The filing manual also contained these instructions: "In classifying material pertaining to the party in power, the Republican Party in the case of the Ford administration, use the primary subject designation PL, subdividing by state or name of individual as necessary. In classifying material pertaining to a political party not in power use the appropriate PL 5 subdivision."

Exceptions to the above are materials pertaining to the political affairs of foreign countries filed under the appropriate countries (CO) subdivision.

PL: Political Affairs - Republican Party
Executive 2600 pp. / General 800 pp.
Material on the activities of the Republican Party and the president's activities as its leader. Included are briefing papers and memoranda related to presidential meetings with Republican Party leaders and groups such as the Conservative Caucus, Republican National Committee and numerous groups representing women, blacks, business, and youth. Extensive material is included on the president's efforts on behalf of Republican candidates for national, state, and local offices in 1974, 1975, 1976. Also filed here are items concerning the Campaign Reform Act of 1974 and the proposed 1976 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act.

PL/name: Political Affairs/Name of Individual
Executive 8,800 pp. / General 42,400 pp.
Material on each individual suggested as a possible presidential or vice presidential candidate. This includes those suggested as Ford's vice president in 1974 and running mate for the 1976 campaign as well as subdivisions on Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. The subdivision related to Ford is the largest. In addition to the names for which separate descriptions appear, the files include correspondence on Howard Baker, Edward Brooke, George Bush, Daniel Evans, Barry Goldwater, Mark Hatfield, Melvin Laird, Elliot Richardson, and Nelson Rockefeller.

PL/Carter: Political Affairs/Carter, Jimmy
Executive 200 pp. / General 75 pp.

PL/Dole: Political Affairs/Dole, Robert
Executive 200 pp. / General 150 pp.

PL/Ford: Political Affairs/Ford, Gerald
Executive 7,700 pp. / General 38,400 pp.
Material relating exclusively to the 1976 campaign. Much of this is public opinion mail which received form White House responses and very little appears to be of substantive research value. Included are public responses to Ford's announcement to run in July 1975, suggestions concerning campaign strategy, and correspondence with people volunteering to work and with delegates to the 1976 Republican Convention. Also included here are White House materials on presidential campaign activities and liaison with the President Ford Committee.

PL/Mondale: Political Affairs/Mondale, Walter
Executive 6 pp. / General 5 pp.

PL/Reagan: Political Affairs/Reagan, Ronald
Executive 200 pp. / General 350 pp.

PL/ST#: Political Affairs/State
Executive 2,400 pp. / General 2,400 pp.
Material concerning Republican activities on the state and local level. Included is correspondence between the president and local candidates, invitations for the president to appear on behalf of the candidates, and briefing papers for meetings between the president and individuals running on the Republican ticket for national, state, and local offices. Also scattered items related to the 1976 state presidential primaries. Arranged by state file code.

PL/FG 106: Political Affairs/District of Columbia
Executive 20 pp. / General 14 pp.

PL/ST 1: Political Affairs/Alabama
Executive 20 pp. / General 11 pp.

PL/ST 2: Political Affairs/Alaska
Executive 20 pp. / General 1 p.

PL/ST 3: Political Affairs/Arizona
Executive 20 pp. / General 5 pp.

PL/ST 4: Political Affairs/Arkansas
Executive 20 pp. / General 7 pp.

PL/ST 5: Political Affairs/California
Executive 150 pp. / General 75 pp.

PL/ST 6: Political Affairs/Colorado
Executive 50 pp. / General 20 pp.

PL/ST 7: Political Affairs/Connecticut
Executive 60 pp. / General 25 pp.

PL/ST 8: Political Affairs/Delaware
Executive 20 pp. / General 2 pp.

PL/ST 9: Political Affairs/Florida
Executive 150 pp. / General 40 pp.

PL/ST 10: Political Affairs/Georgia
Executive 25 pp. / General 8 pp.

PL/ST 11: Political Affairs/Hawaii
Executive 20 pp. / General 7 pp.

PL/ST 12: Political Affairs/Idaho
Executive 20 pp. / General 9 pp.

PL/ST 13: Political Affairs/Illinois
Executive 150 pp. / General 75 pp.

PL/ST 14: Political Affairs/Indiana
Executive 75 pp. / General 25 pp.

PL/ST 15: Political Affairs/Iowa
Executive 50 pp. / General 14 pp.

PL/ST 16: Political Affairs/Kansas
Executive 20 pp. / General 9 pp.

PL/ST 17: Political Affairs/Kentucky
Executive 60 pp. / General 12 pp.

PL/ST 18: Political Affairs/Louisiana
Executive 50 pp. / General 6 pp.

PL/ST 19: Political Affairs/Maine
Executive 20 pp. / General 2 pp.

PL/ST 20: Political Affairs/Maryland
Executive 45 pp. / General 25 pp.

PL/ST 21: Political Affairs/Massachusetts
Executive 75 pp. / General 17 pp.

PL/ST 22: Political Affairs/Michigan
Executive 225 pp. / General 35 pp.

PL/ST 23: Political Affairs/Minnesota
Executive 35 pp. / General 20 pp.

PL/ST 24: Political Affairs/Mississippi
Executive 75 pp. / General 6 pp.

PL/ST 25: Political Affairs/Missouri
Executive 50 pp. / General 15 pp.

PL/ST 26: Political Affairs/Montana
Executive 11 pp. / General 3 pp.

PL/ST 27: Political Affairs/Nebraska
Executive 20 pp. / General 6 pp.

PL/ST 28: Political Affairs/Nevada
Executive 15 pp. / General 9 pp.

PL/ST 29: Political Affairs/New Hampshire
Executive 75 pp. / General 20 pp.

PL/ST 30: Political Affairs/New Jersey
Executive 75 pp. / General 65 pp.

PL/ST 31: Political Affairs/New Mexico
Executive 11 pp. / General 6 pp.

PL/ST 32: Political Affairs/New York
Executive 150 pp. / General 85 pp.

PL/ST 33: Political Affairs/North Carolina
Executive 45 pp. / General 20 pp.

PL/ST 34: Political Affairs/North Dakota
Executive 13 pp. / General 4 pp.

PL/ST 35: Political Affairs/Ohio
Executive 75 pp. / General 25 pp.

PL/ST 36: Political Affairs/Oklahoma
Executive 16 pp. / General 12 pp.

PL/ST 37: Political Affairs/Oregon
Executive 35 pp. / General 30 pp.

PL/ST 38: Political Affairs/Pennsylvania
Executive 300 pp. / General 75 pp.

PL/ST 39: Political Affairs/Rhode Island
Executive 20 pp. / General 4 pp.

PL/ST 40: Political Affairs/South Carolina
Executive 60 pp. / General 11 pp.

PL/ST 41: Political Affairs/South Dakota
Executive 14 pp. / General 4 pp.

PL/ST 42: Political Affairs/Tennessee
Executive 35 pp. / General 14 pp.

PL/ST 43: Political Affairs/Texas
Executive 225 pp. / General 30 pp.

PL/ST 44: Political Affairs/Utah
Executive 16 pp. / General 4 pp.

PL/ST 45: Political Affairs/Vermont
Executive 20 pp. / General 5 pp.

PL/ST 46: Political Affairs/Virginia
Executive 45 pp. / General 20 pp.

PL/ST 47: Political Affairs/Washington
Executive 20 pp. / General 10 pp.

PL/ST 48: Political Affairs/West Virginia
Executive 20 pp. / General 7 pp.

PL/ST 49: Political Affairs/Wisconsin
Executive 60 pp. / General 25 pp.

PL/ST 50: Political Affairs/Wyoming
Executive 9 pp. / General 2 pp.

PL/ST 51: Political Affairs/Territories
Executive 1 p. / General none

PL/ST 51-1: Political Affairs/Guam
Executive 3 pp. / General none

PL/ST 51-2: Political Affairs/Puerto Rico
Executive 3 pp. / General 1 p.

PL/ST 51-3: Political Affairs/Ryukyu
Executive none / General none

PL/ST 51-4: Political Affairs/Virgin Islands
Executive 3 pp. / General 2 pp.

PL 1: Convention
Executive 300 pp. / General 100 pp.
Material on the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City. Included are schedules, memoranda, scenarios and correspondence concerning planning the event and a copy of the convention program. Also scattered items concerning convention rules and rule changes.

PL 1-1/ST#: Delegates/State
Executive 250 pp. / General 100 pp.
Material on delegates to the 1976 Republican National Convention. Included are briefing papers and scenarios for presidential meetings with state delegate groups, recommended telephone calls and memoranda discussing the delegates' positions. Arranged by state file code.

PL 1-1: Delegates
Executive 60 pp. / General 1 p.
Material on delegates to the 1976 Republican National Convention more general than that in PL 1-1/states. Treatment is in terms of groups of states. Also included is a memo on the rules regarding delegate selection.

PL 1-2: Platform
Executive 300 pp. / General 20 pp.
Material on the 1976 Republican platform. Included are memoranda and correspondence on material submitted for consideration by the Republican National Platform Committee, briefing papers for presidential meetings to discuss platform issues, administration officials' testimony before the Platform Committee, material outlining the differences between the Democratic and Republican positions, and drafts and a final copy of the 1976 Republican platform.

PL 1-3: Site Selection
Executive 5 pp. / General 3 pp.
Items concerning New York City and New Orleans as possible sites for the Republican National Convention.

PL 1-4: Tickets
Executive 4 pp. / General none
Items concerning the distribution of Republican National Convention tickets.

PL 2: Fundraising - Expenditures
Executive 500 pp. / General 300 pp.
Material relating to fundraising efforts on the behalf of the Republican National Committee and the President Ford Committee. Included is material concerning the participation of President Ford and White House staff members in fundraising events. Many of these items are cross-references to items in Invitations (IV) and Trips (TR). Also included are scattered items on campaign reform legislation, alleged misuse of political contributions and expenditures by election committees.

PL 3: Messages - Sent or Denied
Executive 700 pp. / General 40 pp.
Material on messages from the president to members of Congress following elections in 1974 and 1976. Often the congressional member's response is attached. Also included in this file is a copy of President Ford's concession telegram to Jimmy Carter on November 3, 1976.

PL 3/ST#: Messages - Sent or Denied/State
Executive 4300 pp. / General 60 pp.
Material on messages from the president to local conventions, clubs, magazines, newspapers and for inclusion in written programs. Included are message requests and the subsequent drafts prepared by White House staff members to go out under the president's name and occasionally annotated by him. Not all messages took a written form. Some were telephoned live, taped for later use or telegramed. Arranged by state code.

PL 3/FG 106: Messages - Sent or Denied/District of Columbia
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 1: Messages - Sent or Denied/Alabama
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 2: Messages - Sent or Denied/Alaska
Executive 6 pp.

PL 3/ST 3: Messages - Sent or Denied/Arizona
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 4: Messages - Sent or Denied/Arkansas
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 5: Messages - Sent or Denied/California
Executive 225 pp.

PL 3/ST 6: Messages - Sent or Denied/Colorado
Executive 45 pp.

PL 3/ST 7: Messages - Sent or Denied/Connecticut
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 8: Messages - Sent or Denied/Delaware
Executive 15 pp.

PL 3/ST 9: Messages - Sent or Denied/Florida
Executive 60 pp.

PL 3/ST 10: Messages - Sent or Denied/Georgia
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 11: Messages - Sent or Denied/Hawaii
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 12: Messages - Sent or Denied/Idaho
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 13: Messages - Sent or Denied/Illinois
Executive 250 pp.

PL 3/ST 14: Messages - Sent or Denied/Indiana
Executive 125 pp.

PL 3/ST 15: Messages - Sent or Denied/Iowa
Executive 75 pp.

PL 3/ST 16: Messages - Sent or Denied/Kansas
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 17: Messages - Sent or Denied/Kentucky
Executive 16 pp.

PL 3/ST 18: Messages - Sent or Denied/Louisiana
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 19: Messages - Sent or Denied/Maine
Executive 15 pp.

PL 3/ST 20: Messages - Sent or Denied/Maryland
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 21: Messages - Sent or Denied/Massachusetts
Executive 35 pp.

PL 3/ST 22: Messages - Sent or Denied/Michigan
Executive 250 pp.

PL 3/ST 23: Messages - Sent or Denied/Minnesota
Executive 60 pp.

PL 3/ST 24: Messages - Sent or Denied/Mississippi
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 25: Messages - Sent or Denied/Missouri
Executive 40 pp.

PL 3/ST 26: Messages - Sent or Denied/Montana
Executive 16 pp.

PL 3/ST 27: Messages - Sent or Denied/Nebraska
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 28: Messages - Sent or Denied/Nevada
Executive 10 pp.

PL 3/ST 29: Messages - Sent or Denied/New Hampshire
Executive 30 pp.

PL 3/ST 30: Messages - Sent or Denied/New Jersey
Executive 150 pp.

PL 3/ST 31: Messages - Sent or Denied/New Mexico
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 32: Messages - Sent or Denied/New York
Executive 450 pp.

PL 3/ST 33: Messages - Sent or Denied/North Carolina
Executive 60 pp.

PL 3/ST 34: Messages - Sent or Denied/North Dakota
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 35: Messages - Sent or Denied/Ohio
Executive 150 pp.

PL 3/ST 36: Messages - Sent or Denied/Oklahoma
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 37: Messages - Sent or Denied/Oregon
Executive 25 pp.

PL 3/ST 38: Messages - Sent or Denied/Pennsylvania
Executive 175 pp.

PL 3/ST 39: Messages - Sent or Denied/Rhode Island
Executive 30 pp.

PL 3/ST 40: Messages - Sent or Denied/South Carolina
Executive 30 pp.

PL 3/ST 41: Messages - Sent or Denied/South Dakota
Executive 14 pp.

PL 3/ST 42: Messages - Sent or Denied/Tennessee
Executive 45 pp.

PL 3/ST 43: Messages - Sent or Denied/Texas
Executive 135 pp.

PL 3/ST 44: Messages - Sent or Denied/Utah
Executive 20 pp.

PL 3/ST 45: Messages - Sent or Denied/Vermont
Executive 30 pp.

PL 3/ST 46: Messages - Sent or Denied/Virginia
Executive 35 pp.

PL 3/ST 47: Messages - Sent or Denied/Washington
Executive 50 pp.

PL 3/ST 48: Messages - Sent or Denied/West Virginia
Executive 10 pp.

PL 3/ST 49: Messages - Sent or Denied/Wisconsin
Executive 60 pp.

PL 3/ST 50: Messages - Sent or Denied/Wyoming
Executive 8 pp.

PL 4: Patronage
Executive 25 pp. / General 1 p.
Material on the Congressional Speaker Reform Committee. There is no material filed here related directly to patronage.

PL 5: Political Parties
Executive 10 pp. / General 1 p.
Items on the Prohibition Party, the U.S. Labor Party and Jesse Helms and the third party movement.

PL 5-1: Communist Party
Executive 7 pp. / General 1 p.
Cross-references to communist involvement in foreign governments.

PL 5-2: Democratic Party
Executive 120 pp. / General 275 pp.
Material on the Democratic Party including messages to the White House from Democratic groups and presidential responses, Democratic policy statements, briefing papers for meetings between the president and Democratic members of the House and Senate, and pledges of Democratic support for President Ford's presidential campaign.

PL 5-3: Independent Party
Executive 3 pp. / General 25 pp.
Cross-references relating to the Independent Party.

PL 6: Publicity - Publications
Executive 100 pp. / General 150 pp.
Material related to publicity and publications. Included are scattered issues of selected Republican publications such as First Monday, GOP Nationalities News, Republican Almanac, President Ford News, The American Political Report, regional and local Republican publications and various congressmen newsletters. Also included are public requests for President Ford's campaign material, slogan suggestions and scattered items concerning publicity for President Ford in the 1976 election.

PL 6-1: National Committee Releases
Executive 10 pp. / General 5 pp.
Items primarily related to GOP Nationalities News.

PL 7: Debates of Political Candidates
Executive 700 pp. / General 8,000 pp.
Material on President Ford and Jimmy Carter's presidential debates on September 23, 1976, October 6, 1976, and October 22, 1976 and the Robert Dole and Walter Mondale vice presidential debate held on October 15, 1976. Included are items concerning the physical preparation and arrangements for the debates, memoranda and letters concerning debate strategy from within and without the White House, wire service and newspaper stories and public and White House reaction to the debates. Also included are public reactions to the vice presidential debates, however most of this material is filed under PL/Dole, Robert and PL/Mondale, Walter.

PL 8: Voting
Executive 150 pp. / General 40 pp.
Material on voting including items on the proposed postcard registration legislation, Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975, the Texas Voter Registration Project, the proposal to name a Voter Registration Administrator and the extension of the Voting Rights Act. (Most of the material related to the Voting Rights Act is filed under HU 2-4.)

PL 9: Women
Executive 1 p. / General 3 pp.
Items on Mary Louise Smith and women speakers at the Republican National Convention.