SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

Material on advice given to the President, First Family, and White House staff on legal matters, foreign and domestic issues, conflicts of interest, presidential powers, personal matters and campaign law. Major topics include: clemency program for draft evaders, presidential pardons (especially Richard Nixon), judicial appointments (including John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court), 1976 presidential campaign (especially the role of the Federal Election Commission), handling of the Nixon papers, 1974 transition to the Presidency, intelligence community reforms, and administration of the Counsel's Office.

QUANTITY
47.6 linear feet (ca. 95,200 pages)

DONOR
Gerald R. Ford (accession number 77-5, 77-107, 77-123, 78-9, 78-58, 78-66, and 87-4)

ACCESS
Open, with the exception of the unprocessed intelligence materials. Some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256). Intelligence community materials are currently unavailable for research.

COPYRIGHT
President Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

Prepared by William H. McNitt, December 1988; revised January 1996
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Philip William Buchen

Feb. 27, 1916 - Born, Sheboygan, WI

1939 - A.B., University of Michigan

1941 - J.D., University of Michigan

1941-42 - Partner, law firm of Ford and Buchen, Grand Rapids, MI

1943-47 - Partner, law firm of Butterfield, Keeney & Amberg, Grand Rapids

1948-61 - Partner, law firm of Amberg, Law & Buchen, Grand Rapids

1961-67 - Vice President, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, MI

1962-74 and 1977-- Director, Old Kent Financial Corporation, Grand Rapids

1963-74 - Director, Rospatch Corporation, Grand Rapids

1967-74 - Partner, law firm of Buchen, Weathers, Richardson & Dutcher, Grand Rapids

1969-74 - Director, Communications Satellite Corporation, Washington, DC

1969-72 - Member, U.S. delegation to the INTELSAT Conference which negotiated a definitive arrangement for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.

Mar.-Aug. 1974 - Executive Director, Domestic Council Committee on the Right of Privacy

1974-77 - Counsel to the President, White House

1977-? - Partner, law firm of Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, Washington, DC

May 21, 2001 - Died of pneumonia, Washington, DC

INTRODUCTION

When Gerald Ford succeeded to the Presidency on August 9, 1974, one of his first acts was to appoint his long-time friend and former law partner Philip Buchen as chief White House legal advisor and give the position Cabinet status. During his administration, Ford relied upon Buchen for advice on a wide range of issues, legislation, and actions. Like Counsellors to the President John Marsh and Robert Hartmann, Buchen handled a variety of assignments not always covered by his specific job description. The extensive files accumulated by Buchen during his service in the Ford White House reflect his legal work, his role as an advisor to the President, and the administration of the Counsel's Office.

The Role of the Counsel's Office
As Counsel to the President, Buchen supervised a staff of attorneys in handling legal matters of particular concern to the President and the White House staff. Buchen and his staff provided a focal point in the White House to raise legal issues, transmit questions to departmental lawyers, evaluate the responses, resolve differences of opinion, and frame answers in the appropriate format for consideration by the President, while the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, and legal counsels in the various departments and agencies provided legal research and advice on proposals or policy issues.

In addition, the Counsel's Office gave advice directly on legal questions involving the official actions of the President and his staff. For example, they represented the President or his staff in court cases filed as a result of White House decisions or actions and advised on real or potential conflicts of interest. As the President's lawyers, they were even asked to advise on many matters involving his personal affairs.

Specific functions of the office also included: White House liaison with regulatory agencies, security and conflict of interest clearances for all White House staff and presidential appointees in departments and agencies, and representing the White House on legal matters involving former President Nixon.

Scope and Content of the Buchen Files
Buchen advised the President on a wide range of matters and his files touch upon a number of topics not strictly legal in nature. The collection is strongest, however, on topics involving major legal questions such as amnesty, pardons, appointment of federal judges, court litigation, reform of the intelligence community, actual or potential conflicts of interest involving administration personnel or potential appointees, and compliance with federal laws and regulations by the President, his family, and his staff in personal matters and campaign activities.

The Buchen Files contain material on several presidential pardons proposed or granted, but the bulk concerns either the Nixon pardon or the amnesty program for Vietnam War draft evaders. Scattered documents, such as letters from White House staff member Leonard Garment and Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, pre-date the Nixon pardon. Most of the material on the pardon, however, concerns attempts to defend Ford's decision in subsequent press conferences and the hearings of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (also known as the Hungate Subcommittee). Included is correspondence with Congressman William Hungate and other members of the subcommittee, transcripts, background information, and briefing materials.

Materials on the amnesty program for draft evaders concern the establishment of the Presidential Clemency Board, extension of the application deadline, operation of the program, and the Board's final report. Included are memoranda and reports from both Board Chairman Charles Goodell and Board members who disagreed with Goodell's handling of the program.

White House personnel matters and presidential appointments to positions, including the selection of federal judges, are documented. Materials on judicial appointments include Presidential Personnel Office memoranda, Justice Department recommendations, and letters received from the state or region in which the judge was to serve. Approximately 350 pages concerns the retirement of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and the subsequent appointment of John Paul Stevens.

Other personnel materials concern both allegations of conflict of interest or other wrong-doing by administration personnel and the standard background checks and financial interest reports completed by all potential presidential appointees.

The Buchen collection contains more than 3,000 pages of material on the handling of the papers of former President Richard Nixon. These range from memoranda concerning the legislation under which the government seized the collection and the resulting court battles to relatively routine documents concerning access by archivists and access requests from journalists, lawyers, and members of Congress.

Much of Buchen's material on the 1976 presidential campaign relates to efforts to comply with provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Acts of 1974 and 1976 and White House interactions with the Federal Election Commission over proposed rulings and regulations based on those laws. The Commission investigated such questions as the use of White House staff members for campaign activities and the proper allocations of presidential trip expenses.

Other campaign-related files concern forms used in screening potential vice presidential candidates, a campaign legal manual, and allegations concerning President Ford's congressional campaign finances and his alleged 1972 role in stopping an investigation of the Watergate break-in by the House Banking and Currency Committee, chaired by Congressman Wright Patman.

The Buchen Files should prove useful to anyone interested in the Ford Justice Department, because most files on legal questions include some input from the Attorney General or his aides. In addition, the collection concerns Buchen's contacts with other agencies over such matters as Civil Aeronautics Board and International Trade Commission decisions, the Bicentennial celebration, administration personnel matters, executive agreements with foreign leaders, and notifications required under the War Powers Resolution.

Although the Buchen Files contain a significant quantity of materials on personal matters involving the President and his family, the quantity on any one topic tends to be small. Topics range from First Family finances or the use of Camp David to approval of the band contract for Susan Ford's senior prom at the White House.

Buchen played an important role in the White House handling of the congressional investigations of alleged intelligence community abuses and reforms issued by the administration. Other intelligence matters documented in the collection include electronic surveillance law suits and legislation and the organization and operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence Oversight Board, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and the National Security Agency. Buchen's files concerning these matters are currently unprocessed and remain closed to research.

Related Materials (January 1996)
A closely related collection is the Files of Edward Schmults, Deputy Counsel to the President, which also include material from Counsel's Office predecessors Philip Areeda and Roderick Hills. The files of several other staff members of the Counsel's Office are also available for research.

White House Central Files Subject File JL (Judicial-Legal Matters) contains related material on such topics as amnesty for draft evaders, the Nixon pardon and other pardons, crime, the two assassination attempts, judicial decisions, and legal opinions issued by government officials. Materials on the Nixon papers, White House personnel matters, transition matters, and presidential appointments to positions appear in Central Files FG (Federal Government Organizations).

Collections containing material on the 1976 presidential campaign are described in "The 1976 Presidential Election: A Guide to Manuscript Collections Available for Research" which is available upon request.

Open collections relating to the intelligence investigations/reforms include White House Central Files Subject File categories ND 6 (Intelligence) and FG 393 (Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States); the Richard Cheney Files; the James Connor Files; the Ron Nessen Files and Papers; and the files of various staff members in the Congressional Relations Office, especially the Vernon Loen/Charles Leppert collection. Although the bulk of the files of the Rockefeller Commission are not processed, the Library has opened folders relating to the investigation of possible CIA involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy or in the anti-Castro plots of the early 1960s.

In addition, the Library holds unprocessed collections of Mason Cargill/Timothy Hardy Files and James Wilderotter Files, and unprocessed series on intelligence matters from the files of John Marsh and Michael Raoul-Duval. These collections/series are not currently available for research.

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

General Subject File, 1974‑77.  (Boxes 1-68, 27.2 linear feet)
Memoranda to and from the President, White House staff, and officials in the departments and agencies; reports; congressional bills; court motions and orders; executive orders; proclamations; testimony; messages; correspondence; and clippings. The materials concern his work in advising and assisting the President, including such topics as: amnesty, court cases, legislation, 1976 campaign, Federal Election Commission, judicial appointments (including the nomination of John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court), 1974 transition, White House liaison with the Justice Department, Nixon Papers, Nixon Pardon, administration personnel matters (especially standards of conduct and conflict of interest), privacy, evacuation from South Vietnam, and War Powers Resolution.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Congressional Correspondence File, 1974‑77.  (Boxes 69-73, 2.0 linear feet)
Correspondence exchanged with members of Congress concerning such topics as: legislation, executive orders, pardons, personnel matters, court cases, executive- legislative relations, and the Nixon papers.

Arranged alphabetically.

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General Correspondence File, 1974-77  (Boxes 74-98, 9.6 linear feet)
Correspondence with government officials, attorneys, businessmen, friends, and the general public concerning a wide variety of legal and judicial matters, personnel appointments, and legislation.

Arranged alphabetically.

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Counsel's Office Administrative File, 1974‑77.  (Boxes 99-101, 1.6 linear feet)
Correspondence, resumes, and memoranda concerning applicants for positions, personnel matters, and the operation of the office.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

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H.P. Goldfield File, 1974-76.  (Boxes 102-104, 1.2 linear feet)
Routine correspondence and clippings exchanged with the public concerning requests for assistance plus a small quantity of memoranda and reports concerning such topics as clemency, pardons, and privacy.

Arranged alphabetically by either name of correspondent (for correspondence) or topic (for memoranda and reports).

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Intelligence Investigations/Reorganization Numbered File, 1974-76.  (Boxes 105-111, 2.7 linear feet)
Memoranda, correspondence, reports, briefing papers, press releases, and clippings. The series basically covers the period from CIA Director William Colby's report to the President in December 1974 through the issuance of President Ford's executive order in February 1976. Many materials concern the investigation of alleged intelligence community abuses by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (Rockefeller Commission) and the House and Senate select committees. Others concern the administration's attempts to study the problems raised by the investigations and to formulate plans to reorganize the intelligence community. Very little concerns other aspects of intelligence.

Arranged according to a special filing system wherein file numbers were assigned to documents to reflect the originating agency and/or subject matter. Folder titles tend to be broad and non-specific. Photocopies of many documents appear in multiple file locations. The James Wilderotter Files make use of the same special filing system.

THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH.

Intelligence Subject File, 1974-76.  (Boxes 111-119, 3.3 linear feet)
Memoranda, correspondence, reports, legislation, legal motions, briefing papers, press releases, and clippings. Although some material relates directly to the intelligence investigations and reorganization, the bulk of the series consists of materials from after February 1976 or files from the earlier time period that relate to other intelligence matters. Significant topics include: electronic surveillance (especially the AT&T case, the Morton Halperin case, and proposed legislation); the reports of the congressional select committees (including the investigation of the leak of the House report); and the activities and operation of the Intelligence Oversight Board, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, and the National Security Agency.

Arranged alphabetically by subject.

THIS SERIES IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH.

CONTAINER LIST

Box 1 - General Subject File

• Abortion (1)-(2)
• Action Memoranda
• Agency for International Development
• Agriculture
• American Bar Association (1)-(3)
• American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (1)-(5)
  

Box 2 - General Subject File

• American Society of International Law
• Busing
• Buzhardt, J. Fred - Files
• Cargo Preference
• Central Files
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Civil Aeronautics Board (1)-(4)

Box 3 - General Subject File

• Civil Disturbances (1)-(3)
• Civil Rights
• Civil Service Commission (1)-(4)
• Classification
• Classified Log
• Clemency
  - Chestnut, Jack (1)-(2)
  - General (1)-(3)

Box 4 - General Subject File

• Clemency
  - Gottlieb, Irvin
  - Healy, Paul
  - Hunt, E. Howard
  - Kerner, Otto
  - List of Amnesty or Pardon Proclamations in History
  - Pardon Attorney
  - Rose, Tokyo
• Clemency Program
  - Congressional Legislation
  - Deadline Extension
  - Executive Order, Proclamation and Fact Sheets (1)-(3)

Box 5 - General Subject File

• Clemency Program
  - Executive Order, Proclamation and Fact Sheets (4)
  - Ford Foundation Study
  - General (1)-(7)
  - Personnel and Budget
  - Presidential Warrant Signings (1)-(2)
  - Press Conferences

Box 6 - General Subject File

• Clemency Program
  - Report and Recommendations
  - Requests for White House Guidance (1)-(5)
  - Termination of the Clemency Board
• Coal Strike
• Comment
• Commerce Department
• Committees and Boards - Creation of Presidential Commissions
• Committees and Boards - Federal Advisory Committees Annual Report
• Committees and Boards - General (1)-(2)

Box 7 - General Subject File

• Concorde
• Congressional
  - Antitrust Bill (1)-(3)
  - Antitrust Initiatives
  - General
  - Hearings: Duplicate
  - Hearings: Roundtable
  - House Rules
  - Legislation: Becoming Law Without the President's Signature
  - Legislation: Emergencies Acts Repeals
  - Legislation: General (1)-(2)
  - Legislation: Signing Ceremonies
  - Legislative Encroachment
  - Legislative Program
  - Lobbying (1)-(2)
  - No-Fault Insurance
  - Overseas Voter Registration Bill

Box 8 - General Subject File

• Congressional
  - Pocket Vetoes
  - Securities Reform Legislation
  - Senate Rule XXII
  - Status of Administration Sponsored Legislation (1)-(2)
  - Strip Mining (1)-(3)
  - Sunshine Law
  - Tax Liability
  - Vocational Rehabilitation
  - Voting Rights Act (1)-(2)
• Consumer Protection Agency
• Council of Economic Advisers
• Council on International Economic Policy and Economic Policy Board
• Court Cases - Pending Matters
• Crime - General (1)-(2)

Box 9 - General Subject File

• Crime - Hoffa Disappearance
• Crime - Message to Congress (1)-(2)
• Declassification
• Defense Department - Abortion Policy (1)-(2)
• Defense Department - General (1)-(2)
• Desegregation - Boston School Busing
• Desegregation - General
• Discrimination - Arab Boycott (1)-(2)
• Discrimination - General

Box 10 - General Subject File

• Domestic Council - Memoranda (1)-(3)
• Domestic Council - Organization (1)-(2)
• Economy
  - General (1)-(4)

Box 11 - General Subject File

• Economy
  - Inflation Impact Statements (1)-(3)
  - Trade: Ceramic Tableware
  - Trade: General
  - Trade: Generalized System of Preferences
  - Trade: Honey
  - Trade: Iron Blue Pigments
  - Trade: Meat Imports (1)-(2)
  - Trade: Poultry/Cognac
  - Trade: Slide Fasteners
  - Trade: Specialty Steel
  - Trade: Stainless Steel Flatware
  - Trade: Sugar
  - Trade: Textile Imports

Box 12 - General Subject File

• Electronic Fund Transfers, National Commission on
• Emergencies and Crank Calls (1)-(2)
• Emergency Plan - White House
• Energy (1)-(2)
• Environmental Protection (1)-(3)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1)-(3)
• Ethics
• Executive Agreements (1)-(2)

Box 13 - General Subject File

• Executive Agreements (3)-(4)
• Executive Orders
• Executive Privilege (1)-(7)
• Federal Advisory Committee Act

Box 14 - General Subject File

• Federal Communications Commission - Equal Time Provisions (1)-(5)
• Federal Communications Commission - General
• Federal Court Appellate System, Commission on the Revision of
• Federal Criminal Code
• Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments - 1974
• Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments - 1976 (1)-(4)

Box 15 - General Subject File

• Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments - 1976 (5)-(6)
• Federal Election Commission
  - Advisory Opinions
  - Campaign Guide
  - Corporate Political Contributions
  - General (1)-(2)
  - Legal Challenge
  - Morton Appointment as White House Counsellor (1)-(3)
  - Officeholder Accounts
  - Personnel
  - Regulations

Box 16 - General Subject File

• Federal Election Commission
  - RNC and PFC Payment of Presidential Travel Expenses (1)-(5)
  - Tennessee Senate Election
• Federal Energy Administration
  - Energy Resources Finance Corporation
  - General (1)-(2)
  - Natural Gas
  - Oil Price Decontrol (1)-(2)
  - Wallace and Wallace Entitlements Request

Box 17 - General Subject File

• Federal Maritime Commission
• Federal/State Relations
• Foreign Affairs - Legal Questions (1)-(2)
• Foreign Assistance Act
• Freedom of Information - General (1)-(3)
• Freedom of Information - Legislation (1)-(3)
• Freedom of Information - Requests (1)-(3)

Box 18 - General Subject File

• General Accounting Office - General (1)-(2)
• General Accounting Office - Mayaguez
• General Accounting Office - Transition
• General Accounting Office - White House Audits
• General Services Administration (1)-(3)
• Government Printing Office
• Grand Rapids - 6th Street Bridge
• Gun Control (1)-(3)
• Hatch Act

Box 19 - General Subject File

• Health, Education and Welfare (1)-(3)
• Helsinki
• Housing and Urban Development - Gatreaux Case
• Housing and Urban Development - General
• Indians - Bishop Hare Home
• Indians - General
• Indians - Passamaquoddy Case
• Indians - Pine Ridge Reservation
• Interior Department
• Internal Revenue Service - General
• Internal Revenue Service - Privacy of Tax Returns (1)-(2)

Box 20 - General Subject File

• Internal Revenue Service - Privacy of Tax Returns (3)-(4)
• International Relations - General (1)-(3)
• International Relations - Soviet Cases
• John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1)-(2)
• Judicial Appointments
  - California
  - Colorado
  - Connecticut
  - Court of Appeals
  - District of Columbia (1)-(2)
  - District of Columbia: Charles Halleck (1)-(2)

Box 21 - General Subject File

• Judicial Appointments
  - Florida
  - General (1)-(3)
  - Idaho
  - Illinois
  - Indiana
  - Kentucky
  - Louisiana
  - Michigan
  - New York
  - Oregon
  - Rhode Island
  - Supreme Court
  - Tax Court
  - Virginia
  - Washington
  - West Virginia
• Judicial Salaries (1)-(5)

Box 22 - General Subject File

• Judicial Salaries (6)-(7)
• Judicial System - General
• Judicial System - Report on Needs of the Federal Courts
• Justice
  - Court Cases (1)-(3)
  - Defense of Government Employees
  - FBI: Allegations Against Clarence Kelley - General (1)-(2)
  - FBI: Allegations Against Clarence Kelley - Public Correspondence (1)-(3)

Box 23 - General Subject File

• Justice
  - FBI: General (1)-(2)
  - General (1)-(8)
  - Immigration and Naturalization (1)-(2)

Box 24 - General Subject File

• Justice
  - Intelligence
  - Levi, Edward
  - Levi, Edward: Speeches
  - Opinions Requested (1)-(2)
  - Personnel: Attorney General (1)-(2)
  - Personnel: General
  - Referrals (1)-(2)
  - Saxbe, William: Speech
• Kennerly, David - Project
• Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
• Legal Matters
• MIA's (1)

Box 25 - General Subject File

• MIA's (2)-(4)
• Mayaguez Situation - General (1)-(2)
• Mayaguez Situation - GAO Report
• Mayaguez Situation - Nessen Press Briefings
• Military Aircraft - Use of (1)-(3)
• Minority Groups (1)-(3)
• Mushrooms

Box 26 - General Subject File

• Nader, Ralph
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
• National Growth Report
• National Security Chronological File (1)-(7)
• National Security Council
  - Continued Access of Richard Nixon to Classified Information
  - Documents Circulated for Opinions (1)-(3)

Box 27 - General Subject File

• National Security Council
  - General (1)-(5)
  - Navy Fliers Downed in 1950
  - Nixon/Thieu Letters (1)-(2)
  - Organization and Operation
  - Requests for Access to Records (1)-(3)
  - Sale of Missiles to Jordan
• Nixon
  - Ford Cabinet Meeting Statement, 8/6/1974

Box 28 - General Subject File

• Nixon
  - General
  - Miller, Herbert J.: Memorandum to the Special Prosecutor on Behalf of Richard Nixon
  - Papers: Access Authorizations (1)-(4)
  - Papers: Access Regulations (1)-(4)
  - Papers: Access Requests Compilation (1)-(5)
  - Papers: Agreement, 9/6/1974

Box 29 - General Subject File

• Nixon
  - Papers: Buchen Delegations of Authority
  - Papers: Congressional Requests (1)-(2)
  - Papers: Collection and Segregation (1)-(4)
  - Papers: Counsel's Office Memoranda
  - Papers: Court Cases - Apton v. Wilson and Kuhn v. Wilson
  - Papers: Court Cases - Dellums v. Powell
  - Papers: Court Cases - Halperin v. Kissinger
  - Papers: Court Cases - Hellman v. Sampson
  - Papers: Court Cases - Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
  - Papers: Court Cases - Nixon v. Sampson (1)-(4)

Box 30 - General Subject File

• Nixon
  - Papers: Court Cases - Nixon v. Sampson (5)
  - Papers: Court Cases - Sparrow v. Goodman
  - Papers: Court Cases - Sun Oil Co. v. U.S.
  - Papers: Court Cases - U.S. v. DeMarco
  - Papers: Court Cases - U.S. v. Mitchell
  - Papers: Executive Privilege
  - Papers: Former White House Staff Requests
  - Papers: General (1)-(4)
  - Papers: General Services Administration (1)-(6)

Box 31 - General Subject File

• Nixon
  - Papers: Government Officials Memoranda (1)-(3)
  - Papers: House Committee on Government Operations Investigations of Preservation and Security Arrangements
  - Papers: Legislation (1)-(3)
  - Papers: Memoranda to the President
  - Papers: Nixon Attorneys Correspondence (1)-(2)

Box 32 - General Subject File

• Nixon
  - Papers: Receipts for Materials Turned Over to Special Files
  - Papers: Report on Security and Duplication Arrangements
  - Papers: Rockefeller Commission Request
  - Papers: Saxbe Opinion re Ownership
• Nixon Pardon
  - Correspondence (1)-(5)
  - Ford Statement, 9/8/74
  - General (1)-(3)

Box 33 - General Subject File

• Nixon Pardon
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Background Material (1)-(3)
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Correspondence (1)-(6)
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Donald Santarelli Memo
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Ford Testimony (1)-(2)

Box 34 - General Subject File

• Nixon Pardon
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Ford Testimony (3)-(4)
  - Hungate Subcommittee: General
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Hearing, 9/24/74
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Ken Lazarus Memo re Possible Questions
  - Hungate Subcommittee: Transcript
  - Lawsuit
  - Legal and Historical Precedents (1)-(3)
  - Nixon Statement, 9/8/74
  - Other Requests for Pardons Arising From the Nixon Pardon
  - Press Releases, 9/8/74
  - Proclamation, 9/8/74
  - Woodward and Bernstein Articles, 12/10/75
• Nixon Pardon and Papers
  - Press Conference, 1974/08/28 (Ford)

Box 35 - General Subject File

• Nixon Pardon and Papers
  - Press Conference, 1974/09/08 (Buchen) (1)-(2)
  - Press Conference, 1974/09/10 (Buchen)
  - Press Conference, 1974/09/10 (Hushen)
  - Press Conference, 1974/09/16 (Ford) (1)-(3)
  - Press Conference, 1974/10/29 (Ford)
• New York - Financial Crisis
• New York - General
• New York - La Guardia Airport Bombing
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1)-(2)
• Office of Management and Budget - General (1)-(2)

Box 36 - General Subject File

• Office of Management and Budget - General (3)-(5)
• Office of Management and Budget - Legislation (1)-(6)
• Oil (1)-(2)
• Pay (1)

Box 37 - General Subject File

• Pay (2)-(3)
• Personnel
  - Applicants Sent to Personnel Office
  - Appointment of Congressmen to Another Office
  - Blind Trust
  - Conflict of Interest, A-G

Box 38 - General Subject File

• Personnel
  - Conflict of Interest, G-Z
  - General
  - Hathaway, Stanley
  - Interview by Archivists

Box 39 - General Subject File

• Personnel
  - Johnston, Edward (1)-(2)
  - McCormick, Richard
  - Morton, Rogers
  - Personal Data Statements
  - Presidential Appointments by Agency, A-Z
  - Presidential Appointments by Name, A-E

Box 40 - General Subject File

• Personnel
  - Presidential Appointments by Name, F-Z
  - Security Incident Reports
  - Security Investigations (1)-(2)
  - Security Waivers (1)-(4)
  - Sonnenfeldt, Helmut

Box 41 - General Subject File

• Personnel
  - Special Prosecutor Clearances (1)-(4)
  - Special Security Clearances
  - Standards of Conduct (1)-(5)
  - White House: Appointment of Military Personnel to Staff
  - White House: Becker, Benton
  - White House: Bennett, Douglas (1)-(3)

Box 42 - General Subject File

• Personnel
  - White House: General
  - White House: Higby, Larry
  - White House: Howe, Nancy
  - White House: Passes
  - White House: Rumsfeld, Donald
  - White House: Rustand, Warren
  - White House: Seidman, William
  - White House: Stiles, Jack
  - White House: Wolf, Thomas
  - White House: Woods, Rose Mary (1)-(3)
• Philadelphia
• Policy Issues (1)-(2)

Box 43 - General Subject File

• Policy Issues (3)-(6)
• Postal Service
• President
  - Assassination Attempts: Fromme, Lynette (1)-(4)
  - Assassination Attempts: Moore, Sarah Jane
  - Briefing Book Updates
  - Campaign: Ballot Authorizations

Box 44 - General Subject File

• President
  - Campaign: David Belin Strategy Papers
  - Campaign: Executive Branch Officials Participation (1)-(5)
  - Campaign: General (1)-(3)
  - Campaign: Justice Department Election Day Procedures
  - Campaign: Legal Manual (1)-(2)
  - Campaign: Offers of Support

Box 45 - General Subject File

• President
  - Campaign: President Ford Committee (1)-(2)
  - Campaign: President Ford Committee Accounting and Reporting Methods
  - Campaign: Unauthorized Campaign Committees
  - Directives
  - Endorsements (1)-(2)
  - Filming on the White House Grounds (1)-(2)
  - Former
  - Gifts: General (1)-(3)
  - Gifts: Nixon Gifts

Box 46 - General Subject File

• President
  - Gifts: Policies (1)-(3)
  - Gifts: Putting Green
  - Gifts: San Diego Yacht Club Trophy
  - Honoraria
  - Initiatives
  - Lawsuits
  - Medals: General
  - Medals: Inaugural Medals
  - Medals: Medal of Freedom (1)-(4)
  - Medals: Medal of Freedom - Calder, Alexander

Box 47 - General Subject File

• President
  - Medals: Medal of Freedom - Rubinstein, Artur (1)-(2)
  - Meetings: Business Community
  - Meetings: Cabinet
  - Meetings: Economic
  - Meetings: General (1)-(2)
  - Meetings: Labor (1)-(3)
  - Memberships (1)-(6)

Box 48 - General Subject File

• President
  - Messages and Letters (1)-(7)
  - Messages to Congress
  - Personal: Autographs (1)-(2)
  - Personal: Biography and Related Facts
  - Personal: Books
  - Personal: Buildings, etc. Named After
  - Personal: Camp David
  - Personal: Clubs
  - Personal: Dog ("Liberty")
  - Personal: Downton, Dorothy

Box 49 - General Subject File

• President
  - Personal: Family - Betty Ford (1)-(3)
  - Personal: Family - Christie Bloomer (1)-(3)
  - Personal: Family - General
  - Personal: Family - Jack Ford
  - Personal: Family - Mike Ford
  - Personal: Family - Richard Ford
  - Personal: Family - Steven Ford
  - Personal: Family - Susan Ford
  - Personal: Family - Tom Ford
  - Personal: Finances
  - Personal: First Anniversary of Inauguration

Box 50 - General Subject File

• President
  - Personal: General (1)-(2)
  - Personal: Home - Birthplace
  - Personal: Home - Boyhood
  - Personal: Home - Mara-Lago Estate
  - Personal: Home - Summer
  - Personal: Home - Vail
  - Personal: Leonard, Mildred
  - Personal: Loan Agreement for Bible Used in Swearing-In
  - Personal: Personal References
  - Personal: Phillips Petroleum Contributions
  - Personal: Portrait - General
  - Personal: Portrait - Paul Collins Mural
  - Personal: Prior Travel Records
  - Personal: Property in California
  - Personal: Warren Commission
  - Political Affairs: General
  - Political Affairs: Republican Fundraising Letters
  - Political Affairs: Republican Fundraising Letters - Congressional Campaign Committee

Box 51 - General Subject File

• President
  - Presidential Seal
  - Power to Remove Appointees from Office
  - Press Conferences: General
  - Press Conferences: Transcripts
  - Proclamations
  - Public Relations
  - Quotations
  - Reorganization Authority

Box 52 - General Subject File

• President
  - Scheduling: 1974-75

Box 53 - General Subject File

• President
  - Scheduling: 1976-77
  - Special Prosecutor Investigation - Clippings (1)-(2)
  - Special Prosecutor Investigation: Copies from the Ford Congressional Papers (1)-(2)
  - Special Prosecutor Investigation: Copies from Kent County and Fifth District Republican Party Records

Box 54 - General Subject File

• President
  - Special Prosecutor Investigation: General
  - Speeches (1)-(5)
  - State of the Union Address, 1975
  - State of the Union Address, 1976 (1)-(2)
  - State of the Union Address, 1977
  - Succession (25th Amendment)

Box 55 - General Subject File

• President
  - Swimming Pool (1)-(3)
  - Television Appearances
  - Travel
  - Wright Patman Investigation: Background (1)-(3)
  - Wright Patman Investigation: Clippings
  - Wright Patman Investigation: Memoranda

• Press Office (1)-(4)

Box 56 - General Subject File

• Privacy
  - Commerce Department Advisory Committee
  - Commission
  - Domestic Council Committee (1)-(5)
  - General (Includes House Republican task force report)
  - Legislation (1)-(2)
  - National Information Policy Report (1)-(2)

Box 57 - General Subject File

• Privacy
  - Roundtable on Privacy and Information Policy
  - Vice President's Memo, 12/11/75
• Protection
  - Demonstrations
  - Foreign Officials and Dignitaries (1)-(6)
  - Presidential Candidates (1)-(2)
  - Procurement of Property for the Protection of the President
  - Responsibilities of the Secret Service and EPS (1)

Box 58 - General Subject File

• Protection
  - Responsibilities of the Secret Service and EPS (2)-(3)
  - Unlawful Entry Statute
• Public Broadcasting
• Public Documents Commission
• Refugees - Indochina: Advisory Committee and Interagency Task Force
• Refugees - Indochina: General (1)-(4)
• Refugees - Indochina: Status Reports
• Refugees - Other

Box 59 - General Subject File

• Regulatory Agencies - General (1)-(3)
• Regulatory Agencies - Regulatory Reform (1)-(3)
• Regulatory Agencies - White House Contacts With
• Renegotiation Board (1)-(2)
• Reorganization Plan Authority
• Reports on Recent Legal Matters
• Republican National Committee
• Revenue Sharing

Box 60 - General Subject File

• Rockefeller, Nelson - Confirmation as Vice President (1)-(2)
• Rockefeller, Nelson - General (1)-(2)
• Rockefeller Public Service Awards
• Science Matters (1)-(5)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (1)-(2)
• Selective Service
• Shoe Imports
• Spanish Speaking

Box 61 - General Subject File

• Special Prosecutor (1)-(9)
• State Department - General (1)-(2)
• State Department - Visas
• Student Loan Marketing Association

Box 62 - General Subject File

• Supreme Court
  - Compilation of Nomination Recommendations Received
  - Form Letters Responding to Nomination Recommendations
  - General
  - Justice Douglas Resignation
  - Justice Stevens Swearing-In
  - Letters Recommending Potential Nominees
  - Stevens, John Paul
  - Vacancy: General
• Tax Reform Act of 1976
• Terrorism
• Transition, 1974 - General (1)-(2)

Box 63 - General Subject File

• Transition, 1974 - Personnel Matters
• Transition, 1974 - Policy Issues
• Transition, 1974 - Presidential Meetings (1)-(3)
• Transition, 1974 - Transition Team Report (1)-(2)
• Transportation Department
• Treasury Department
• Treaties
• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• Uranium
• Veterans Administration
• Vice Presidential Selection - 1974

Box 64 - General Subject File

• Vice Presidential Selection - 1976: Forms Sent to Potential Candidates (1)-(2)
• Vice Presidential Selection - 1976: General
• Vietnam - Evacuation: Cambodia
• Vietnam - Evacuation: Danang and Other Seaports
• Vietnam - Evacuation: Legal (1)-(3)
• Vietnam - Evacuation: Saigon (1)-(2)
• Vietnam - General
• Vietnam - Presidential Speech, 4/10/75
• Vietnam - Secret Understandings

Box 65 - General Subject File

• Wage and Price Stability, Council on
• War Powers Resolution: General
• War Powers Resolution: Korean Incident
• War Powers Resolution: Legislative History (1)-(2)
• War Powers Resolution: Mayaguez
• War Powers Resolution: Vietnamese War
• War Risk Insurance
• Watergate Reorganization and Reform Act
  - Congressional Bills
  - Congressional Report
  - Drafts of Administration Alternative (1)-(4)

Box 66 - General Subject File

• Watergate Reorganization and Reform Act
  - Memoranda and Correspondence (1)-(3)
• White House
  - Accounts (1)-(2)
  - Budget
  - Christmas List
  - Communications Agency
  - Curator: Committee for the Preservation of the White House (1)-(2)
  - Curator: Furnishings and China
  - Curator: General
  - Curator: Paintings (1)-(2)
  - Fellows
  - General
  - Handbook

Box 67 - General Subject File

• White House
  - Instructions to Staff
  - Memoranda to Staff
  - Mess
  - Military Aides Office
  - Public Liaison Office
  - Security Fund
  - Senior Citizens Greetings (1)-(2)
  - Senior Staff Meetings
  - Social: Federal Judiciary Dinner (1)-(3)
  - Social: General (1)-(2)
  - Staff Organization
  - Staff Testimony Before Congress (1)-(2)

Box 68 - General Subject File

• White House
  - Subsidiary Account
  - Tax Assistance
  - Tours (1)-(5)
• WIN Program
• Women's Groups
• Youth

Box 69 - Congressional Correspondence File

• A-Cn

Box 70 - Congressional Correspondence File

• Co-Hh

Box 71 - Congressional Correspondence File

• Hi-Mz and Morgan

Box 72 - Congressional Correspondence File

• Moss and N-Sh

Box 73 - Congressional Correspondence File

• Si-Z

Box 74 - General Correspondence File

• A - Bec

Box 75 - General Correspondence File

• Bed - Brt

Box 76 - General Correspondence File

• Bru - Cheq

Box 77 - General Correspondence File

• Cher - Cn

Box 78 - General Correspondence File

• Co - Dh

Box 79 - General Correspondence File

• Di - Fem

Box 80 - General Correspondence File

• Fem - Gk

Box 81 - General Correspondence File

• Fem - Gk

Box 82 - General Correspondence File

• Har - Houk

Box 83 - General Correspondence File

• How - Jom

Box 84 - General Correspondence File

• Jon - Kis

Box 85 - General Correspondence File

• Kit - Lev

Box 86 - General Correspondence File

• Lew - Mar

Box 87 - General Correspondence File

• Mas - Mic

Box 88 - General Correspondence File

• Mid - Nh

Box 89 - General Correspondence File

• Ni - Pn

Box 90 - General Correspondence File

• Po - Rob

Box 91 - General Correspondence File

• Roc - Sel

Box 92 - General Correspondence File

• Sem - Stae

Box 93 - General Correspondence File

• Staf - Sz

Box 94 - General Correspondence File

• T - VanderL

Box 95 - General Correspondence File

• VanderM - Washburn, Abbot (3)

Box 96 - General Correspondence File

• Washburn, Abbot (4) - Wim

Box 97 - General Correspondence File

• Win - Z

Box 98 - General Correspondence File

• Applicants for Positions A - M

Box 99 - Counsel's Office Administrative File

• Applicants for Positions N - Z
• Consultants - Gerald Morgan and Edward McCabe
• Counsel's Office - Files
• Counsel's Office - General
• Lawyers Under Consideration for Staff A - O

Box 100 - Counsel's Office Administrative File

• Lawyers Under Consideration for Staff P - Z
• Office Organization and Functions (1) - (3)
• Parking
• Presidential Delegations of Authority to Counsel
• Safeguarding Classified Materials
• Staff
  - Areeda, Philip A.
  - Buzhardt, J. Fred
  - Casselman, William (1) - (2)
  - Chapman, Dudley H.
  - Dannenhauer, Jane
  - General (1) - (3)
  - French, Jay T.
  - Goldfield, H.P.

Box 101 - Counsel's Office Administrative File

• Staff
  - Hills, Roderick (1) - (2)
  - Key, Shirley
  - Kilberg, Barbara
  - Lazarus, Ken (1) - (2)
  - Roth, Barry
  - Schmults, Edward
  - St. Clair, James
  - Wilderotter, James
• Travel
• Williams, George P. - Chronological File (1) - (2)

Box 102 - H.P. Goldfield File

• A-B (Correspondence)
• C-D (Correspondence)
• Civil Service - Employment of Aliens
• Clemency Program - GAO Report (1)-(3)
• Conservative Christian Church (1)-(3)
• E (Correspondence)
• F (Correspondence)
• Federal Property Council
• First Family Gifts Inventory

Box 103 - H.P. Goldfield File

• G-J (Correspondence)
• Hunting and Fishing Day Proclamation
• Johnston, Harvey F.
• K-R (Correspondence)
• Lexington Blue Grass Army Depot
• Lichtensteiger, Frank
• Nasem, Charles (1)-(3)
• Pardon Attorney Office - Organization and Operation
• Privacy Protection Study Commission - Annual Report
• Privacy Protection Study Commission - Report on Federal Tax Return Liability

Box 104 - H.P. Goldfield File

• Rawlins, Edward (1)-(2)
• S-Z (Correspondence)
• Serra, Arthur J.
• Sweeney, John M.
• Weeks, Etta (1)-(6)