The heart of the WHCF is its Subject File. It contains information on nearly everything and everyone associated with the Ford administration. Sixty basic subject categories divide into over 1,000 subcategories using alphanumeric file codes, e.g. CO-Countries has a subcategory CO 75 Japan, and FI-Finance has a subcategory FI 4 Budget-Appropriations. Generally higher level materials are in yellow-labeled "Executive" folders, while samples of public opinion mail and similarly routine materials are in green-labeled "General" folders. Click on the names of the primary Subject File categories below to see detailed finding aids describing each of the subcategories.
Series Description and Container List
Container List
Collection Overview
Scope and Content Note
The White House Central Files (WHCF) documents all aspects of the administration of President Gerald R. Ford. The Subject File is the location for most substantive WHCF material and, through cross-references, is the path of access to material in related files. It includes: memoranda, letters, telegrams, reports, cables, publications, press releases, speeches, lists, drafts, clippings, briefing papers, schedules, invitations, courtesy messages, and public opinion mail.
This material is the product of the White House, Domestic Council and National Security Council staffs. In addition to material prepared by them, it includes related communications from: officials at all levels and branches of Federal, state and local government; political advisers and organizations; spokesmen for or members of various economic, political, ethnic, religious, and professional groups; foreign officials; and, not least, the general public.
Content reflects political, policy, administrative, personnel, and public relations concerns; including those domestic and foreign, significant and insignificant.
Details
970 linear feet (approximately 1,794,000 pages)
Gerald R. Ford
Access
Possibly Restricted.
Access to these archival materials may be restricted. Some material may have been removed due to donor or other restricions.
Copyright
Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. In addition, Mr. Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyright interest in any other of his writings that might be included in this collection. The copyright interest to materials written or produced by other individuals or organizations is presumed to remain with them.