The Research Room will close at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 24, 2025. Those wanting to do research on that Wednesday or Friday, December 26, 2025 must have their appointments scheduled by Tuesday, December 23, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. All virtual orientations and researcher paperwork must be completed as well.
We encourage researchers to contact the George W. Bush Presidential Library before making a research visit. See the Plan a Research Visit page for further information.
To learn more about all open Presidential records currently available for research, please view the Finding Aids below. Links to FOIAs without digitized material will open the Finding Aid only as indicated by the PDF icon. Material that has been processed, but has not been digitized can be requested via a reproduction order for a fee. Links to FOIAs with digitized material will open the secondary webpage. To search within digitized records, please visit the National Archives Catalog.
Electronic born-digital records, or assets, such as emails, are not digitized by the Bush Library. If a FOIA contains assets, unless otherwise stated, the assets are not currently available online. Electronic records can be viewed in the research room or requested via a reproduction order for a fee.
The FOIA request numbers are for administrative purposes only and are not consecutive.
- 2020-0009-F: Photographs of Nicolas Cage
- 2020-0028-F: Photographs of President George W. Bush and Johnny Cash
- 2020-0058-F: Emails To/From Michelle Steel from 2001 to 2003
- 2020-0066-F: Records of Correspondence between Jendayi Frazer, Special Assistant to the President, and Any Representative of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- 2020-0074-F: White House Visitor Logs for Dan Gertler
- 2020-0077-F: Electronic Records Mentioning Michelle Steel from 2001 to 2003
- 2020-0078-F: Textual Records on Michelle Park Steel
- 2020-0091-F: Video of President George W. Bush at Emma E. Booker Elementary School on September 11, 2001
To view, see the Library's YouTube channel @GWBLibrary. - 2020-0158-F: Photographs of the Event Announcing the Creation of the Department of Homeland Security on July 26, 2002
- 2020-0171-F: Records that Provided Direction for Officials who Performed Prepublication Review of Documents Submitted to the Nat
- 2020-0174-F: Photographs of Commemorative Egg Presentation in the White House
- 2020-0183-F: Photographs of President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush Shaking Hands with Airmen February 16, 2002, at Elmendorf AFB, AK
- 2020-0187-F: Correspondence between President George W. Bush and Anthony S. Fauci
- 2020-0192-F: Records on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Speechwriter Justin Walker from 2005 to 2006
- 2020-0202-F: Letters to Congress Related to the Temporary Transfer and the Subsequent Resumption of the Powers and Duties of the President
- 2020-0206-F: Photographs Taken with President George W. Bush on October 2, 2003