Covering the Obama Administration
Politifact: Obama Meter
St. Petersburg Times site tracks President Obama's campaign promises. The site is a spinoff of the 2008 Election's Truth-o-Meter.
Whitehouse.gov
The official page.
U.S. Government 2010 Budget
President Obama's proposed fiscal year 2010 budget.
Recovery.gov
Track who gets what in the 2009 economic stimulus package.
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Find, discuss and rate shovel-ready projects that benefit from recovery spending.
Social Government
This site tracks ways that local, state and federal government use social media.
AskSam.com: Obama Speeches Archive
This site has a deep archive of Barack Obama speeches from 2002 to the present.
2009 Transition and Inauguration
Carroll Publishing Transition Tracker
A great site that tracks changes in appointed and elected government officials.
Video and text.
New York Times: Most-Used Words in Presidential Inaugural Addresses
From 1789 to the present.
Change.gov
Obama's transition web site.
SourceWatch Encyclopedia: Presidential Transition Resources
Council for Excellence in Government: Presidential Transition
The White House Transition Project
Program formed in 1997 to ease the transition between presidents. Includes resources from policy organizations, scholars, etc.
General Services Administration: Presidential Transition
Provides the services and facilities needed for the new administration's official duties. Helpful in tracking technology needs and other improvements (and costs) a new administration may have.
CNN: Interactive Inauguration Event Map
Bartleby: Inauguration Speeches of Past Presidents
Searchable database of speeches.
History Matters: FDR's 1933 Inauguration Speech
Famous speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt given in Washington, D.C., March 4th, 1933. "We have nothing to fear ... but fear itself."
Government Accountability Office: 2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition
Library of Congress: Presidential Inaugurations
"I Do Solemnly Swear . . .": Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001. This presentation includes diaries and letters of presidents and of those who witnessed inaugurations, handwritten drafts of inaugural addresses, broadsides, inaugural tickets and programs, prints, photographs, and sheet music.
Obama's Office of Urban Policy
Citizens can contribute ideas on policies to improve cities.
Library of Congress: Inauguration Dates
Great for quick reference.
infoPlease: Inauguraton File
A treasure trove of facts and background, including media coverage, famous addresses, inaugural trivia, and life after the presidency.
Federal Citizen Information Center: National Contact Center
A great resource for anyone covering the federal government. The site includes phone and hotline numbers to various agencies, Congressional phone directories, contacts for cabinet departments, etc.
U.S. Government Press Release Sites
A clearinghouse of agency press releases and announcements.
Government RSS Library
USA.gov's RSS feed for news releases, agencies, etc.
WikiPedia: Inauguration Day
Includes history and traditions with the ceremony.
Poynter.org: Inauguration Resources List
WikiPedia: Inauguration Day
Scroll to the bottom of the page for a chronological chart of details of details from past ceremonies.
TeacherVision: History of Presidential Inaugurations
Truman Library & Museum: Inauguration Quiz
MSNBC: Mayors' Cries to Help for Obama
Survey, presented as an image map, of advice to Obama from mayor's of large and small U.S. cities.
TeacherVision: History of Presidential Inaugurations
MSNBC: Estimating Large Crowds
Steve Doig of Arizona State University uses a process to estimate large crowds. He uses Obama's Presidential Inauguration as an example.
Executive Branch
Whitehouse.gov
The official page.
National Archive: George W. Bush Public Papers
Searchable database that complements the printed volumes.
Library of Congress Executive Branch Links
One-stop shopping for government agencies (many of the links are listed below, by the way). This page is just a set of links to government agencies and are organized by the departments they're governed by.
Washington Post Watergate Archive
The Post put up this archive site in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Watergate scandal. Site includes a chronology of events, bios of key players, articles, reforms and transcripts of chats with Bob Woodward and Ben Bradlee.
Department of Energy
Another database of nuclear accidents.
Notable Names Database
More than 20,000 bios of famous people.
Department of Health and Human Services
Sunlight Foundation: Online Foreign Agent Lobbying Database
The Foreign Agent Registration Act requires the Justice Department to maintain detailed reports of lobbying firms hired by foreign governments and by organizations. Just select legislators from a menu and it will show their records, lobbyist ties, etc.
Presidents of the United States
Presidential/Congressional nominees history
Information about all nominees (received, rejected, confirmed) for the current session of Congress. It gives names, position for which the individual was nominated and the status of their nomination.
University of Texas: Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers
Findlaw: Chronology of Congressional Sex Scandals
Polizine: Biggest Political Sex Scandals Ever
HuffingtonPost: America's Top Political Sex Scandals
Journalism.org: What Scandals Make the Biggest News?
Museum of Broadcast Communications: History of Presidential Debates
Commission on Presidential Debates
PIBuzz.com: Government Salary Lists
Look up salaries for all kinds of federal positions.
PBS: The American Experience - The President
A great interactive video site that lets you pick a question that a past president will answer in a video. (Examples: "How Influential is the First Lady?" and "How Do You End a War?"
Poynter.org: Backgrounding Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Links, documents, photos, news announcements, statements, etc.
Gerald R. Ford Historical Photographs
Links, documents, photos, news announcements, statements, etc.
White House Museum
Unaffiliated with the government, this site gives a tour, stats, details about the building and surrounding area.
American Society of Civil Engineers
A 2005 report on failing structures in U.S. infrastructure.
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