Executive Office of the President of the United States
The Executive Office of the President of the United States ( EOP ), often only Executive Office of the President or plain Executive Office , metonym also The White House (dt. About US President's or the White House ), is an authority assisted the President of the United States and assisted him in his executive duties.
It was created by the Reorganization Act of 1939 , a federal law , and in detail by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 8248 around five months later, in September 1939. Since then, the number of departments and employees has increased significantly.
The highest-ranking position in the EOP is that of the Chief of Staff of the White House ( Chief of Staff ). This position was taken over by Mark Meadows under President Donald Trump in January 2020 .
The EOP is headquartered in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington DC
Departments
At the end of 2010, the EOP had the following 28 sub-divisions:
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Whitehouse.gov
The domain whitehouse.gov
is used for the Executive Office's website. When Barack Obama took office , the whitehouse.gov
content was placed under a Creative Commons license, unless it was in the public domain as works by US officials . Before Donald Trump took office , the websites were obamawhitehouse.archives.gov
archived as.
literature
- Harold C. Releya: The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview. 98-606 GOV. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, November 26, 2008. ( fas.org PDF; 185 kB) on a FAS website .
Web links
- whitehouse.gov
- whorunsgov.com: EOP ( November 3, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ) on WhoRunsGov , a service from The Washington Post (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also the Wikipedia article Reorganization Act of 1939 , last accessed on June 3, 2011.
- ↑ See also the full text of Executive Order 8248 on a NARA website , last accessed on June 3, 2011.
- ↑ United States Government Manual (2009–2010) Edition , available on a GPO website , last accessed on June 3, 2011.
- ↑ golem.de , January 22, 2009: Barack Obama relies on Creative Commons
- ^ Barack Obama ea: Yes, we did. Yes, we can. In: ObamaWhiteHouse. NARA , January 20, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2017 (English, historical material “frozen in time”).