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Government Documents at ESU

Lists government departments and agencies that provide resources to obtain information on various topics

Executive Office of the President (EOP)

President

Compilation of Presidential Documents (1992 - Present)

  • The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary. 

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States  (Currently online: Hoover to Obama)

  • Volumes of the Public Papers of the Presidents from 1929 (Herbert Hoover) to 1991 (George H.W. Bush) published by NARA are made available as digital formats through GPO digitization efforts.
  • Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States that were issued by the White House Office of the Press Secretary during the time period specified by the volume. The material is presented in chronological order, and the dates shown in the headings are the dates of the documents or events.
  • The Public Papers of the President were not published by the National Archives for the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency; these volumes were published by a private printer.

The American Presidency Project (free website from UC Santa Barbara)

  • This non-government website is a "non-partisan on-line source for presidential public documents" from the University of California Santa Barbara. Go to the About page to learn more about the sources they use to compile these documents. Online collections include documents, statistics, videos, and analysis/commentary.  Browse by document category or by President. 

Executive Departments


Congressionally Mandated Reports (2023 - Present)

  • Congressionally mandated reports are defined as those reports that are required by statute to be submitted by Federal agencies to the Senate, the House of Representatives, or to congressional committees or subcommittees. Agencies must now also submit these reports electronically to the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) after first submitting to Congress, committees, or subcommittees as they do currently.