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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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The collection consists of a single chronological sequence of weekly briefing papers produced by the Domestic Council staff. The focus is on issues in the policy areas in which Schleede worked (natural resources, environmental protection and energy), but some concern such topics as housing and community development, human resources, crime and justice, and intergovernmental relations.
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This collection contains materials related to legal determinations and advice given within the Treasury Department and White House on such topics as Watergate, General Revenue Sharing Program, Emergency Loan Guarantee Program, railway improvement, regulatory reform, constitutional or statutory powers of the President, conflict of interest rules, standards of conduct, political restrictions, and a variety of domestic and foreign policy issues involving legal questions.
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Shiskin was a leader in the development of modern statistical methods for national economic measurement and forecasting. His books, articles, speeches, and testimony form the core of this collection.
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Materials concerning Frederick T. Steeper's work as a Michigan-based political analyst and career in survey research and analysis for Republican Presidential, senatorial, and gubernatorial candidates and campaign organizations. The collection contains materials related to Steeper's work for the Republican National Committee, George H.W. Bush's 1992 and 1996 Presidential campaigns, George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 Presidential campaigns, and various state campaigns.
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Papers documenting Stever's academic and governmental career, professional affiliations, and private sector consulting in the fields of aviation, aeronautics, outer space, engineering, and technology development. Included is material on such topics as engineering education, professional aeronautical and engineering societies, ballistic missile defense, transfer of technology to developing countries, Air Force science, and the U.S. space program.