December 7, 2007
The Library has opened to research the J. Stanley
Pottinger Papers (56 feet). Pottinger directed
civil rights matters for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
(1970-1973), and the Department of Justice (1973-1977) during the Nixon and
Ford administrations. The collection documents the investigation and
enforcement of various civil rights issues, including: desegregation, busing,
women’s rights, affirmative action, education, employment, government
surveillance, Kent State, and Wounded Knee. Access
to the materials requires advance consultation with an archivist before a visit
to the Library in order to request that specific folders be added to the Library’s review-for-access
queue. For more information and the container listing see the collection finding
aid.
November 16, 2007
The Library announced the list of recipients of Gerald
R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants from the fall meeting of
the grants screening committee.
November 5, 2007
The Library has opened to research an additional series of the William
J. Baroody Papers. This series concerns White House briefings arranged by the Office
of Public Liaison for associations and groups during the Ford administration.
Access to the materials requires advance consultation with an archivist before
a visit to the Library in order to request that specific folders be added to
the Library’s review-for-access
queue. For a container listing see the collection finding
aid.
July 6, 2007
The Library has opened four additional collections to research. Three of them
require advance consultation with an archivist before a visit to the Library
in order to request that specific folders be added to the Library’s review-for-access
queue.
These collections are the William
J. Baroody Papers (the series
concerning his work as an aide to Congressman and Secretary of Defense Melvin
Laird and as head of the White House Office of Public Liaison in the Nixon
and Ford administrations), the Max Friedersdorf Papers (primarily concerning
his work as head of the Congressional Relations Office in the Ford White House),
and the Roland Elliott
Files (concerning his work as director of the White
House Correspondence Office in the Ford White House).
In addition the Library has opened the Clifford
Ericson Scrapbook on the American
Revolution Bicentennial. This scrapbook contains letters from President Ford
and the governor of each state concerning the meaning and importance of the
Bicentennial.
June 16, 2007
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce that Vanessa P.
Walker has been chosen as the 2007 winner of the Gerald
R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter. Ms. Walker
is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is completing
her doctoral dissertation: Ambivalent
Allies: Advocates, Diplomats, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America. She
is investigating how human rights became a force in foreign policy by focusing
on the relationship between advocacy and policies/diplomacy in the 1970s. More
specifically, she examines how this relationship influenced and shaped U.S.
diplomacy with Latin America by analyzing several non-governmental organizations
and their relationships with Congress and the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations
during a series of human rights crisis with Chile and Argentina. See additional
information about this award.
May 22, 2007
The Library announced the list of recipients of Gerald
R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants from the spring meeting of the grants
screening committee.
May 1, 2007
Deadline for the "Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award (Dissertation
Award) in Honor of Robert Teeter." For more information about the Award
contact Joshua Cochran.
April 16, 2007
The Library has opened six additional document calendars from
the Department of Defense Historical Project Files in the Melvin Laird Papers.
These calendars concern chemical weapons and biological research (including
the storage of chemical weapons in West Germany and Okinawa), procurement of
the MK-48 torpedo and DD-963 Navy ships, and Navy shipbuilding. With this opening,
all of the calendars from the DOD Historical Project Files are now available
to researchers. Information in the calendars makes it is possible for researchers
to request Mandatory Reviews for specific documents that have not yet been
reviewed for declassification.
March
15, 2007
Deadline
for
the Gerald
R. Ford
Foundation
Research
Travel
Grants.
March 6, 2007
The Library has declassified and opened many of the documents in the POW/MIA
file in boxes C19 and C20 of the Melvin Laird Papers.
The materials concern attempts to learn more about the fate of American military
personnel missing in Southeast Asia, interactions with the families of MIAs
and POWs, U.S. attempts to secure the release of POWs, plans for
the handling of released POWs, and the debriefing of those released.
In addition, the Library has opened seven additional document calendars from
the Department of Defense Historical Project Files in the Laird Papers. These
calendars concern Japan, Japan - Okinawa, MIRV, MIRV - A-X/Close Air Support,
People's Republic of China, Republic of China, and Safeguard Antiballistic
Missile. Information in the calendars makes it is possible for researchers
to request Mandatory Reviews for specific documents in the Historical Project
Files.
February 14, 2007
The Library processed and opened two series from the National
Security Adviser. NSC International Economic Affairs Staff: Files, (1973)
1975-1976.
The two subject files in the collection ("Presidential Subject File" and
"Institutional Subject File") are now available for research. They
contain materials accumulated by NSC senior staff member Robert Hormats and
his assistants and concern such topics as economic relations with specific
countries, international economic summits, trade, foreign investment, energy,
oil prices, OPEC, food aid, grain sales, Maritime affairs, and foreign aid.
Two other series in the collection - chronological files for Hormats
and his assistant Timothy Deal - are still unprocessed and not open to research.
For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
January
11,
2007
The
Library
announced
the list
of
recipients of
Gerald
R.
Ford
Foundation
Research
Travel
Grants
from
the
fall
meeting
of
the
grants
screening
committee.