Describes President Clinton's October 1997 visit to the Newark Preschool Council Inc. Head Start. Touches on the center's preparation for the visit, the President's remarks supporting Head Start, and participants' enthusiastic reactions to being visited by the President. (EV)

The purpose of this pamphlet is to teach the value of money, to understand the numbers and symbols on U.S. dollar bills, and to provide the history and facts behind U.S. currency. The following words, symbols, or numbers on dollar bills are identified: (1) legal tender; (2) Federal Reserve Note; (3) Federal Reserve Bank's seal and code letter; (4)…

Examines 11 microcomputer simulations dealing with politics, the presidency, and campaign issues. Topics covered include simulating the campaign; facts, history, and math of the presidency; a database approach; and voting. Lists positive attributes about each program. (MVL)

This paper describes the visit of President Bush to the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU) for the May, 1992 commencement and lessons learned from the experience. The paper describes how SMU made use of lead time and suggests how to estimate cost of such a visit. Discussion of strategies for organizing describes the formation and work…

Discusses the development of the modern U.S. Thanksgiving celebration from the earlier traditions of ancient English harvest festivals, solemn religious observances, and the commemoration of the Pilgrims' landing known as Forefathers' Day. Presents primary source material including excerpts from journals by William Bradford and Abraham Lincoln's…

Discusses the planning and implementation of a program to acquire copies of personal papers and federal records for deposit in the John F. Kennedy Library. The current status of the library's microfilm collections is described. (nine references) (MES)

Includes five articles that discuss presidential libraries. Highlights include an overview of the development of the federal presidential library system; the Ronald Reagan library; the Richard Nixon library archives; access at the Gerald Ford library; and computerizing the Jimmy Carter library. (LRW)

Examines President George W. Bush's higher education agenda, including campaign pledges of increased aid to low-income students and help for families saving for education. Also describes committee changes in the 107th Congress. (EV)

Describes the experiences of a group of 24 Johnsburg (Illinois) High School students as they attended a White House press briefing (at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal) during their trip to attend the National Scholastic Press Association convention and to study media in the Washington, DC. (RS)

Reviews the development of public libraries during the twentieth century and examines the influences of public libraries on twentieth-century presidents. It is noted and discussed that presidents who were well served as youths by public libraries or who provided leadership for public libraries during their administrations came from families of…

Reviews past approaches to the preservation of Presidential papers, the development of the system of Presidential Libraries, and the development of the Jimmy Carter Library. The National Archives' approach to computerization to deal with the increasing volume of materials is detailed and the PresNet computerized information system is described.…

This exploration of the need and potential for education and outreach programs at the Reagan Library begins by examining factors that make the Reagan library unique, i.e., its proximity to Los Angeles and a small town setting, closeness to the Nixon Library and birthplace, and Ronald Reagan's popularity. It is noted that, since the Reagan Library…

This article describes an enrichment program for gifted fifth-grade students, which focuses on American presidents. Students develop biographical profiles of a president whom they portray in various individual and group activities over a five-month period. The program addresses issues of leadership, ethics, and collaboration as well as building…

Asserts that Vice President Al Gore will be elected in 2000 based on the performance of the Clinton administration. Utilizes the key to the White House, 13 true-or-false diagnostic questions stated as propositions. If five or less are false then the party in power wins. (CMK)

Collection of nine articles about presidential libraries. Highlights include the National Archives; the Bush Presidential Materials Project; the Nixon Project; automation of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library; the John F. Kennedy Library; the Eisenhower Library's four decades; past and future of the Harry S. Truman Library; the Franklin D. Roosevelt…