Collection: Melanne Verveer Papers | Georgetown University Archival Resources

Scope and Contents

Papers of Melanne Verveer (1944-), Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This includes itineraries, background information on the destination country and US relations with those countries, press releases on events during travel, planning correspondence, briefing memorandums for both the President and the First Lady with state goals of their trips, talking points, and full speeches. A few key event notebooks of particular interest include the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and Trip of the First Lady to the Middle East in 1998. The collection also includes Hillary Clinton's oral histories, documented in 2023.

Some of these materials formed the basis for the exhibition "Women's Rights Are Human Rights: The United States and the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women", held at the Booth Family Center For Special Collections between October 12, 2021, and February 13, 2022. They retain their arrangement for the exhibition (by exhibit case), and have been further separated by type of item: documents, photos, and objects.

Dates

1992 - 2023

Creator

Verveer, Melanne (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Most manuscripts collections at the Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off-site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials they may wish to use, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for your intended use.

Biographical Note

Melanne Verveer was born in 1944 and served as Chief of Staff to the First Lady and Assistant to the President during the Clinton Administration. She was appointed as U.S. Ambassador for Global Women's Issues by President Barack Obama in 2009 and now is the Executive Director of the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace, and Security.