Ford Library holdings include more than 25 million pages of documents, about 450,000 photographs, and thousands of audiotapes, videotapes, and films (see our online guide for descriptions and finding aids). The Library continues to digitize to make more of this massive collection available to researchers via the Internet. The links below point to digitized documents and audiovisual materials on our site and also some that appear elsewhere on the web. They are organized into the following categories:

• Presidency - General
• Presidency - Foreign Affairs and National Security
• Presidency - Domestic Affairs and Politics
• Gerald and Betty Ford's Early Lives
• Congressional Years
• Vice Presidency
• Post-White House Years

Search across digital collections:

Searching note: Although Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software does not recognize every character perfectly, using the search box above you can search the full text of documents digitized by the Ford Library and indexes to our White House photographs (it does not index digitized items listed below (it does not index documents listed below that are housed on other web sites)that are housed on other web servers).

Presidency - General

• President Ford's Daily Diary, 1974-77
• White House Photo Contact Sheets
• Public Papers of the Presidents (American Presidency Project site - text of speeches, press conferences and remarks)
• Cabinet meeting minutes, 1974-76
• Gerald R. Ford speeches and writings (selected items - includes some audio files)
• Betty Ford speeches (selected items)
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
• Media photo kit - President Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Media photo kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Selected White House photographs
• Selected photographs and audio/video files (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation site - see Media Gallery)
  

Presidency - Foreign Affairs and National Security
(see also Presidency - General)

• Foreign affairs/national security memoranda of presidential conversations, 1973-77
• National Security Council meeting minutes, 1974-77
• National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda, 1974-77
• Transcripts of Henry Kissinger telephone conversations, 1973-76
  (Department of State site - click on Kissinger Transcripts and use the Search box at the bottom)
• Department of State telegrams, 1973-76 (National Archives site)
• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Volumes for the Ford presidency (Department of State site)
• Vladivostok Arms Control Summit, November 1974 (selected documents)
• Vietnam War (selected documents)
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes an exhibit on the closing weeks of the Vietnam War)
• "A Day in the Life of a President" Exhibit (April 28, 1975 - the day Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces)
• Intelligence reforms and investigations (selected documents)
• Selected White House photographs (see Foreign Affairs sections)
• Entertaining royalty: state dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

Presidency - Domestic Affairs and Politics
(see also Presidency - General)

• Arthur Burns journals, 1969-74 (re Nixon White House/Federal Reserve)
• Benton Becker memo on history and background of Nixon pardon
• Swine flu immunization program, 1976 (selected documents)
• 1976 campaign (selected documents)
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 1969-1975 (NASA site)
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes an exhibit on President Ford and the Supreme Court)

Gerald and Betty Ford's Early Lives

• Investigatory Records on Gerald R. Ford, Applicant for a Navy Commission, 1941-1942
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
• Media photo kit - young Jerry Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Media photo kit - young Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Gerald and Betty Ford historical photographs (childhood through Vice Presidency)

Congressional Years

• Republican Congressional Leadership Meetings with President Richard Nixon, 1969-1973
• Ford Congressional Newsletters, 1950-1973
• Joint Republican congressional leadership press conference published transcripts ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-68 (Dirksen Congressional Center site - see also nine selected audio files, with transcripts and press releases)
• Joint Republican congressional leadership meeting minutes, 1965-68
  (Dirksen Congressional Center site)
• Ford remarks on impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, April 15, 1970
• Ford Conversations on the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon White House Tapes, 1963-1971 (Miller Center of Public Affairs site - this links to sample audio files and transcripts, but use the search box to locate more)
• Media photo kit - congressional years (includes high resolution photographs)
• Media photo kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Gerald and Betty Ford historical photographs
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)

Vice Presidency

• Remarks after taking the oath of office as Vice President, December 6, 1973
• Gerald and Betty Ford historical photographs
• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)

Post-White House Years

• Selected post-presidential speeches and writings
• Media photo kit - President Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
• Media photo kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)

Additional external pages of possible interest can be found on the Library's Related Web Sites page.