Chief-of-Staff

• Description
• Organizational Charts
• Interview with Bob Woodward on terrorism and decision making in the Reagan White House
• Forum on the Role of the Chief of Staff (video from Rice University)
• White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card Describes Role, Principal Concerns (by Dave Truilo, special contributor to Harvard Business School's Harbus online)

• Former NSA's speak at a Rice University forum (full transcript)
• The Role of the National Security Adviser (from the Brookings Institution)
• Interview with Robt. McFarlane, NSA 1983-85 on terrorism and the Reagan administration
• How Condoleeza Rice Changed the Role of National Security Adviser (Ivo Daadler and Mac Destler)
• History of the NSC (White House)

Office of Communications

• Description
• Organizational Charts

Press Office

• Description
  

  "The White House and the Press: News Organizations as a Presidential Resource and as a Source of Pressure." Martha Joynt Kumar. Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 33 Issue 3 Page 669 September 2003

• Organizational Charts
• A Responsible Press Office. Marguerite H. Sullivan
• A forum on Press Secretaries from the Newshour

White House Counsel

• Description
• Organizational Charts

Office of Management and Budget Director

• OMB homepage
• Mission and Structure of OMB

Secretary of State

• U.S. State Department: What We Do
• Department organization
• U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
• U.S. Department of State
• What the Secretary of State has been saying
• Iraq Update (U.S. Dept. of State)

Secretary of Defense

 

Office of Legislative Liason

• Executive/Legislative Liason in a Post Cold War Era (Anthony J. Eksterowicz and Glenn P. Hastedt)
• Oral History w/ Frank Moore (Carter Congressional Liaison)
• Oral History w/ Frank Moore (Miller Center)