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Subject and chronological files concerning his work on the development of domestic policy in the area of drug abuse, privacy, small and minority businesses, housing and urban affairs, Olympic sports, the Postal Service, telecommunications policy, regulatory reform, and legal matters.
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This collection consists of audiocassettes and transcripts of interviews of former President Gerald R. Ford, Ford White House staff, agency officials, and congressmen. Yanek Mieczkowski conducted the interviews in support of his scholarly works, including his book, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s. The interviews focus heavily on Gerald Ford’s response to the economic and energy crises of the 1970s, relations with Congress, 1975 State of the Union Address, and the 1976 Presidential campaign.
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Materials primarily concerning long-range planning studies on Social Security financing and welfare reform with smaller amounts on a variety of other domestic issues, federal support for EXPO '81 in California, and Domestic Council administration.
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Material compiled by Porter and her assistant during the scheduling of activities and domestic trips for Mrs. Ford and the Ford children. Included are files concerning invitations extended to Betty Ford and the Ford children, presidential primary campaign activity, honorary affiliations, and scenarios and fact sheets on First Family activities.
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This collection consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, briefing material, quotes, newspaper articles, fact sheets, polling research, and newsletters related to the 1976 Presidential Campaign. Much of the material consists of letters from the public requesting information on President Ford's positions on issues, and the responses of the President Ford Committee Answer Desk to those letters. Also included is a series of Presidential Clemency Board reports documenting performance measurement and analyzing the process of deciding cases of individuals who applied for clemency.
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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…