Library holdings include more than 25 million pages of documents, about 450,000 photographs, and thousands of audiotapes, videotapes, and films (see our online guide for descriptions and finding aids). The Library continues to digitize to make more of this massive collection available to researchers via the Internet. The links below point to digitized documents and audiovisual materials on our site and also some that appear elsewhere on the web. They are organized into the following categories:
- Presidency - General
- Presidency - Foreign Affairs and National Security
- Presidency - Domestic Affairs and Politics
- President and Mrs. Ford's Early Lives
- Congressional Years
- Vice Presidency
- Post-White House Years
- President Ford's Daily Diary, 1974-77
- Public Papers of the Presidents (American Presidency Project site - text of speeches, press conferences and remarks)
- Cabinet Meeting Minutes, 1974-76
- Gerald R. Ford speeches and writings (selected items)
- Betty Ford Speeches (selected items)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
- National Archives Archival Research Catalog (includes Ford Library documents and photos - select Search Options, then Digital Copies, then Advanced Search and specify Textual Records or Photographs as the Type of Archival Materials and the Ford Library as the Location of Archival Materials.)
- Media Photo Kit - President Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Media Photo Kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Selected White House Photographs
- Selected photographs and audio/video files (Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation site - see Media Gallery)
Presidency - Foreign Affairs and National Security
(see also Presidency - General)
- Foreign Affairs/National Security Memoranda of Presidential Conversations, 1973-77
- National Security Council Meeting Minutes, 1974-77
- National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda, 1974-77
- Transcripts of Henry Kissinger Telephone Conversations
(Department of State site - click on Kissinger Transcripts and use the Search box at the bottom) - Ford Administration Department of State Telegrams (National Archives site)
- Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Volumes for the Ford Presidency (Department of State site)
- Vladivostok Arms Control Summit, November 1974 (selected dcouments)
- Vietnam War (selected documents)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes an exhibit on the closing weeks of the Vietnam War)
- "A Day in the Life of a President" Exhibit (April 28, 1975 - the day Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces)
- Intelligence reforms and investigations (selected documents)
- Selected White House Photographs (see Foreign Affairs sections)
- Entertaining Royalty: The State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Presidency - Domestic Affairs and Politics
(see also Presidency - General)
- Arthur Burns Journals/Diary (transcription), 1969-74
- Benton Becker memo on history and background of Nixon pardon
- Swine flu immunization program, 1976 (selected documents)
- 1976 presidential campaign (selected documents)
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes an exhibit on President Ford and the Supreme Court)
President and Mrs. Ford's Early Lives
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
- Media Photo Kit - Young Jerry Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Media Photo Kit - Young Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Gerald and Betty Ford Historical Photographs (childhood through Vice Presidency)
- Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Press Conference Published Transcripts ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-1968 (Dirksen Congressional Center site - see also nine selected audio files, with transcripts and press releases)
- Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Meeting Minutes, 1965-1968
(Dirksen Congressional Center site) - Ford Remarks Concerning the Impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, April 15, 1970
- Media Photo Kit - Congressional Years (includes high resolution photographs)
- Media Photo Kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Gerald and Betty Ford Historical Photographs
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
- Remarks After Taking the Oath of Office as Vice President, December 6, 1973
- Gerald and Betty Ford Historical Photographs
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (Presidential Timeline site - includes a Gerald Ford timeline with selected documents and photographs)
- Selected Post-Presidential Speeches and Writings
- Media Photo Kit - President Ford (includes high resolution photographs)
- Media Photo Kit - Betty Ford (includes high resolution photographs)