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Clinton Presidential Library
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Little Rock, AR 72201
Inventory for FOIA Request 2006-0947-F
Records relating to the Export-Import Bank of the United States and an HIV/AIDS
program for Africa announced in July 2000.
Extent
31 folders, approximately 1175 pages
Access
Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Clinton Presidential Records is governed by the
Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 USC 2201) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5
USC 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance
with legal exemptions.
Copyright
Documents in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as
part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the
copyright law of the United States (17 USC 101) which governs the making of photocopies or
other reproductions of copyrighted material.
Provenance
Official records of William Jefferson Clinton’s presidency are housed at the Clinton Presidential
Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under
the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
Processed by
Staff Archivist, 2011. Previously restricted materials are added as they are released.
Scope and Content
The materials in FOIA 2006-0947-F are a selective body of documents responsive to the topic of
the FOIA. Researchers should consult the archivist about related materials.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2009. It
was created in 1934 as the Export-Import Bank of Washington. President Franklin D. Roosevet
signed Executive Order 6581 on February 2 creating the bank. Its goal was to primarily support
Roosevelt’s New Deal and to increase exports of American goods by offering working capital
guarantees and credit insurance among other programs. In 1968, Congress changed the name to
the Export-Import Bank of the United States though it is often more commonly called the Ex-Im
Bank, or simply Ex-Im. The first loan given by the bank was a $3.8 millon dollar loan to Cuba
for the purchase of Silver ingots from a United States supplier.
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�The bank operates as a semi-independent government agency. From 1993 to 2001 the bank
opened Project Finance and Aircraft Finance divisions. It played an important role in financing
exports to South Korea, Thailand, and Indonesia during the Asian financial crisis. It established
a Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee and enhanced its operations in that region. By 2000,
the bank supported $15.5 billon in exports to seventy-two foreign countries. Of this amount,
$326 million was for exports to Sub-Saharan African nations.
The ever growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa was a key focus of the administration in its later
years. In a letter written to Senator Dianne Feinstein on May 10, 2000, the President noted that
approximately 34 million people were infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, that
approximately 5,500 people were dying per day, and that almost 11.5 million people had died of
the disease. These totals amounted to approximately eighty percent of the total world-wide
deaths. This in a region that amounted to only 10 percent of the world’s population.
On July 19, 2000 the bank announced that it would offer $1 billion in guaranteed loans to SubSaharan, African countries for the purchase of medicines and medical equipment to fight the
spread of HIV/AIDS. This followed closely on the heels of a May announcement by a number
of pharmaceutical companies that they would lower the cost of their HIV/AIDS drugs for use in
those countries. It also followed closely President Clinton’s Executive Order 13155 which
removed legal barriers preventing the manufacture and sale of HIV/AIDS pharmaceuticals in
many Sub-Saharan Africa nations.
Certainly the program was not without its troubles. South Africa and Namibia refused to
participate. A number of other African nations expressed reservations at a program that would
increase their national debts and further burden their distressed economies. At least one country,
Ghana, did partner with the Ex-Im Bank and accepted $250 million in loans for pharmaceuticals.
Records opened in this collection relate to the 2000 G-8 summit in Okinawa and the Clinton
administrations’ efforts to obtain funding for the African debt relief, specifically the Cologne
Initiative and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt initiative. The collection
consists of correspondence, speeches, memoranda, talking points and public press releases
regarding the announcement by the Ex-Im Bank of their loan program. Further, the collection
includes email regarding HIV/AIDS programs in Africa. Specifically, emails include
correspondence to and from Sandra Thurman, former director of the Office of the National AIDS
Policy.
System of Arrangement
Records that are responsive to this FOIA request were found in these collection areas—Clinton
Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files, Clinton Presidential Records:
Automated Records Management System (ARMS) [Email], Clinton Presidential Records: NSC
Cable, Email, and Records Management Systems.
Staff and Office Files were maintained at the folder level by staff members within their
individual offices and documents all levels of administration activity.
Staff and Office Files are processed at the folder level, that is, individual documents are not
selected and removed from a folder for processing. While this method maintains folder integrity,
it frequently results in the incidental processing of documents that are not wholly responsive to
the subject area.
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�The Automated Records Management System (ARMS) is a database that contains email records
of the executive office of the President. This system maintained unclassified Presidential record
email. The ARMS dataset is comprised of 6 sub-series of email records called ―Buckets.‖ The
buckets include NPR, OPD, POTUS, WHO, CEA, and Default. ARMS emails are arranged
chronologically by creation date.
The following is a list of documents and folders processed in response to FOIA 2006-0947-F:
Box 1
Clinton Presidential Records: White House Staff and Office Files
Chief of Staff
Podesta, John
Folder #6: Recent Information Items [AIDS in Africa] [OA/ID 14860]
Folder #6: Recent Information Items [AIDS in Africa Initiative] [OA/ID 14860]
National AIDS Policy Office
EX-IM Bank of the US [OA/ID 21067]
National Security Council
International Economic Affairs
Samans, Richard
Okinawa [G-8 Conference] [1] [OA/ID 3943]
Okinawa [G-8 Conference] [2] [OA/ID 3943]
Okinawa [G-8 Conference]: Debt Relief [OA/ID 3943]
Okinawa [G-8 Conference]: Health [OA/ID 3943]
National Security Council
International Health Affairs
Bernard, Kenneth
Ex-Im [Export-Import] Bank – AIDS Initiative [OA/ID 3646]
Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
OPD [OA/ID 250000]
[Export – Import Bank/ AIDS & HIV]
[06/05/1999 – 09/21/1999]
[10/27/1999 – 04/24/2000]
[04/24/2000]
[04/25/2000 – 07/31/2000]
WHO [OA/ID 500000]
[Export – Import Bank/ AIDS & HIV]
[06/16/1999 – 12/01/1999]
Box 2
[01/15/2000 – 03/07/2000]
[03/27/2000 – 07/21/2000]
CEA [OA/ID 950000]
[Export – Import Bank/ AIDS & HIV]
[01/05/2000 – 07/31/2000]
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�Clinton Presidential Records: Automated Records Management System [Email]
(continued)
Default [OA/ID 1100000]
[Export – Import Bank/ AIDS & HIV]
[06/04/1999 – 07/23/1999]
[07/26/1999 – 01/06/2000]
[01/12/2000 – 03/28/2000]
OPD [OA/ID 250000]
[From Thurman/ Gore and Africa]
[02/19/1999 – 07/28/2000]
OPD [OA/ID 250000]
[To Thurman/ Gore and Africa]
[05/19/1999 – 05/23/2000]
NSC [OA/ID 1200000]
[ExIm Bank and HIV/AIDS]
[07/13/2000 - 07/18/2000]
Clinton Presidential Records: NSC Cable, Email, and Records Management System
NSC Emails
Exchange-Record (Sept 97-Jan 01)
[ExIm and AIDS]
[01/04/2000-05/01/2000] [OA/ID 620000]
[05/02/2000-07/19/2000] [OA/ID 620000]
[07/19/2000-08/27/2000] [OA/ID 620000]
Exchange-Non-Record (Mar 97-Jan 01)
[ExIm and AIDS]
[11/29/1999-07/11/2000] [OA/ID 630000]
Box 3
[07/13/2000-09/07/2000] [OA/ID 630000]
NSC Records Management
[Export-Import, AIDS, Africa]
DC0599 DC Meeting on Global AIDS Crisis [OA/ID 3901]
0001688 [OA/ID 4081]
0005672 [OA/ID 4105]
0007282 [OA/ID 4113]
Last modified: 05/23/2012
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HIV/AIDS - Collection Finding Aid
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2006-0947-F
Description
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This collection consists of records that relate to the Export-Import Bank and their involvement in the HIV/AIDS program for Africa. The records relate to the 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa and the Clinton Administration’s efforts to obtain funding for African debt relief, specifically the Cologne Initiative and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt initiative. The records consist of correspondence, speeches, memoranda, talking points and public press releases regarding the announcement by the Ex-Im Bank of their loan program. The collection includes email regarding HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, specifically email to and from Sandra Thurman, former director of the Office of the National Aids Policy.
Publisher
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
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AIDS (Disease)
Export-Import Bank of the United States
HIV infections
AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--United States
Africa, Sub-Saharan
AIDS (Disease)--International cooperation
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