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Research Guide for Government Information resources

Public Papers of the Presidents

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Digitization from GPO. Herbert Hoover, then from Harry Truman to Barack Obama.
Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Within HeinOnline database (U.S. Presidential Library). These papers were privately published by Harper.

Speeches

State of the Union addresses
1994 to present. From GovInfo
State of the Union
Address to Congress, Feb. 4, 2020 (14 pages).

Presidents - Databases

American Presidency Project
Documents, statistics, and media archive. From UC-Santa Barbara.
Presidential Recordings Digital Edition
For these Presidents: John F. Kennedy ; Lyndon Johnson ; Richard Nixon. From the Univ. of Virginia.

Presidents - Actions

Presidential Actions
from the White House Briefing Room.
Executive Orders
1993 to the present. From GovInfo.
Clemency Recipients
From 1969 (Pres. Nixon) to the present, from the Office of the Pardon Attorney (within DOJ).

President Biden, Jan. 2021 - highlights

Joe Biden's Long Road to the Presidency
Special feature of New York Times online, Jan. 20, 2021
Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 2021
From the Briefing Room tab of the White House website.

For highlights of the President's work, consider reading the news from the Briefing Room tab from the White House website.

Impeachment of Pres. Trump, fall 2019 - Feb. 2020 and Jan. 2021

Please see the Hot Topics page for links about the impeachment of Pres. Trump.