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Presidency Research Group at Work
This section outlines activities of the Presidency
Research Group. These include its standing committees,
and PRG Board actions.
I. Presidency Projects
The White House
Transition Project -
Formerly called The White House 2001 Project under direction of PRG members
Terry Sullivan and the current Project Director Martha J. Kumar, it helped smooth
the transition to the current administration,
and has provided general insights for future transitions.
See also White House Transition
Project Home at the White House for the same information and links. The Pew Charitable Trusts
provided funding support via the Transition to Governing Project, outlined at
AEI - Research.
Strategic Directions - This was a planning/vision document for the National
Archives & Records Administration (and presidential libraries) and other guiding documents that PRG
members helped to compose.
II. Publication
The official newsletter and research report of the PRG is the
PRG Report,
published biannually in Spring and Fall issues, and currently edited by Richard
Powell at the University of Maine. The button links to our Archive of PRG
Reports.
III. PRG-sponsored
Programs and Events:
American
Political Science Association (APSA)
Centennial Center.
As part of the Centennial
celebration of the American Political Science Association in 2003, the PRG sponsored the development of research fellowships for presidency
scholars to
work at the Centennial Center in Washington. You can contribute to these
fellowships by contacting
APSA Countdown to the
Centennial.
Presidential Power conference - "Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century" -
Conference sponsored by PRG and Columbia University, November 1996.
IV. Policy Statements by PRG:
The Board of Directors of the Presidency Research Group has periodically made statements on issues of concern to
presidency scholars. They are listed below by year of the event.
2001
Executive Privilege (Executive
Order 13233), issued by President Bush on 1 November 2001.
The PRG joined with APSA and many
other organizations to encourage
the President to rethink his order restructuring the handling of presidential
papers under the Presidential Records Act. The PRG believes the order as
currently written undermines the timely accession of essential evidence on the
conduct of the office.
Note: On the following, cross-reference
is to an old site with the file name
PRG
Reports that is not related to the PRG Reports cited
above. The old URL is
http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/prgnet/reports/PRGReports.html.
1997
Wilson Center Letter - The PRG joined with APSA
to encourage the U.S. House conferees to support the Senate version of the funding
bill for the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution.
1995
Archivist of the US - Qualifications for the
Archivist of the United States. This PRG Policy
Statement cites the appropriate
qualifications of a nominee to direct the National Archives and Records
Administration.
PRG on John Carlin is an undated statement in support
of Archivist nominee John Carlin.