Records on the Correspondence between various public officials and the Bush Administration

The materials in FOIA 1998-0253-F are a selective, not necessarily all inclusive, body of documents responsive to the topic of the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials. FOIA 1998-0253-F contains correspondence between various individuals, mostly public officials from the national, state, and local levels of government, and the Bush administration. The vast majority of documents in this request are located in the White House Office of Records Management (WHORM) Subject File. Much of the material from U.S. senators and representatives sent to the White House 1998-0253-F 1 1998-0253-F 2 consists of letters to President Bush signed by any number of members of Congress on a wide range of foreign and domestic topics, including constituent correspondence that was passed along to the White House. There is no substantive correspondence directly between President Bush and these senators and representatives. The Office of Legislative Affairs was responsible for routing this correspondence to the appropriate department or official so a suitable response could be drafted. A minority of these records are from state and local government officials. This correspondence was handled by the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and most often related to issues of federal funding provided to state and local government entities. Again, there was virtually no correspondence between President Bush and these officials. Read less