Students may apply for the fall, spring, or summer internship. The substance of interns' work varies greatly from office to office. Some positions, for example, consist of assignments relating to a specific issue. Other positions are a bit of a grind. Correspondence interns, for example, spend most of their time responding to the president's huge volume of mail, phone calls, and faxes.
Some positions are just plain old fun.
Visitor's Office interns help coordinate requests for White House tours and plan special events such as the Pageant of Peace and the Easter Egg Roll. Sometimes interns find themselves assigned to a project of national importance. During preparations for Clinton's budget bill, a Communications intern spent long days running errands and fielding calls. I was there as history was being made. All Rights Reserved.