HICKS, CHRISTOPHER: Files, 1985-1986 – REAGAN LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
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HICKS, CHRISTOPHER:
Files, 1985-1986
Counsel to the
President, Office of, 1981-1982 - See separate inventory
Presidential
Personnel, Office of, 1982-1985 - See separate inventory
Office of
Administration: Director’s Office, 1985-1986 (Director) & White House
Operations,
Office of,
(Deputy Assistant to the President for Administration)
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.
Christopher Hicks
followed the tradition established by John F.W. Rogers of being the Director of
both White House Operations and the federal agency – the White House Office of
Administration. Hicks appears to have utilized his role on the White House staff
(Director of White House Operations) more heavily than Rogers before him,
probably because he had been a White House staff member in other offices. There
is much less internal documentation of the Office of Administration within this
collection. Hicks work product may be found throughout the various offices
reporting to him in Operations: the Administrative Office, White House
Personnel, the Travel and Telegraph office, the Visitor’s Office, and White
House Correspondence.
Chris Hicks Telephone Logs
11/10/1985-06/12/1986
Chris Hicks Chron
Files 11/01/1985-06/16/1986
Chris Hicks 1985
Chris Hicks Miscellaneous