Memo from Deputy Director for Management Clay Johnson to members of the President’s Management Council (PMC) regarding directions and timelines for activities for the presidential transition. This memo from OMB is dated July 18, 2008 and a copy was sent to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten. Goals for activities are to help ensure continuity of public services during the transition to a new administration, and help current non-career employees exit successfully.
This memo from Obama administration Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten addressed to the Administrator of the office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and heads of executive departments and agencies explains how agencies should respond to midnight regulations.
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.
This memorandum from OMB Director Jim Nussle to agency and department heads outlines the George W. Bush administration’s plans for the development the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget focusing on a submission that will provide a complete current services budget baseline for an incoming administration.
Nussle directs agencies to wait until the new administration, or its transition team, is in place to complete the normal director’s review or “passback processes” with OMB. A current services baseline provides an estimate of costs to carry on existing programs and assumes no policy changes. This allows the president’s successor to assess current spending levels and make his or her own policy decisions in developing their initial budget proposal.
Article detailing the National Archives and Records Administration’s job of collecting and archiving the presidential records of an outgoing administration.
Memorandum documenting the lessons learned by Clay Johnson, lead for the Bush–Cheney 2000 presidential transition. He focuses on all aspects of the transition process from stakeholder management, staffing the White house, appointing the Cabinet to building and managing a rapidly growing, temporary team.
This memorandum, written by Dave Gribbin, Director of Congressional Relations for the George W. Bush transition, discusses lessons learned in his role during the transition. Gribbin discusses what actions he advocates future transitions should do and what actions they should not do.
This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Office of President-elect Bush and the Clinton administration establishes the relationship between the transition team and the outgoing White House as required by the Presidential Transition Act. It includes provisions for transition procedures, identification of transition contacts and access to non-public government and transition information. This document was signed by the White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, and chairman of the president-elect’s transition team, Dick Cheney on December 18, 2000.
The code of ethics details the expectations for members of President-elect Bush’s transition team. The document includes guidelines for conflicts of interest, accessing non-public information, accepting gifts and other standards of conduct expected from employees of the presidential transition team.
This organizational chart displays the structure and personnel distribution of the Bush-Cheney Transition Team.