Environmental policyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Environment and state Environmental control; Environmental management--Government policy; Environmental policy--Law and legislation; Environmental policy--Political aspects; Environmental protection--Government policy; Environmental quality--Government policy; or State and environment.
Executive advisory bodiesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Presidential Commissions, Presidential Advisory Boards, Commissions of the federal government, or Government advisory boards.
Executive clemencyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the power to grant relief from criminal punishment, encompassing pardons (forgiveness of offense), commutations (reduced sentences), reprieves (postponement of sentence), and amnesty (broad forgiveness).
Executive ordersFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Executive orders.
First LadyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the initiatives or activities of First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Finding aid descriptions of collections concernining the staff of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton or the Office of the First Lady.
Gay rightsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Gay and lesbian rights; Gay men--Civil rights; Gay people--Civil rights; Lesbian rights; Lesbians--Civil rights; Rights of gay people; or Rights of lesbians. Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Gay Marriage, DOMA, etc.
Government agenciesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with any Executive agencies, Government agencies, Regulatory agencies. This term can be used broadly to describe the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Presidential Cabinet Offices (Defense, Education, State), Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe, etc.
Heads of StateFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with foreign Heads of State, heads of government, or rulers (Example, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings, etc.)
Health care reform Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Health reform; Health system reform; Healthcare reform; Medical care reform; Reform of health care delivery; or Reform of medical care delivery.
HolidaysFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Legal holidays or National holidays (St. Patricks Day, Christmas, Easter, MLK day, etc)
Housing policyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Housing policy and Government subsidies for housing. Also descriptions of collections having to do with homelessness or the un-housed.
International economic relationsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with international economic planning or policy
International relationsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Foreign affairs, Foreign policy, Foreign relations, Global governance, Interdependence of nations, International affairs, Peaceful coexistence, or World order.
Judges--Selection and AppointmentFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with selection or appointment of judges (supreme court or circuit)
LawFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Legislative Acts; Legislative Enactments; or Law--Regions; Laws (Statutes).
Law enforcementFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with policing or the enforcement of laws. (Example: ATF, DEA, and FBI actions; like WACO, Branch Dividians, Elian Gonzalez, Ruby Ridge, etc.) Finding aid descriptions concerning the Department of Justice and the Attorney General.
MeetingsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with meetings at the White House, White House Conferences, or other conferences hosted by other associations.
Military basesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with military bases, military forts, or military facilities.
Military operationsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Military Operations, Peacekeeping Operations, or Rescue Operations.
Millennium Celebrations (2000)Finding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Millennium celebrations (2000), 2000 A.D., celebrations, or Year 2000 celebrations. (This includes White House Millenium Events in 1999).
People with disabilitiesFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with people with disabilities, Americans with Disabilities, Americans with Disabilities Act, or Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Political campaignsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with: Election Campaigns, Electioneering, Electoral politics, or Negative campaigns (example: President Clinton's 1996 election campaign, 2000 Gore campaign, Contested campaign results, Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1998 Senatorial Campaign).
PoliticiansFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Statesmen like: Senators, Representatives, Governors, Mayors, or any other U.S. elected official.
Presidents--StaffFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with a member of White House Staff. This descriptive tag also applies to the President's Cabinet Secretaries (and Cabinet Secretary Deputies and Assistants).
Public welfareFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Welfare (Public assistance) or Welfare reform; Benevolent institutions; Poor relief; Public assistance; Public charities; Public relief; Public welfare--Government policy; Public welfare reform; Relief (Aid); or Social welfare.
ReligionsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do anything related to religion. These topices include religious denominations, world religions, religious leaders, or spiritual advisors.
Scandals--Political aspectsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with a political controversy or scandal that affected the Clinton Administration (Whitewater, Filegate, Keneth Starr Investigations, etc.)
SpeechwritersFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Individuals that are part of the President's speechwriting team who write, edit, research and fact check every speech. The speechwriting team varies in size and scope, depending on the preferences of the president.
SportsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Sports, Athletes, Athletic events (Example: Olympic Games). This finding aid tag also describes collections concerning President Clinton's involvement in sporting events (example: playing golf, throwing out the first pitch, attending a basketball game, etc).
TechnologyFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with the field of Science and Technology, satellites, computers, information systems, telecommunications, etc. 
TerrorismFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with foreign or domestic Terrorists; Acts of terrorism; Attacks, Terrorist; Global terrorism; International terrorism; Political terrorism; Terror attacks; Terrorist acts; Terrorist attacks; or World terrorism.
Voyages and travelsFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Presidential Trips and Travel. These finding aids could also be describing presidential vacations. (Examples: the Travel Office, Trip Books, Vacations to Martha's Vinyard, etc.)
WarFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with armed conflict or war. (Example: Wars in Kosovo, Bosnia, etc.)
Deputies Committee MeetingFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Deputies Committee Meetings
Principals Committee MeetingFinding aid descriptions of collections having to do with Principals Committee Meetings
Gubernatorial CollectionUsed only for systematically processed collections.
Federal RecordsUsed only for systematically processed collections.
About digitized content

Digitized Content

Researchers may select for "Digitized Content" to view only collections that have been digitized. If responsive files in a Freedom of Information Act Collection or Systematically Processed Collection have been digitized, a link to the digitized material is provided in the Container List.

All Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) Collections have been digitized. Digitized MDR Collections are provided as an Adobe Acrobat Document (.pdf) within the finding aid.


Search Finding Aids and MDRs

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Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records regarding the President and First Lady’s trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland from November 29, 1995 to December 2, 1995. It contains the advance planning materials for the trip, including delegation lists, briefing materials, press materials, and speech drafts.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection contains all correspondence between specific members of the Clinton Administration’s Domestic Policy Council -- Bruce Reed, Elena Kagan, Leon Panetta, Erskine Bowles, and John Podesta -- and specific members of the British government -- Alastair Campbell, David Miliband, Patricia Hewitt MP, Ed Balls, Gordon Brown MP, and Professor Anthony Giddens. The collections primarily contains emails between David Miliband and Bruce Reed. They are mostly conversational in tone, with some discussion concerning meetings amongst themselves and various counter-parts. The emails also includes brief mentions of welfare reform, livability, education policy and initiatives, and the G8 and NATO summits.
Mandatory Declassification Review Collection Textual
This Mandatory Declassification Review contains records related to the global AIDS crisis. Topics include expanding the role of the United States in combating the spread of AIDS, the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Asia, and the State Visit of South African President Thabo Mbeki on May 22, 2000. Also included are summaries of Deputies Committee meetings on the global AIDS crisis.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to the February 1995 visit of Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of South Africa. It contains briefing books, State Department cables, emails, and policy papers about the Gore-Mbeki commission.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of Clinton presidential records related to John F. Kennedy, Jr. Though the records date from 1993-1999, they majority of this collection revolves around the 1999 plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy; and her sister, Lauren Bessette. It contains hand-edited speech and statement drafts, head of state correspondence, press releases, emails, news articles, letters, correspondence, memoranda, and schedules.
Mandatory Declassification Review Collection Textual
This Mandatory Declassification Review contains the talking points for an August 1998 phone call between Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. The topic of discussion was U.S. military strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan.
Systematically Processed Collection Textual
This collection consists of files maintained by William “Bill” Kincaid, Associate Director for Education Policy on the Domestic Policy Council from 1997 to 2000. Prior to his service in the Clinton Administration, he worked for the Department of Education from 1995 to 1997. The collection consists of records related to charter schools and public school choice, reading and literacy initiatives, improving math and science education, urban and rural education initiatives, fixing failing schools, constructing, renovating, and modernizing schools, connecting schools to the Internet, training, recruiting, and retaining qualified teachers, and racial and ethnic diversity in schools and higher education. This collection also consists of records related to expanding access to higher education through community college initiatives, vocational education, Pell Grants, scholarships, tax credits, financial aid, work-study, and Federal Direct Loans. These materials include correspondence, memorandums, talking points, remarks, reports, publications, news articles, news releases, and handwritten notes.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to the work of the Office of Scheduling and Advance in preparing for President Clinton’s trip to Northern Ireland in September of 1998. The Office of Scheduling and Advance is responsible for the organization, planning, and execution of the President's schedules for all his meetings, trips and events. The office is also responsible for organizing and setting up activities for all national and international travel by the President and First Lady. The files contain annotated speeches, correspondence, memos, emails, schedules, lists and trip books.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to President Clinton’s “Executive Branch Public Financial Disclosure Reports” (SF-278) for the years 1993 through 1998. It contains information on the President’s financial assets, income, gifts, reimbursements and travel expenses, and includes memoranda, correspondence, and press clippings.
Mandatory Declassification Review Collection Textual
This Mandatory Declassification Review contains the memorandum of conversation (memcon) between President William J. Clinton and Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on July 13, 1995 regarding China.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Photographs
This collection contains photographs of Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates. The events photographed include a greeting during departure from the Seattle Art Museum on November 19th, 1993, a White House visit on May 25th, 1994, golf at Martha’s Vineyard on August 27th, 1994, a White House visit on July 27th, 1995, a visit to Shoreline Community College on February 24th, 1996, and the White House Conference on the New Economy on April 5th, 2000. The majority of these photographs are non-responsive to the topic and only a handful of images contain Bill Gates.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Photographs
This collection contains photographs of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs. Events photographed include the State Dinner for President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro of Italy on April 2, 1996, the State Dinner for President Jiang Zemin of China on October 29, 1997, and a photo-op in the White House on November 9, 1998. The majority of these photographs are non-responsive to the topic and only a handful of images contain Steve Jobs.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Photographs
This collection consists of photographs from the Clinton administration related to Prime Minister John Howard of Australia. Events include photos of Prime Minister Howard during President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s trip to Australia in 1996, Prime Minister Howard’s visit to the White House in 1997 and 1999, the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference in New Zealand in 1999, and the APEC Conference in Brunei in 2000.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records from the White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) files related to Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. William Henry (Bill) Gates III is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and philanthropist. He and his friend Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation. The files contain correspondence between President Clinton and Bill Gates. The correspondence covers topics such as, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), nation’s urban school systems, Gates Millennium Scholars, computer software piracy, Gate’s participation on the Global Divide panel and Gates Library Foundation. The files also contain copies of photographs of Bill Gates with President Clinton, magazine and press clippings, birth announcement cards, and a copy of the interview transcript by Ron Insana of CNBC regarding the Wall Street Diversity project.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records from the White House Staff and Office Files relating to Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. William Henry (Bill) Gates III is an entrepreneur, investor, author, and philanthropist. He and his friend Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation. The files contain correspondence memoranda, press releases, magazine and news articles, handwritten notes, remarks and statements. The records also contain copies of court materials regarding the United States v. Microsoft. The Department of Justice filed this antitrust suit against Microsoft alleging that the company attempted to monopolize the computer software market.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to correspondence between President Clinton and Mr. Steve Jobs, CEO and founder of Apple, Inc. The collection includes of various communications including unsolicited recommendations from Mr. Jobs for the new Surgeon-General, and for Secretary of Defense, Christmas greetings, thank-you notes, and an invitation for the President and the first family to attend a special screening of the animated film "A Bug's Life"."
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to President Clinton’s trip to Australia in November 1996, the President’s participation in the 1996 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit meeting in the Philippines and Prime Minister Howard’s visit to the United States in 1999. It contains memorandums, schedules, talking points, press releases, remarks, and speech transcripts
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection consists of records related to Australian Prime Minister John Howard. John W. Howard, a member of Australia’s Liberal Party, was elected March 2, 1996 as Prime Minister of Australia and served in that role until electoral defeat in November 2007. His four terms as Prime Minister represents the second longest service in that position in modern Australian history. In 2008, Howard was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) and in 2012 was awarded the Order of Merit (OM) by Queen Elizabeth II. The collection contains correspondence between President William J. Clinton and Prime Minister Howard. It also includes memoranda to the President from staff of the National Security Council as well as administrative correspondence tracking papers.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection is the second segment of a request for all records related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The period requested was for the first year of the Clinton administration. The collection dates from 1992 to 1994, reflecting both the way White House staff organized their records and archival processing. This collection is heavily withdrawn and very few records are available for release under current U.S. law. Open records include email.
Freedom of Information Act Collection Textual
This collection is the first segment of a request for all records related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The period requested was for the first year of the Clinton administration. The collection dates from 1992 to 1994, reflecting both the way White House staff organized their records and archival processing. This collection is heavily withdrawn and very few records are available for release under current U.S. law. Open records include memorandum, administrative forms, emails, cables, and correspondence.