WASHINGTON and LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 18 LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire —
The following advisory was issued today by the National Archives:
WHAT: The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and the National
Archives will open 11,046 pages of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
White House schedules. These Presidential records will be made available in the Clinton Library research room and to the press on CDs on the day of the opening. These records will also be posted on the Clinton Library website http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/ as soon as possible.
These schedules are from the First Lady’s Staff files of Patti Solis
Doyle, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling for
the First Lady. Doyle was responsible for the First Lady’s schedule from
1993 to 1998, and then assumed additional responsibilities as Director of
Advance for the First Lady throughout the rest of the Clinton
Administration. Arranged chronologically, these records document in detail the activities of the First Lady, including meetings, trips, speaking engagements and social activities for the eight years of the Clinton Administration.
This file series includes schedules for 2,888 days. Clinton Library
archivists processing these records subsequently determined that schedules for 32 days were not included in this series; however, schedules for 27 of those days have now been located, and will be processed as soon as
possible.
Of the 11,046 pages of schedules that are being opened, 4,746 have
redactions. The majority of the redactions pertain to the privacy interests
of third parties, including their social security numbers, telephone
numbers, and home addresses. In addition, schedules for the first 19 days
in January 1993, prior to the inauguration of President Clinton and prior
to Mrs. Clinton’s tenure as First Lady, have been closed in full in
accordance with the Presidential Records Act. Researchers will find
occasional unusual text formatting and in some cases final schedules as
well as “revised final” schedules. Specific dates can be viewed on the CD
by selecting view and bookmark on your Adobe toolbar.
WHEN: 9:00 AM CDT/10:00 AM EDT
Wednesday March 19, 2008
WHERE: The CDs and a finding aid will be available simultaneously at:
— Clinton Presidential Library, 1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR (Textual copies of the schedules will also be available for review in the Clinton Library research room.)
— National Archives Building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC
