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Presidents

White House web site provides a biographical information on all current and former U.S. Presidents and speeches and other information from the sitting President. Material from the Clinton years is available from an archive (below).
Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993 - present. Published every Monday, the compilation contains statements, messages, and other Presidential materials released by the White House during the preceding week.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States "This online service makes available material that was compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, in hardcover printed volumes entitled The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States." As of February 2, 2005, the site provided access to papers from 1992-2001. More recent materials from George W. Bush are available in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Older materials are available from the presidential libraries of George Bush and Ronald Reagan:

Biography

American President This site based out of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs provides information on the history and action of the presidency.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present Contains biographies of all members of the national legislature from 1774 to the present, including representatives, senators, presidents, vice presidents, and delegates to the Continental Congress. Searchable by name, state, and position.
Congressional Research Reports CU are reports written for members of Congress on a variety of issues, including the President.
Executive Branch: a hypertext reference resource from Internet Public Library.

Executive Orders

CIS Index to Presidential Executive Orders & Proclamations. Government Publications Reference KF70.A55 1987
An index to presidential executive orders from Washington to Reagan. The companion microfiche collection, Presidential Executive Orders and Proclamations, is available in the CU Law Library.
Executive Orders Disposition Tables, January 8, 1937 - present includes information about Executive Orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his successors. Although the citations do not contain the full text of the order, each citation includes the complete Federal Register citation and status of the order (whether or not the order was revoked or amended by a subsequent order and the number of the order which changed the status).
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, the seven volume set includes U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. Volumes I and III-VI cover U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970. Click on the volume's Table of Contents to find the list of Executive Orders. Also available in print from the Government Publications Library.
Guide to Locating Executive Orders and Proclamations Although some of the information is specific to the the University of Florida College of Law Library, the guide provides useful information on locating current and older executive orders and determining the status of executive orders.
Presidential Executive Orders (John F. Kennedy)

Presidential Debates

Commission on Presidential Debates provides a history of debates and videos and transcripts of selected debates from 1948-present.
CNN Presidential Debate History includes selected transcripts, news stories, and summaries of debates from 1960 to the present.
Presidential Debates: 1960-2008 This web site, part of the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara has text transcripts of the presidential debates from 1960 forward.

Specific Resources

The American Presidency Project provides access to full-text public papers of the presidents from 1929, State of the Union Addresses from 1789, and a streaming audio and video archive. Includes speeches, executive orders, proclamations, press conferences, Saturday radio addresses, Fireside Chats, State of the Union Addresses and Messages, addresses to Congress and to the Nation, and more.
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress "The collection is organized into three "General Correspondence" series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65. Treasures include Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his March 4, 1865, draft of his second Inaugural Address, and his August 23, 1864, memorandum expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election in the upcoming presidential contest." Browsable and searchable.
Bush White House Website These are archived whitehouse.gov web pages from the George W. Bush administration, 2001-2009.
Clinton White House Web Sites This website, from the William J. clinton Presidential Library and Museum provides searching and browsing for four versions of the White House web site from 1994-1998. Additional materials from the presidency of William J. Clinton are available in Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum provides over 10,000 documents online. Currently, the Safe Files (papers locked in FDR's White House safe), the German Diplomatic Files, and the Vatican Files are available online. The Safe Files include "correspondence, reports, and memoranda concerning: The Manhattan Project, the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations, the O.S.S., the War, Navy, Treasury, and State Departments, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, China, Great Britain and France, General George Marshall, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek..."
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress "The complete George Washington Papers collection from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 65,000 documents." It contains documents from 1741-1799 and is Browsable and searchable.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum includes photographs, audio files, letters, and official documents. The documents are grouped into themse such as Marshall Plan, Korean War, Berlin Airlift, desegregation of the military, Truman Doctrine, recognition of Israel, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
History and Politics Out Loud Check this site for Watergate tapes relating to President Nixon.
Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States Washington to George W. Bush from Project Bartleby.
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson from Harper's Weekly includes political cartoons, news articles, editorials and illustrations which appeared in the that title for the years 1857-1865 and 1866-1871. Includes an index of the Constitutional arguments, biographies of key figures, an impeachment simulation game and a teacher's guide.
The Living Room Candidate : A History of Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-present View television commercials from 1952-to the present online. Requires a media player.
Presidential Elections 1860-1912 A feature from Harper's Weekly with "cartoons from Harper's Weekly, especially by Thomas Nast, and from Vanity Fair, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, Puck, and the Library of Congress Collection of American Political Prints: 1766-1876. In addition to explanations of each cartoon, the site contains biographies, explanations of the issues, campaign overviews, and other relevant information."
Presidential Libraries from US National Archives and Records Administration.
Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress "The complete Thomas Jefferson Papers from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 27,000 documents. This is the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Document types in the collection as a whole include correspondence, commonplace books, financial account books, and manuscript volumes."