Non-disclosure agreement that members of the Obama transition team were required to sign. The scope of the agreement included both traditional non-disclosure rules as well as ethics rules regarding lobbying activities.
This memorandum provides guidence on how policy teams should write promise books, books containing the promises made by then-Senator Obama during the campaign. The memorandum covers the formatting, sources of information, what to include and citations for promise books.
The Office of Personnel Management 2009 Presidential Transition Guide provides human resources guidelines for transition teams at the time of the transition to office.
This memorandum, sent to President Bush’s White House Counsel Fred Fielding, details four major problems that limit the efficiency of the appointments process and recommendations to address those problems. It was authored, written by the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers on behalf of the Partnership for Public Service.
A guide for government employees from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on how to keep federal records and set up proper record keeping procedures.
Since 1997, the White House Transition Project has combined the efforts of scholars, universities, and policy institutions to smooth out the American presidential transition. WHTP bridges the gaps between the partisan forces engaged in settling elections and the decision processes essential to governing by providing non-partisan information about the challenges of the American presidential transition and the strategies for overcoming those challenges. It provides these and other resources to presidential campaigns, the president-elect and the new administration.