1998-0004-F [1]

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This FOIA request contains the first segment of the files of Chief of Staff John Sununu. These files contain correspondence from senior level staff from every office in the White House Office, most offices of the Executive Office of the President, and from every member of the Cabinet. In addition this request contains correspondence from many members of Congress and from several conservative organizations, including the National Right to Life Committee and the Heritage Foundation. The material covers many of the issues that faced the Bush Administration from 1989 to 1990, including the transition from the Reagan Administration, abortion / fetal tissue research, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, international trade (especially international textiles), the savings and loan industry, the steel VRA (Voluntary Restraint Agreement) program, the Clean Air Act, the White House Conference on Global Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), relations with China following the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, immigration policy for Chinese students studying in the United States after the 1989 demonstrations, the National Drug Control Strategy, the 1990 Houston Economic Summit, the 1990 Education Summit, the 1990 Bipartisan Budget Agreement, oil drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, the spotted owl issue, turtle excluder devices, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the nomination of Supreme Court Justice David Souter. Due to the restrictions of the Presidential Records Act all decision-making memoranda and correspondence have been removed, leaving only routine correspondence, routine reports, press releases, press clippings, papers produced by organizations outside the Administration, and speech drafts in the open file.

The folders devoted to individual offices and members of the Administration vary widely in size and content. Many of these folders contain information on the topics listed above. It should be noted that this request contains information on more topics than just the issues listed above. In some cases, material for the additional topics can be found in the files of the appropriate individual offices or staff members. In other cases, the topics have their own folders.

Please note that a "*" indicates that a collection is entirely processed and open. A more detailed description of the materials is available in the finding aid for the office or category.

Please also note that a "**" indicates files or documents that were incidentally processed as part of this FOIA request.