ELMORE, THERESA: Files, 1982-1984 –
REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
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ELMORE, THERESA:
FILES, 1982-1984
Administration, Office of: Director’s Office 1981-1982
Administrative Office,
White House Operations, 1982-1984
White House Liaison
for the Arts and Humanities, 1982-1984 - see Arts and Humanities, White
House Liaison for
the: Records
During the 1980s, two
organizations provided administrative services to the White House staff and the
President. The two organizations were the Administrative Office of White House
Operations and the Office of Administration. The description of these two
organizations is provided from the 1988 Executive Office of the President staff manual:
“Administrative Office –
The White House Administrative Office is responsible for a wide variety of
administrative functions including accounting, budget, equipment, expense
reports, parking permits, purchasing, the ordering of supplies, newspapers,
magazines, duplicating machines, and the issuance of travel advances and the
processing of travel vouchers both official and political.
The White House Administrative Office should not be confused with the Office of Administration, which is a
totally separate agency within the Executive Office of the President and
provides messengers, print shop, personnel and payroll processing and data
processing services.”
“Office of
Administration – The Office of Administration (O/A) is a separate EOP entity;
its mission is to provide efficient and cost-effective administrative services
to the EOP. The O/A Director supervises
the following divisions: Administrative
Operations Division… Financial Management Division… Information Resources
Management Division…Library and Information Services Division…Personnel
Division…
Additionally the O/A
Director supervises four staff offices: Office of Facilities Management… Office of the
General Counsel [for the Office of Administration]…Office of Preservation… Office of Security and Investigations…”
While having fairly
distinct duties, the essential record difference in these two offices is one of
budgeting and control. The Administrative
Office is within the White House Operations office and is funded from the White
House budget. Therefore all of their
records are Presidential records. The
Office of Administration is technically a federal agency created and budgeted
by separate legislation in the late 1970s.
The Library has followed White House record keeping practices and only
treats the Director of the Office of
Administration as a Presidential record.
Since the Reagan administration was the first to function under this
newly devised administrative framework, some of the material for the Office of
Administration comes from non-Presidential functions, but for ease of use we
have placed all of this material within the Office of Administration:
Director’s Office collection.
The record-keeping
system of treating the Director of the Office of Administration as a
Presidential record was naturally boosted by actual work practices during the
Reagan administration. John F.W. Rogers
was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Administration in early
1981. He requested he have dual
responsibility for both White House Operations and the Office of Administration
to ease the functionality of the new agency and to settle some long standing
differences between the two organizations. This was granted in August 1981 and
he became both Director of White House Operations and the Director of the
Office of Administration. This dual
function continued throughout the administration and subsequent Directors:
Jonathan Miller and Chris Hicks. It ended
in August 1987 when Claire O’Donnell became Special Assistant to the President
for White House Operations and John Riggles was
appointed Director of the Office of Administration.
Theresa Elmore (now
Theresa Elmore Behrendt) began work at the White
House in March 1981 as Special Assistant to the Director, White House Office of
Administration (John Rogers). In August 1982 she began work as the Director of
the White House Administrative Office.
Ms. Elmore left her position in the Administrative Office in the fall of
1984 for the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Concurrently in August
1982, Theresa Elmore was appointed White House Liaison for the Arts and
Humanities in addition to her administrative duties at the White House. The White House had no budget or staff for
this position, so Ms. Elmore performed this function on an "as-needed"
and "part-time" basis.
For more material
created or used by Theresa Elmore, see also the Arts and Humanities, Office of
White Liaison: Records and the Administrative Office, White House Operations:
Records collections.
Office of Administration
Administrative Meetings: Directors Staff Meetings Monthly
Administrative Book #1
[September 1982-July 1983]
Office of Administration
Administrative Meetings: Directors Staff Meetings Monthly
Administration Book #2
[August 1983-October 1984]
JFWR/TAE Morning Meetings
WH Administrative Office Monthly
Reports Book
WH Administrative Office Monthly
Reports Book
WH Administrative Office Monthly
Reports January 1984-[July 1984]
[Financial Documentation and Policy]
(Notebook)