1998-0004-F [2]

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This FOIA request contains the second segment of the files of Chief of Staff John Sununu. These files contain correspondence from senior level staff in 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 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 1991, including the transition from the Reagan Administration to the Bush Administration, abortion, AIDS, the automobile industry, the Brazil Environmental Conference, civil rights, Clean Air, the "credit crunch", planning for the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the London Economic Summit, proposed Presidential Fast Track authority, FIN/SYN (Financial Interest and Syndication Rules), global warming, the National Energy Strategy, the Persian Gulf War, the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the Uruguay Round of economic negotiations, wetlands conservation, and Most Favored Nation status for the People?s Republic of China.

In addition, this segment contains the daily itinerary files for John Sununu from 1989 through the end of 1991. These itinerary files show Sununu's daily schedule for both office activities and travel. This segment also contains Sununu's Daily Agenda binders from 1989 to 1991. These binders contained lists of discussion items for the Chief of Staff, with copious annotations from Sununu and an assortment of background material for the discussion items. The amount of background material varies widely from week to week, and, in fact, there are several weeks of discussion items missing from the file entirely. Due to the restrictions of the Presidential Records Act, all decision-making memoranda, annotations, and correspondence have been removed, leaving only routine correspondence, routine reports, routine annotations, 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.