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This collection consists of a complete set of construction drawings for Gerald and Betty Ford's post-Presidential home in Rancho Mirage, CA. The drawings include site plans, elevations, and construction details, and covers structural, mechanical, electrical, landscape, and swimming pool elements. The home was designed for the Fords by the Los Angeles firm Welton Becket Associates. Edward Randall was the swimming pool sub-contractor for the project.
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The collection documents a significant portion of his activities as Domestic Council associate director working on energy, environmental and transportation matters; his work on selected political activities in 1976, especially the preparation of the 1976 Republican Party platform; and his work as executive director of the Intelligence Coordinating Group. A separate collection of Raoul-Duval personal papers relating to many of the same topics is also available in the Library.
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This case file consist of the FBI's public release / sanitized version of records compiled in connection with its background investigation of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for the position of Vice President, including summary material from applicant-type investigations of Rockefeller conducted in 1950, 1952, and 1969. Included are interview reports and summaries, memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, financial statements and news clippings.
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The Press Advance Office handled logistical planning and support for media covering the President's foreign and domestic trips. A small subject file includes useful folders on the 1976 campaign and advance procedures. Case files for foreign trips are occasionally substantive. Domestic trip files are very routine with rare exceptions, e.g. New Hampshire, 1976.
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Research interviews conducted by Rozell while writing The Press and the Ford Presidency (The University of Michigan Press, 1992). The interviews focus on President Ford's media image, public relations strategies, and press relations. The interviewees include President Ford, Counsellor Robert Hartmann, and Press Secretaries Jerald terHorst and Ron Nessen. Also interviewed were White House Deputy Press Secretaries John G. Carlson, William Greener, and Gerald Warren; Assistant Press Secretaries John W. "Bill" Roberts, Larry Speakes, and Louis M. Thompson, Jr.; and Margita White (Assistant Press…
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This collection contains correspondence, calendars, schedules, schedule proposals, briefing papers, Cabinet meeting minutes, foreign travel requests, and publications compiled or created by Presidential Scheduling office staff that document Scheduling Office operations and the activities of the President, First Family, Vice President, Cabinet, and political appointees.
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Fairly routine files concerning various foreign policy issues, President Ford's trips abroad, visits of heads of foreign governments, and operation of the White House press office. Also includes more substantive briefing materials for Ford's meetings with heads of foreign governments, but these are currently security classified and closed.
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Audio tapes and photocopies of interview transcripts and notes relating to the Mayaguez incident.The bulk of the material concerns interviews with Mayaguez crew conducted by Donald O'Hare of Sea-Land Service, Inc., in the days following their release.The collection also contains notebooks prepared by Roy Rowan while conducting research for his book Four Days of the Mayaguez (apparently including his own interviews with Mayaguez crew), as well as possible chapter drafts.
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A small collection of materials concerning his Domestic Council work on labor, education and veterans affairs and some items on his work with the Presidential Advisory Committee on Refugees assisting with the resettlement of Indochina refugees.
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Materials relating to advance work for members of the First Family including briefing books, correspondence, memoranda, notes, schedules, Secret Service deployment diagrams, fact sheets, airport and venue schema, seating arrangements, event brochures and tourist information, newspaper clippings, thank you notes, press releases, and State Department telegrams.It also includes material relating to a "homestate reception" at the Capitol Hill Club for Vice President Ford on the evening of his swearing-in on December 6, 1973.