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Interviews with 20 Ford administration staff, including Richard Cheney, Max Friedersdorf, Robert Hartmann, Jerry Jones, W. Allen Moore, Donald Ogilvie, Roger Porter, Michael Raoul-Duval and Glenn Schleede. The interviews provided information for a joint research project on enrolled bill processing, legislative clearance and annual programming over several presidential administrations.
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The collection contains audiotapes and transcripts of Cannon’s interviews with President Gerald R. Ford, First Lady Betty Ford, White House and congressional staff members, administration officials, members of Congress, and Ford friends. It also contains Cannon’s notes taken while reading transcripts of Trevor Armbrister’s 1977 interviews with President Ford and a few additional documents and notes. The material was used in the writing of Cannon’s 1994 book Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History.
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The collection includes material on Ford's congressional career and Vice Presidential confirmation; miscellaneous domestic and foreign policy issues; scheduling, travel and speeches; office organization; and constituent casework and public opinion mail. However, material on the Watergate affair and relations with the Nixon White House is scattered, and material on the Presidential transition is very limited.
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This collection consists of condolence messages sent to Betty Ford and family following the death of President Gerald R. Ford.
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Records documenting the formation and functions of American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. (ACCL). The ACCL was a national pro-life organization formed after the 1973 Supreme Court decisions legalizing abortion. In addition, papers regarding the National Right to Life Committee and the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life are housed within the collection. This finding aid describes those portions of the collection that have been fully arranged and described by the Ford Library. Approximately 25 linear feet remain unprocessed and unavailable to research.
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Materials on the activities of the Legislative Interdepartmental Group (LIG), which coordinated congressional liaison activities on foreign affairs and defense matters for the White House, NSC, CIA, and the Departments of State, Justice, and Defense. The files for many LIG meetings contain both briefing papers and minutes or a record of decisions. The bulk of the collection dates from 1971 and 1972, with fewer meetings and less documentation for later periods.
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Materials on her work as Domestic Council Assistant Director on such topics as abortion, problems of the aging and the handicapped, child welfare, health care, and medical research. Massengale also handled historic preservation, fine arts, and other cultural issues.
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Materials relating to McLennan’s activities as director of the National Volunteer Desk of People for Ford during the 1976 general election campaign. The collection consists of her overview, assessment, and final statistical reporting on the National Volunteer Desk, as well as a portion of the volunteer contact information that the program compiled.
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Michael H. Moskow was a federal government official with the Council of Economic Advisers, Department of Labor, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Council on Wage and Price Stability, and Office of U.S. Trade Representative. The collection contains materials from economist Moskow’s work as a senior official in several departments and agencies during the Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush administrations. They concern such topics as collective bargaining, labor disputes, employment, economic policies, wage and price policies, and U.S. trade.
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Substantive materials on foreign policy and defense issues for thirty countries ranging geographically from Morocco to Saudi Arabia to India. The materials provide information about such topics as military and economic assistance, regional alliances, territorial disputes, Soviet interests and activities, the Middle East peace negotiations, the Arab economic boycott of companies trading with Israel, US security interests in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the United Nations, atomic energy, oil, terrorism, and human rights. Robert B. Oakley headed this…