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This collection consists of printed material and memorabilia from assorted presidential campaigns from 1896 to 2008.
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Transcript-like records, and the notes from which they were prepared, of President Nixon’s and President Ford’s conversations with heads of state and foreign officials, senior intelligence and national security officials, American ambassadors, Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other distinguished foreign and American visitors. The memoranda of conversations (memcons) cover a wide variety of foreign affairs and national security topics, including the Middle East peace process, East-West relations, NATO and Europe, normalization of relations with the People’s Republic of China,…
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A small series concerns contingency planning for possible developments in several countries (especially Chile, Peru, Portugal, and Spain). A larger series concerns Security Assistance during Fiscal Year 1974, primarily budget planning, budget decisions, and legislation (authorizations and appropriations). All documents in the latter series date from the Nixon administration.
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Letters from young Gerald Ford to Frederica Pantlind, a hometown friend and neighbor. Also included are Pantlind’s newspaper clippings on University of Michigan football and on Gamma Delta Tau high school sorority, invitations to social events, and date books. The letters reveal much about Gerald Ford’s life as a college student and athlete and, to a lesser extent, his work as an assistant coach at Yale University. Other materials concern Ms. Pantlind’s social life in Grand Rapids and visits to Ann Arbor. Included are occasional items mentioning Ford’s future wife Betty…
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The Daily Diary is a minute-by-minute log of President Ford's official and social activities, noting attendees at meetings and persons to whom he spoke by telephone, and where and when these contacts took place. Little on the substance of meetings and calls appears in the collection, however. The collection includes multiple copies of the typescript Diary, source materials used in its compilation, administrative files of the compilers, an electronic version created by scanning it into a full‑text searchable database, and a selected name and geographic index.
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This collection documents Robert Teeter’s role as a leader in survey research and his work as a key campaign strategist for Republican presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial candidates, including Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign, Gerald Ford’s 1976 campaign, and George H. W. Bush’s 1992 re-election campaign (of which he was the national chairman). It also documents his work for Market Opinion Research and Coldwater Corporation, including public opinion surveys conducted for NBC News/The Wall Street Journal, The Council for Excellence in Government, and the Educational…
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Materials documenting Anderson's activities as convention director for the President Ford Committee.President Ford's annotated original reading copy of his nomination acceptance speech to the Republican National Convention is the collection highlight. Other files concern convention scheduling, communications, staff assignments, budget, security, space allocation, and liaison with the White House staff and the Republican National Committee.
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The White House Budget Files are a fragmentary collection of materials relating to White House Office budget and appropriations hearings for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. The collection primarily documents costs of White House Office staff.
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Detailed logs and abstracts of incoming congressional mail plus carbon copies of outgoing correspondence arranged alphabetically by the name of the Representative or Senator.
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Records related to the disposition of gifts exchanged between members of the First Family and foreign and domestic donors. Included are a head of state gift exchange register, declarations of receipt, gift lists, card catalogs, letters of acknowledgement, and packing lists.