The Executive Branch

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Historical Background
Presidents of the United States
IPL POTUS -- Presidents of the United States
The American Experience-The Presidents
The American Presidency Project NEW
PresidentS--Information Resources
Index of Presidents
Presidential Portraits at the Library of Congress
The Presidency
Presidential Clemency Actions By Administration Since 1945

General Information & Presidential Trivia
Echoes from the White House
The Artful Presidency: Selections from the Archives of American Art
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden--Objects from the Presidency
Tokens and Treasures: Presidential Gifts
Visits Abroad of the Presidents of the United States
Presidential Succession
The Order of Succession
How to Contact Living Former Presidents
Dead Presidents on Coins NEW
The Curse of the Presidents
Tecumseh's Curse On U.S. Presidents
Presidential and Vice-Presidential Mortality
Presidential Funerals
The State Funeral Commemoration
When the President is the Patient
Medical History of the Presidents
Genealogy of the U.S. Presidents
Presidents with Royal Ancestries
The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents
The Masonic Presidents
Presidential Salaries
The Tax History Project: Presidential Tax Returns
What Makes a Good President
Helen Thomas Rates the Presidents
The Skeleton Closet
Presidential Vital Statistics
USA History - Presidential Stats
Presidential Facts & Trivia
Who Knew? Presidential Trivia     NEW
Presidential Trivia, Interesting Facts, Physical Characteristics, and Habits
Freaky Secrets of the Presidency
Memorable Presidential Quotes
American Presidential Quotes: Quotes By Subject
The Chief Executive Club
The Private Lives of the American Presidents
Presidential Cartoons
Harper's Weekly Political Cartoons : Presidential Elections 1860 - 1912 NEW
Political Cartoons Illustrating Progressivism & The Election of 1912
JibJab
Political Cartoons
Presidents & Baseball
Origin of "Hail to the Chief"
The Woman Who Ran for President: Victoria Woodhull
John Hanson, The First President of the United States

The Law
United States Code
Code of Federal Regulations

U.S. Constitution: Article 2
USC Title 3: The President
USC Title 3 Section 19: The Law of Presidential Succession
USC Title 18 Chapter 84: Presidential & Presidential Staff Assassination, Kidnapping & Assault
The Tenure of Office Act of 1867
The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 - Public Law 106-293 UPDATED
Rules Governing Petitions for Executive Clemency
Case Law Dealing with Presidential Pardons and Clemency
Case Law Dealing with the Presidency

Presidential Powers
The Executive Branch: Powers of the Presidency
The Legal Definition of Presidential Powers
The War Powers Act of 1973
The Power of the Veto
Executive Orders & Laws Relating to National Emergencies
Presidential Powers In Times Of Emergency
Presidential Pardons: Legal Guidelines

The Executive Branch
Cabinet of the United States
USA.GOV: Federal Executive Branch
Executive Branch Research
The U. S. Cabinet
The Committee Management Secretariat
The United States Secret Service
U.S. Department of Justice: Office of the Pardon Attorney
The White House Communications Agency (WHCA)

Presidential Documents
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
Presidential Documents on NARA Web Sites
The White House Briefing Room
Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2009
List of Executive Orders: January 8, 1937 - December 30, 2006
Critical Infrastructure Protection White Paper (May 1999)
Presidential Directives & Where To Find Them   NEW
Homeland Security Presidential Directives    NEW
Presidential Appointee Initiative Issues Call to Service

Presidential Libraries, Landmarks & National Parks
Presidential Libraries
Presidential Libraries IDEA Network
The National Park Service Survey of Historic Presidential Sites & Buildings
The Old Executive Office Building
The Washington Monument
The Jefferson Memorial
The James Knox Polk State Memorial Historic Site
The Lincoln Memorial
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Mount Rushmore

Election 2008
Barack Obama & Joe Biden
John McCain & Sarah Palin
Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez
Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente
Project Smart Vote - 2008 Presidential Candidates
Federal Election Commission: Presidential Campaign Finance 2008
Fact Check.Org: The Annenberg Political Fact Checker
The Washington Post Fact Checker
The Documents Center at The University of Michigan: Elections 2008
NPR: Election 2008
CNN Politics
OpenSecrets.Org: Banking on Becoming President
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: Religion and Politics 2008

Presidential Campaign Information
Federal Election Commission
Federal Voting Assistance Program
Presidential Election Law & Other Issues
U.S. Electoral College (NARA)
History of Presidential Elections and the Electoral College
Primary Election
American National Election Studies UPDATED
The Ballot
How To Vote Absentee
Caucus
Spotlight Biography: Elections and Voting
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
Presidential Voting, 1844-1860 (By State)
Harper's Presidential Elections, 1860 - 1912
The Times Looks Back: Presidential Elections 1896 - 1996
Great Presidential Races
America Votes: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia
US Presidential Election Maps
The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD)

Presidential Debates
The Commission on Presidential Debates
Presidential Debates Bibliography
Exclusion from Presidential Debates
Debating Our Destiny
The Lincoln - Douglas Debates
The Nixon - Kennedy Debates

Presidential Inaugurations
Inaugurations: Memory-Pomp & Circumstance
Documentary Photographs of Presidential Inaugural
Oath of Office
I Do Solemnly Swear...
Presidential Inaugurations: A Historical Perspective
The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
Presidents Who Were Not Inaugurated
Who's Who & What's What Quiz
Inauguration 2001

Presidential Scandals
The Top Ten Presidential Scandals
Presidential Scandals & Job Approval
Political Scandal in Historical Perspective
John Adams - XYZ Affair 1797
XYZ Correspondence
Andrew Jackson & The Petticoat Affair
The Petticoat Affair: Scandalous Peggy Eaton Causes the Dismissal of a Cabinet
Scandals in Ulysses S. Grant's Presidency
Credit Mobilier
Credit Mobilier: The Testimony of C.P. Huntington, 1873
The Whiskey Ring Scandal of 1875
Probe Away: Thomas Nast Whiskey Ring Cartoon
The Election of 1884: The Grover Cleveland - Maria Halpin Affair
The Teapot Dome Scandal
The Senate Investigates the Teapot Dome Scandal
One Lesson From History: Appointment of Special Counsel & The Investigation of the Teapot Dome Scandal NEW
Washington Post--Watergate
Watergate
Reagan & The Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair 1983 - 1988 NEW
The Walsh Report: The Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran-Contra Matters, 1993
Whitewater
The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire

Presidential Impeachment Information
Rules of Procedure & Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials
Washington University Law: Impeachment--Selected Resources Online & In Print NEW
Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment
A Look at the Impeachment Process
Impeachment Documents Relating to U.S. Presidents
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson: Key Political Issues Affecting the Impeachment
Impeachment Trial of President Andrew Johnson
Impeachment: Richard Nixon
Miscellaneous Senate Publications Related to the Impeachment of President Clinton

Presidential Pardons & Clemency
Presidential Pardons: Legal Guidelines
Notable Presidential Pardons
Presidential Pardons FAQs
Clemency Statistics
Federal Executive Clemency in the United States, 1789 - 1995
Federal Executive Clemency in the United States, 1934-1994: an Empirical Analysis
Inside Lincoln's Clemency Decision Making

20th Century U.S. Presidents
William McKinley
William McKinley
Ohio Governors: William McKinley
The Presidency of William McKinley: The Idol of Ohio & Five Successful Years in Office
William McKinley & Mark Hanna    UPDATED
The Era of William McKinley   UPDATED
Open Door Note, 1899
Emergence to World Power, 1898-1902
Library of Congress-- The Spanish American War
The Press and Spanish-American Relations in 1898
Platt Amendment, 1903

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
The American Experience: TR
Theodore Roosevelt - The Rough Riders
The Roosevelts Move Into the White House, 1901
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904
On Safari With Theodore Roosevelt, 1909
Teddy Bear
The Panama Canal History
Theodore Roosevelt & New Nationalism, 1912
Theodore Roosevelt: The Threat of Japan
Theodore Roosevelt's Speeches, Addresses and Messages
1906 Nobel Peace Prize - Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
Guide to William Howard Taft
William H. Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft: Product of Ohio
William Howard Taft Inaugural Address 1909
Vincent Voice Library: William Howard Taft Talks About The Abolishment of War Throughout The World
William Howard Taft & Dollar Diplomacy
Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft
Taft House: William Howard Taft National Historic Site

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson at Princeton
World War I: President Woodrow Wilson's War
Woodrow Wilson: Peace Without Victory
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
Fourteen Points, 1918
President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
The Covenant of the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson: 1919 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Warren Gamaliel Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Harding
Warren Harding & United States Secret Service
The Teapot Dome Scandal
The Senate Investigates the Teapot Dome Scandal
One Lesson From History: Appointment of Special Counsel & The Investigation of the Teapot Dome Scandal NEW
Warren G. Harding: Product of Ohio
The Presidential Election of 1920
1920 Presidential Campaign Slogans

Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
The American Experience: Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, "Intervention in Nicaragua"
The Price of the Presidency
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy
President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site

Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover Quotes
Herbert Hoover Presidential Cartoons
Herbert Hoover Basics
Herbert Hoover's Rugged Individualism Speech, October 22, 1928
Herbert Hoover: Iowa Farm Boy & Humanitarian
Hoover - The Fishing President
Herbert Hoover's Letter to Truman Regarding the Food Shortage in Europe

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Person of the Century: Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR & The Supreme Court Cartoon Collection NEW
FDR's Fireside Chat on Reorganization of the Judiciary March 9, 1937
Roosevelt & The New Deal
The Reluctant Belligerent
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech, October 5, 1937
The Lend Lease Act
Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms
Roosevelt: The War Years

Harry S. Truman
Harry Truman
Truman Tells Stalin About the Atomic Bomb, July 24, 1945
The Atomic Bomb
The Charter of The United Nations
The Marshall Plan .
The Truman Doctrine
1948 Truman - Dewey Election
Harry Truman at Project Whistle-stop
Truman's Executive Order 9981

Dwight David Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Main Events of the Eisenhower Presidency    UPDATED
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex Speech
Examining the Korean War
Guatemala '54
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kennedy
Time Magazine 1961 Man of the Year: John F. Kennedy
JFK Main
JFK Photo History
Kennedy's Speeches
The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
JFK Executive Orders
JFK Assassination Web Sites
The Warren Commission Report
Kennedy & The New Frontier
The Peace Corps
Kennedy and the Cold War
Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges
Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
Documents Relating to the Bay of Pigs Invasion & the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Kennedy's Berlin Speech: June 25, 1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Time Magazine 1964 Man of the Year: Lyndon B. Johnson
Time Magazine 1967 Man of the Year: Lyndon B. Johnson
LBJ in the Oval Office
LBJ's The War on Poverty, March 1964
Selected Speeches of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson - State of the Union 1968
Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas:Vietnam Policy 1965-69
30-Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War
Vietnam War Internet Resources
The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Richard Milhous Nixon
Richard Nixon
Nixon Presidential Materials Project
The Framing of Alger Hiss
The Nixon-Presley Meeting
Nixon's China Game
Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai
Record of Historic Richard Nixon-Zhou Enlai Talks
Nixon Library Sound Recordings Collection
The Nixon Tapes
Nixon Tapes. Org: The Nixon Tapes and Transcripts   NEW
Washington Post--Watergate
The Pentagon Papers Case: The Nixon Tapes and the Supreme Court Tape
President Richard Nixon Resignation Address
United States v. Nixon 1974
The Nixon & Sports Website

Gerald Rudolph Ford
Gerald Ford
Biography of Gerald R. Ford Jr.
Gerald Ford as President
Ford: The Longest Living U.S. President NEW
Gerald Ford's Proclamation Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon
President Gerald Ford Speech - Pardoning Richard Nixon
Selected Gerald R. Ford Speeches & Writings

James Earl Carter, Jr.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter's Presidency
The American Experience: Jimmy Carter
The Election of 1976
Human Rights & Foreign Policy
The Camp David Accords
Carter, Brezhnev, and SALT II
SALT II Treaty, 1978
Camp David Accords; September 17, 1978
The Crisis of Confidence Speech, 1979
Iran: Hostage Case Highlights U.S. Diplomatic Dilemma
Carter as President & Ex-President
Former U.S. President Carter Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
2002 Noble Peace Prize - Jimmy Carter

Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald Reagan
The New Right and Conservatism
Roots at the Ranch: The Best of Reagan
The Reagan Links
The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike, 1981
President Reagan's Evil Empire Speech, June 1982
The Invasion of Grenada, 1983
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Reagan Legacy: Star Wars
Reagan & The Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair 1983 - 1988 NEW
Public Diplomacy and Covert Propaganda: The Otto Reich Files
Independent Counsel Summary of Iran-Contra, 1986
The Reagan Speeches: The Challenger

George Herbert Walker Bush
George Bush
Lieutenant Junior Grade George Bush, USNR
1990 Men of the Year: The Two George Bushes
Human Rights Disgrace in Tiananmen Square, 1989
Panama & Operation Just Cause, 1989
Bush's Aggression Speech Regarding Iraq
Gulf War Debriefing Book
Desert Storm.com
Gulf War

William Jefferson Clinton
William Clinton
Clinton & Foreign Policy
The Clinton White House
Clinton-Gore Internet Archives
Ambush in Mogadishu, 1993
Oklahoma City Tragedy, 1995
Washington Post.com: Whitewater Legal Documents
U.S. House of Representatives Roll Call Vote: Articles of Impeachment, 1998
The Starr Report, 1999
Bosnia Link
Clinton in Vietnam, 2000

21st Century U.S. Presidents
George Walker Bush
George Walker Bush
The Life of George W. Bush
2000 Election
Bush Watch
AFL-CIO Bush Watch
Behind the Bushes
9-11
Executive Order Establishing the Office of Homeland Security & the Homeland Security Council
Bush Job Rating Polls
Too Stupid to be President
The Smirking Chimp

Barack Hussein Obama II
Office of the President - Elect
WorldCat: Works By or About Barack Obama
2008 Presidential Campaign: Barack Obama & Joe Biden: The Change We Need
MySpace.com: Barack Obama
MSNBC: Barack Obama News
CNN Election Center 2008: Barack Obama

The Vice-President
Vice President of the United States-President of the Senate
Vice Presidents of the United States
VicePresidents.Com: All About the United States Vice Presidency
The Flag of the Vice President of the United
United States Vice Presidential Museum
Vice Presidents Who Became President
Vice President Agnew Resigns
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Great Norwegians: Walter F. Mondale
Former Vice President Dan Quayle Quotes
Dan Quayle: Quotes & Wisdom
Dan Quayle & Potatoe
Vice President Gore's Access America Online Magazine
Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth & Global Warming
Al Gore & WE Can Solve It!
2007 Nobel Peace Prize - Al Gore
Vice President Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney on the Issues
Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Senator Joe Biden

The First Ladies
The First Ladies
National First Ladies' Library
First Ladies IDEA Network
First Ladies
National Museum of American History: First Ladies Gowns
The Dolley Madison Project
Lucy Webb Hayes
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady's Lobbying Efforts for Federal Action Against Lynching
Mamie Doud Eisenhower
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jackie "O"
Claudia Taylor Johnson
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
Patricia Ryan Nixon
Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer Ford
Rosalynn Smith Carter Biography
Barbara Pierce Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
Laura Welch Bush
Michelle Obama Watch

The First Family
Past First Families
The President's Children
First Families
The First Twins
Malia & Sasha Obama   NEW
Malia and Sasha Obama: Level Headed Girls Facing a Big Change

The Presidential Pets
Presidential Pets Museum
White House Pets
FDR's Fala: The Most Famous Dog in the World
Two Stories About the Ford's Dog Liberty
Socks: White House First Cat
Spot, Millie's Daughter
Bushy Barney the White House Scottish Terrier
The Obama's First Puppy

The White House
Welcome to the White House
The White House: An American Treasure
The President's Park
Visiting the White House
Art in the White House
History of the White House Easter Egg Roll
Christmas Tree Lightings Chronology
Christmas Cards and Gifts from the White House

Camp David
The White House Military Office--Camp David
Presidential Retreat
A History of Camp David

Presidential Transportation
Presidential Yachts
The Presidential Yacht Sequoia
The Presidential Yacht
Air Force One
How Air Force One Works
Presidential Helicopters

Presidential Medal of Freedom
2002 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Politicians Who Received the Medal of Freedom
History of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Presidents' Day
Presidents' Day Page
The Origins of President's Day   NEW

Grants
The White House Historical Association Research Grant
NARA Presidential Library Grants

Organizations
The Presidency Research Group (PRG)
Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP)
The White House Historical Association

Journals
Presidential Studies Quarterly

Tools
Presidential Directives and Where to Find Them
Dataware Technologies Government Query Server

Forms
Federal Election Commission Forms
Petition for Commutation (Reduction) of Sentence for Federal Convictions Only
Petition for Pardon After Completion of Sentence for Federal Convictions Only

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