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Gerald Ford joined this Grand Rapids firm upon discharge from the Navy in 1946. Most of the collection is Ford's correspondence with friend Philip Buchen and others in the firm, 1945-52. The correspondence, most concerning routine matters, was donated by a successor firm. Also included is a 1998 history of Law, Weathers & Richardson - the successor firm - that includes information on the work of both Ford and Buchen with the firm.
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Primarily correspondence prepared by Calkins documenting his contacts with local, state, and national Republican Party officials and members of the general public.
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Files concerning various domestic and a few foreign policy issues, the 1976 campaign, the operation of the press office, and domestic and foreign press guidance. Includes Carlson's minutes of Cabinet meetings and presidential meetings with congressional leaders and others.
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Materials concerning the operation of the White House Advance Office and its logistical planning for foreign and domestic Presidential and First Family trips.
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Miscellaneous very small collections of papers, audiovisual media and/or artifacts donated by various individuals. The collections were solicited by Ford Library staff, obtained by the design firm of Staples & Charles in the course of planning exhibits for the Ford Museum, or received at the Ford Library unsolicited. Audiovisual materials were transferred to the audiovisual department and objects were transferred to the Ford Museum. Collections are arranged in order of receipt. New collections are added as they are received and processed.
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Domestic Council administrative staff tracked memoranda, letters, and enrolled bills by computer after November 1975. Document inventories (print-outs) in box 1 provide awkward access to succeeding boxes of material arranged by control number. Much of this material is duplicated in collections of Domestic Council staff.
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Ford's campaigns, voting record, bill sponsorship, speeches, newsletters, and press releases are documented, 1948-73. Ford's work on House committees to 1965, and as Minority Leader thereafter, is thinly documented with the exception of his membership on the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (Warren Commission). The Ford office routinely destroyed many non-current files until 1964, when the University of Michigan approached Ford about the archival deposit of the papers now at the Ford Library. As a result, constituent and interspersed political…
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Working files of the staff of President Ford's 1976 presidential election campaign committee, including materials on politics, finances, legal matters, public opinion polls, advertising, press relations, and appeals to specific interest groups or segments of the population. Although the collection contains significant materials on numerous aspects of the campaign, the records are by no means complete as several senior staff members apparently removed files upon their departure from the Committee. The files of the office of the treasurer remain unprocessed.
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Fragmentary files and items removed from scrapbooks compiled by the Social Secretary which partially document selected luncheons, dinners, and other social events hosted by the President and his family. Items unique to this collection include the unpublished manuscripts for a book and article on White House social planning and an article on Christmas at the White House.
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Correspondence concerning the 1976 election, especially presidential messages, telegrams, candidate endorsements, and fundraising.