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. Through the links below researchers can view documents on our website, documents on other websites, photographs/audio/video, or on-line exhibits.

Documents on our website

• Vladivostok Arms Control Summit, November 1974 (selected dcouments)


• President Ford's Daily Diary, 1974-77


• Arthur Burns Journals/Diary (transcription), 1969-74


• Foreign Affairs/National Security Memoranda of Presidential Conversations, 1973-77


• National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda, 1974-77


• National Security Council Meeting Minutes, 1974-77


• Cabinet Meeting Minutes, 1974-76


• Gerald R. Ford speeches and writings (selected items)


• Betty Ford Speeches (selected items)


• Benton Becker memo on history and background of Nixon pardon


• Swine flu immunization program, 1976 (selected documents)


• 1976 presidential campaign (selected documents)


• Vietnam War (selected documents)


• Intelligence reforms and investigations (selected documents)

Documents on other Websites

• Public Papers of the Presidents
  (American Presidency Project website - all speeches, press conferences and remarks)


• Transcripts of Henry Kissinger Telephone Conversations
  (Department of State website - click on Kissinger Transcripts and use the Search box at the bottom)


• Department of State Telegrams (through December 31, 1975)
  (National Archives website)


• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Volumes
  (Department of State website)


• National Archives Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
  (to search for Ford Library documents, select Search Options, then Digital Copies, then Advanced Search (and specify Textual Records as the Type of Archival Materials and the Ford Library as the Location of Archival Materials)


• Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Press Conferences ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-1968
  (Dirksen Congressional Center website - published transcripts)

Photographs, Audio, and Video

• Media Photo Kits
  (high resolution photographs of Gerald and Betty Ford)


• Gerald and Betty Ford Historical Photographs
  (childhood through Vice Presidency)


• Selected White House Photographs


• Selected photographs and audio/video files
  (from Media Gallery of Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation website)


• Gerald Ford and Bo Schembechler photographs


• National Archives Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
  (to search for Ford Library photographs, select Search Options, then Digital Copies, then Advanced Search and specify Photographs as the Type of Archival Materials and the Ford Library as the Location of Archival Materials)


• Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Press Conferences ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-1968
  (Dirksen Congressional Center website - audio files, with transcripts and press releases, for nine press conferences)

On-line Exhibits

• "A Day in the Life of a President"
  (April 28, 1975 - the day Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces)


• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
  (Presidential Timeline website - includes a Gerald Ford timeline and exhibits on closing weeks of the Vietnam War and on President Ford and the Supreme Court)


• Entertaining Royalty: The State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip