Selected Resources for:
Presidency

HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library  

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/record=e1000131

Digitized collection of primary source materials on the U.S. presidency, including the

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Public Papers of the Presidents

Economic Reports of the President

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents

and full text publications on varied topics such as biographies, impeachment proceedings, and assassination reports.

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3 The President  

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/record=b1786735

This compilation has been issued in an annual volume since 1976 and includes Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders. See the U.S. Presidential Library collection in Hein Online for comprehensive online coverage.

Location: LAU Gov Docs Stx AE 2.106/3

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) from Hein  

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/record=e1000131

This collection has the complete set of published of volumes, from 1861 to the last printed volumes (recent volumes are digitized as they are received). Search by presidential administration, year, or country. Links to each country are in the table of contents. Selected volumes of the FRUS are available online: Foreign Relations of the United States from 1961 to the latest volume published are found on the State Department web site. Volumes published since 1961 have been digitized and are keyword searchable or by years of presidential administration. Select volumes of the FRUS from 1861-1960 have been digitized by the University of Wisconsin- Madison Library Digital Collections. More volumes will be scanned and added as they become available.

President's Papers Index Series  

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Library of Congress Manuscript Division began collecting presidential papers; they later issued a microfilm edition which includes the letters, notes, speeches and more for twenty-three U.S. Presidents, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. Each Presidential microfilm collection includes a print index, which serves as a subject guide to the material. To locate the paper index for the President you are researching, search the online catalog GEORGE under title: President's Papers Index Series. This will list all the index volumes, which are located in the Microforms Room. The GEORGE record will also show the microfilm number for the particular Presidential collection that is needed.

Presidential Documents Series  

This series includes microform documents for several 20th century Presidents, including Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Eisenhower. It provides material such as oral histories, minutes of Cabinet meetings, and Presidential messages. Search GEORGE by series title to see the full listing of these microform collections.

Location: [microform]. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America. LAU Microforms

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  

http://catalog.library.georgetown.edu/record=b1283202

This series is an official collection of bound papers, speeches, messages, E.O.s, proclamations, nominations and other materials of the U.S. Presidency. It includes presidential papers since the Hoover Administration in 1929. The volumes cover all Presidents except Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose papers were published privately, and thus they represent an historical record of each administration. Since 1977, they include material that appeared in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. The document arrangement within each volume is chronological, with indexing by subject, name and document category. Search GEORGE by title to produce the full display of call numbers, along with "year" designation.

Location: LAU Stacks J80.A283 (year)

American Presidency Project  

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

A broad collection of the most significant documents of the presidency. Search here for public papers, State of the Union addresses, inaugural addresses, press conferences, executive orders, proclamations, signing statements, debates, convention speeches, and much more.