(#3) POF: Series 6. Staff Memoranda

Administrative Information
Historical Note
Collection Overview

List of Series
Series 1. General Correspondence
Series 2. Special Correspondence
Series 3. Speech Files
Series 4. Legislative Files
Series 5. Press Conferences
Series 6. Staff Memoranda
Series 7. Departments and Agencies
Series 8. Subjects
Series 9. Countries
Series 10. Personal Secretary's Files
Series 11. Special Events through the Years
Series 12. White House Signal Agency
Series 13. Presidential Recordings (White House Meetings and Telephone Recordings file)
ADDITIONS
Addition of June 2005

Collection Description

Series 6. Staff Memoranda.
Boxes 62-67

Six boxes [2.5 linear shelf feet] of the Staff Memoranda series were opened to research in January 1974. At that time two and three-tenths boxes [1.1 linear shelf feet] were closed because of donor restrictions or national security classification. Approximately one-tenth of a box [about 0.04 linear shelf foot] of valuable original documents was withdrawn and replaced in the open file with electrostatic copies.

The Staff Memoranda series was established by the President's personal secretary to contain memoranda from the President to staff members and from staff members in the White House to the President. At the beginning of the series is an incomplete collection of carbon copies of outgoing memoranda dictated by the President to Mrs. Lincoln. The remainder of the series consists of fragmentary records of memoranda from the staff to the President. Most of such memoranda may be found scattered throughout this and other Presidential Papers in topical series appropriate to the subject matter of the memoranda. Like so many of these files, this series is in no way a complete record of all transactions between the President and the members of his White House staff. It is simply a collection of memoranda that came to hand in the office of the personal secretary and were filed by her in a series she called "Staff Memoranda."

The Staff Memoranda series is alphabetically arranged by name of staff member, except that the first folder consists of the special set of outgoing memos mentioned above (arranged alphabetically within the folder by name of staff member). A comparison of the folder title list with lists of staff members (such as may be found in the U.S. Government Organization Manual) shows that not all staff members are represented in this series.

Researchers should consult other series of the President's Office Files, and should particularly consult the files of various staff members in the White House Overflow Files and the personal papers collections donated by the staff members.

8.4 Boxes. [3.64 Linear Shelf Feet]