Records of the White House Office of Records Management (George H.W. Bush Administration)

This series contains letters of correspondence, memoranda, coversheets, notes, distribution lists, newspaper articles, informational papers, published articles, and reports from the public, the Congress, Bush administration officials, and other various federal agencies primarily regarding the Persian Gulf Crisis. There are letters sent by the members of a variety of interest groups, as well as Senators, Congressman, military members, and civilians expressing concerns and/or support for the actions taken by the Bush administration during Operation Desert Storm/Shield. Unsolicited advice and various viewpoints are routinely provided in these correspondences in hopes of influencing various policies with the ally coalition and Iraq, as well as Bush administration policies for future peace in the Middle East. Often letters are accompanied by informational papers, newspaper articles, and other case study reports in support of the idea being presented. There are often replies offered by various White House offices defending Bush administration policies and giving general thanks for letters of gratitude, concern and inquiry. The drafting of these replies among the various executive branch offices generates routine administrative paperwork, such as the mentioned above memoranda, coversheets, notes, and distribution lists. These replies were most often written by various members of the State Department and National Security Council and then were generated to White House Offices as robo letters to provide general, non-sensitive responses to the variety of issues related to various facets of the Persian Gulf War. While the vast majority of these records are related to the Gulf Crisis there are also minute remnants of records related to other prominent subjects such as Vietnam POWs/MIAs and the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama.