Executive Agencies and the Office of the President

Comprehensive collection of online resources for the study of the U.S. presidency and elections including papers, speeches (audio and video), Executive Orders (1826-current), Proclamations (1789-current), party platforms, debates. From UC Santa Barbara.

Papers and speeches of the President of the United States issued by the Office of the Press Secretary. Browse or search via govinfo.gov
Covers the administrations of Presidents

> Hoover
> Franklin Roosevelt
> Truman
> Eisenhower
> Kennedy
> Lyndon Johnson
> Nixon
> Ford
> Carter
> Reagan
> George H. W. Bush
> Clinton.
> George W. Bush
> Barack Obama

Contains text of speeches from Obama, George W. Bush; and the campaigns of Romney and McCain.
http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/speeches/index.html

From the Scripps Library, University of VIrginia, UVA Miller Center. Speeches with transcripts, with some available in their entirety in audio or video.

Inaugural address(es) of each president with brief bio and historical events of the time.

Audio and video files from the JFK Presidential Library & Museum.

JPL 3rd Floor J81 .C66 (3 volumes)

Audio, video and transcribed text of famous speeches including political speeches, movie speeches and more.

Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events

A Museum of the Moving Image online exhibition of more than 300 television commercials from every election year from 1952 - 2008.
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

Articles from newspapers covering the elections.
JK 524 .P737 (Library has: 1900  1904  1908 1912  1916  1920  1924  1928  1932  1936  1940  1952  1956  1960  1964  1968)