Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Office of President-elect Obama and the White House establishing the relationship between the transition team and the outgoing White House. “The chief of staff and the chair of the president-elect’s transition team enter into this memorandum of understanding in order to establish an orderly process for identifying individuals charged with transition responsibilities, to ensure that the government’s and the office of the president-elect’s standards of conduct are observed, to protect the confidentiality of nonpublic government information made available to the transition team during the transition period, to preserve the constitutional, statutory and common law privileges that attach to such information in the possession of the executive branch, and to protect the confìdentiality of transition information made available to the government.”
The code of ethics details the expectations for members of the incoming Obama transition team. The document includes guidelines for accepting gifts, disclosing previous lobbying experience, disqualifications associated with conflicts of interest, and other standards of conduct expected from employees of the Transition Project.
This memorandum, by presidential transition advisors Harrison Wellford, Mirah Horowitz and Tom Shakow, details key benchmarks with which to measure a successful transition.
Letter ascertaining the winner of the 2008 presidential election from Acting GSA Administrator James Williams to President-elect Barak Obama on Nov. 25, 2008, which triggers to resources and support from the General Services Administration in support of the presidential transition.
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishes guidelines for obtaining services and facilities made available by the General Services Administration (GSA) to the President-elect and the Vice President-elect and paid out of funds appropriated in accordance with the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as amended.
This detailed outline from the Obama-Biden Transtion Team leadership provides guidance to the transition agency review teams for reporting their research about federal agencies. The document contains sections discussing the general purpose, audience and an eight-section outline for a standard reporting and data gathering format.
This memorandum fromthe Obama-Biden Transition Project’s OMB Transition team leader, begins specifying context and budget development plans for the transition and to identify specific budget-related tasks to ask of the post-election transition agency review teams.
This template from the Obama-Biden Transition Project details the information required in a 2-page summary of the agency’s strategic priorities, major looming issues and senior personnel concerns.
A legal document the Obama-Biden Transition Project filed to set up the 501(c)4 organization.
A legal document required to register the 501(c)4 presidential transition organization in 2008.