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• The Diaries of George Washington (with manuscript versions and related materials), ed. by Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, contrib. by George Washington (HTML with commentary at LOC)
• The Journal of Major George Washington (based on Williamsburg 1754 first edition), by George Washington, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio; To Which Are Added, the Governor's Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer's Answer (Williamsburg, VA: Printed by W. Hunter., 1754), by George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Journal of Major George Washington, Sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq., His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of Virginia, to the Commandant of the French Forces on Ohio; To Which Are Added, the Governor's Letter, and a Translation of the French Officer's Answer, With a New Map of the Country As Far As the Mississippi (London: Reprinted for T. Jefferys, 1754), by George Washington (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Presidential Agenda: Sources of Executive Influence in Congress (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Roger T. Larocca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Science at the White House: A Political Liability (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edward J. Burger (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Road to Recovery (Leesburg, VA: LaRouche's Committee for a New Bretton Woods, 1999), by Lyndon H. LaRouche (PDF at larouchepub.com)
• Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, 1961), by Richard E. Neustadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man in the White House: His Powers and Duties (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1959), by Wilfred E. Binkley (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974-1977), by Herbert Hoover
  • Volume 1 (1929): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 2 (1930): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 3 (1931): page images at Michigan
  • Volume 4 (1932-33): page images at Michigan
• Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (Project 2025 presidential transition project plan; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c2023), ed. by Paul Dans and Steven Groves, contrib. by Kevin Roberts (PDF at project2025.org)
• American Presidents: Their Individualities and Their Contributions to American Progress (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1917), by Thomas Francis Moran (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), by William H. Taft (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Speeches, Addresses, and Messages of the Several Presidents of the United States at the Openings of Congress and at Their Respective Inaugurations; Also, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address to His Fellow-Citizens (Philadelphia: R. Desilver, 1825), contrib. by George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Analysis of the constitutional standard for Presidential impeachment (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by James D. St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• From McKinley to Harding; personal recollections of our presidents (C. Scribner's sons, 1923), by Herman Henry Kohlsaat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Masonic presidents of the United States of America ([Detroit?, 1945), by James Fairbairn Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• As I knew them; presidents and politics from Grant to Coolidge (Harper & brothers, 1927), by Henry L. Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Recollections of thirteen presidents (Doubleday, Page & company, 1906), by John S. Wise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Protest of the President of the United States. Against the usurpations of the Senate. ([Albany, 1834), by United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in Washington (Little, Brown, and Company, 1924), by David S. Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presidency and the crisis; powers of the office from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor (King's Crown Press, 1944), by Louis W. Koenig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The presidency and the crisis; powers of the office from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor (Edwards brothers inc., 1945), by Louis W. Koenig (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the appointing power of the President (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886), by Lucy Maynard Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897. Pub., by authority of Congress (Gov't Print Off., 1896), by United States President and James D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethics in service : addresses delivered in the Page lecture series, 1914, before the senior class of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University (Yale university press; [etc., etc.], 1915), by William H. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislative functions of national administrative authorities (Columbia university press, 1927), by John P. Comer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential power, the politics of leadership. (Wiley, 1960), by Richard E. Neustadt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presidency, its duties, its powers, its opportunities and its limitations; three lectures (C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by William H. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on the executive government of the United States of America. (I. Riley, 1809), by Augustus B. Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presidents and the press (The Macmillan Co., 1947), by James Edward Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summit diplomacy; personal diplomacy of the President of the United States. (Bureau of Governmental Research, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Maryland, 1958), by Elmer Plischke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The President and the Presidency. (Public Administration Service, 1949), by Louis Brownlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The President, office and powers, 1787-1957; history and analysis of practice and opinion. (New York University Press, 1957), by Edward S. Corwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The President, office and powers, 1787-1948; history and analysis of practice and opinion. (New York University Press, 1948), by Edward Samuel Corwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A supplement to A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1902. (Pub. by authority of Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1903), by United States President, George Raywood Devitt, and James D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The abolition of the presidency. (R. Worthington, 1884), by Henry C. Lockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our chief magistrate and his powers. (Columbia University Press, 1962), by William H. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Presidents. (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1989), by Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congress, information, and foreign affairs (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by Library of Congress Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division and Harry L. Wrenn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential responsiveness and public policy-making : the public and the policies that presidents choose (University of Michigan Press, 1997), by Jeffrey E. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidential executive orders (Books, inc.; distributed by Archives Publishing Company, a division of Hastings House, 1944), by N.Y.) Historical Records Survey (New York and Clifford Lee Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston Counties, Michigan : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies of all the governors of the state and of the presidents of the United States. (Chapman Bros., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the White House (The McClure company, 1907), by Esther Singleton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The presidents of the United States 1789-1894 (Gay and Bird, 1895), by Allan Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true republican : containing the inaugural addresses, together with the first annual addresses and messages, of all the presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1857; together with their farewell addresses, and illustrated with the portrait of each of the presidents. With an appendix containing the Declaration of independence and Constitution of the United States ... Also, the constitutions of the most important states in the Union (J. B. Smith & co., 1858), by Jonathan French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand civic and military demonstration in honor of the removal of the remains of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, from New York to Virginia. (U. Wolfe, 1858), by Udolpho Wolfe and Hudson G. Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through five administrations (Harper & brothers, 1910), by W. H. Crook and Margarita Spalding Gerry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The eagle screams (The Macaulay Company, 1936), by Coley Banks Taylor and Samuel Middlebrook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kritische vergleichung der bundesexekutivgewalten im Deutschen Reich und in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ... (Buchdruckerei Noske, 1912), by Gallus Thomann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidents of the United States in the century from Jefferson to FFillmore (The Linscott publishing co., 1902), by Francis Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidents of the United States from Pierce to McKinley (The Linscott Publishing Company, 1907), by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Harrison to Harding, a personal narrative, covering a third of a century, 1888-1921 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Arthur Wallace Dunn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The two-thirds rule (Jacksonville, Fla., 1928), by Gilehrist Baker Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congress, information and foreign affairs : (U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by Harry L. Wrenn, Library of Congress Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential inability . . . (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acrostical pen portraits of the eighteen presidents of the United States (J.L. Sibole, 1876), by D. F. Lockerby (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse delivered at Hanover, N.H. May 7, 1841 : on the occasion of the death of William Henry Harrison, late president of the United States (Printed by Tracy and Severance, 1841), by Charles B. Haddock and Dartmouth College (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rand, McNally political atlas for 1936 ... (Rand, McNally & Company, 1936), by Rand McNally and Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A personal narrative of the acquaintance of my father and myself with each of the presidents of the United States ([Press of W. F. Roberts Co.], 1915), by Alexander Burton Hagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• American presidents : their individualities and their contributions to American progress (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1928), by Thomas Francis Moran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidents and first ladies (D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated, 1936), by Mary Randolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Your handbook of Presidents and the White House. (Bruce Hampshries, 1961), by Robley D. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Messages and papers of the presidents (Bureau of National Literature, Inc., 1897), by United States President, James D. Richardson, and United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Printing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of the Rev. E. Mathews : the "Father Dickson," of Mrs. Stowe's "Dred"; also a description of the influence of the slave-party over the American presidents, and the rise and progress of the anti-slavery reform; with a preface by Handel Cossham, Esq. (Houlston and Wright ;, 1866), by Edward Mathews, Handel Cossham, and American Baptist Free Mission Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Grant National Memorial, New York (National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2010), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last speech of William McKinley, President of the United States, delivered at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, on the fifth of September, 1901 (Printed by the Kirgate Press of Lewis Buddy, 3rd, 1901), by William McKinley (page images at HathiTrust)
• American presidents; their individualities and their contributions to American progress (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1917), by Thomas Francis Moran (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside history of the White House; the complete history of the domestic and official life in Washington of the nation's presidents and their families (The Christian herald, 1908), by Gilson Willets (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations. Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens. Embracing an official summary of the national events of the first half century of the union. Embellished with miniature likenesses of the presidents, and fac similies of the sages of the revolution, signers to the Declaration of independence. (R. Desilver, 1825), by United States President, George Washington, and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Lincoln : letters and addresses (Sun Dial Classics Co., 1909), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• The addresses and messages of the Presidents of the United States, from Washington to Harrison. To which is prefixed the Declaration of Independence, and Constitution of the United States, together with a portrait and memoir of W. H. Harrison. (E. Walker;, 1841), by United States President (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presidents and their administrations. A handbook of political parties, for every voter. (J.W. Robinson, 1873), by Lewis O. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our presidential candidates (National Pub. Co., 1884), by Vincent S. Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The President of the United States : speech in reply to the toast "The President of the United States" at the Fourth of July dinner at Leipzig, 1898 (s.n., 1898), by Andrew Dickson White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forum of the presidents. (Govt. print. off., 1910), by Vice-President United States. Congress. House. Committee on Election of President and Joseph Holt Gaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inside history of the White House; the complete history of the domestic and official life in Washington of the nation's presidents and their families (The Christian herald, 1908), by Gilson Willets (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of our presidents (Broadway Publishing Company, 1913), by M. D. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ohio presidents ; an address delivered at the Ohio centennial celebration, Chillicothe, Ohio, May 20, 1903 (Press of F. J. Heer, 1903), by Thomas Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our presidents' mothers, wives and daughters, and Some Washington sermons. (Carson Harper Company, 1901), by Thomas Nelson Haskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plan of reform in the Constitution and governemnt of the United States and the state of New York. (Printed by J. Ormond, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A presidential survey from Washington to Hoover, inclusive ([s. n.], 1932), by Benjamin Franklin Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presidency vs. Hoover. (Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1928), by Samuel Crowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential inauguration (New York Democrat, 1933), by Emil Edward Hurja (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Einfluss der Verabreichung verminderter Nährstoffmengen auf die Milchsekretion (1911), by Ulrich Clauss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report to the forty-first President of the United States of America (American Agenda, 1989), by American Agenda, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald R. Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plan of reform in the Constitution and government of the United States and the State of New York : with amendments to the corporation charter and militia law (J. Van Norden & Co., printers, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents, 1789-1897 (Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1901), by United States President and James D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our presidents' mothers, wives and daughters; Some Washington sermons and (mayhap) "Young Konkaput, king of Utes," and "Occasional poems." (Published under auspices of the Colorado Poets and Author's Club, 1900), by Thomas Nelson Haskell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Executive-legislative communications and the role of the Congress during international crises : report of the Comptroller General of the United States. (U.S. General Accounting Office, 1976), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems with the presidential gifts system : seventh report (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• The living White House (White House Historical Association with the cooperation of the National Geographic Society and its Special Publications Division :, 1978), by Lonnelle Aikman, Rosalynn Carter, National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division, and White House Historical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foreign born citizens to be president (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential pardon power : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, February 28, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• H.R. 849 : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Legislative Process of the Committee on Rules, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session ... July 26, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules. Subcommittee on the Legislative Process (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of George Washington (Katz Brothers, 1855), by Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Presidency (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), by Edward Stanwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents (Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1910), by United States President and James D. Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general war powers of the president (1918), by Edwin Anders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ordinance power of the president (1919), by Denna Frank Fleming (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the Polk administration (G.P. Putnam, 1850), by Lucien B. Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse delivered at Cambridge in the hearing of the University April 8, 1810 (Published by William Hilliard, 1810), by David Osgood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty-six years in the White House (The Neale Publishing Company, 1902), by Thomas Franses Pendel and Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The protection of the president of the United States (Rhode Island Printing Co., 1902), by Le Baron Bradford Colt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Federal executive power. ([St. Louis, 1922), by Francis G. Caffey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigation relating to messages and papers of the presidents ... Report. <To accompany Senate Res. no. 275.> (Govt. print. off., 1900), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Printing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief lives of the American presidents and selections from their words of wisdom (Guang xue hui, 1904), by William Preston Bentley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidents of the United States in the century from Jefferson to Fillmore. (Toronto, 1905), by Francis Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The monarchical principle in our constitution. ([N.Y., 1880), by William Beach Lawrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Only authorized and official edition (Augusta, Me. : True & Co., 1888), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amend the Constitution with Respect to Election of President and Vice President (To Abolish the Electoral College System, etc.) : hearings before the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1 (Judiciary), Eightieth Congress, first session, on June 9, 11, 1947. (U.S. G.P.O., 1947), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• The presidents of the United States ([J.A. & R.A. Reid], 1897), by Henry Warren Rugg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herbert Hoover reassessed : essays commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of our thirty-first president. (U.S. G.P.O., 1981) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional amendment for three presidents instead of one : the exposition of the proposed plural executive (Wm. H. Moore, printer, 1878), by T. W. Bartley and Seymour B. Durst (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and public services of Gen. Benj. Harrison ... : to which is added the life and public services of Hon. Levi P. Morton ... also ... an account of the election and administration of every president ... with a history of the Republican party .. (N.p., 1888), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lists of visits of Presidents of the United States to foreign countries, 1789-1983. (U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Historian, 1983), by Evan M. Duncan and United States. Department of State. Office of the Historian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retirement, clerical assistants, and free mailing privileges to former Presidents : hearing before the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 4401 and S. 607 ... March 14, 1957. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providing penalties for the assassination of the President (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons of a century. For the 4th of July, 1876. Prevention is better than cure ... ([n.p., 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American presidents; their individualities and their contributions to American progress (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1933), by Thomas Francis Moran and Louis Martin Sears (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The home making of George and Martha Washington (The Commission, 1931), by United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The addresses and messages of the presidents of the United States, to Congress : comprising all the inaugural, annual, special, and farewell addresses and messages. (C. Lohman, 1837), by United States President (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les messages présidentiels en France et aux États-Unis ... (L. Larose & L. Tenin, 1906), by Antoine Marcaggi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Business of our government : a citizenship reader for use in the public schools by candidates for naturalization. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1961), by United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devaluation. (Govt. print. off., 1937), by Robert Luce (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Our martyr presidents, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley; biographies, speeches and stories. ([n.p., 1901), by John Coulter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Presidents of the United States of America; portraits and biographies. (Dietz Press, 1962), by August Dietz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A selected list of references on the constitutional powers of the President of the United States, including powers recently delegated (Library of Congress, Division of Bibliography, 1933), by Florence S. Hellman and Library of Congress Division of Bibliography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated album of biography of Meeker and McLeod counties, Minnesota : containing biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settler and representative citizens...with portraits of prominent citizens. (Alden, Ogle & Company, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethics in Service, by William H. Taft (Gutenberg ebook)

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