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BYRON M. "RED" CAVANEY FILES, (1969-73) 1974-77 Extent 77 linear feet (ca. 142,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Advance Office was tasked with visiting foreign and domestic sites a few weeks before scheduled Presidential trips in order to plan and coordinate logistical matters. These responsibilities encompassed creating the Air Force One manifest, designating hotel room and banquet seating assignments, diagramming site locations, organizing and vetting proposed schedules through protocol …
SPENCER JOHNSON FILES, 1976-77 Extent 5.2 linear feet (ca. 10,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Johnson was appointed to the Domestic Council in February 1976 as Associate Director for Health, Social Security, and Welfare, remaining until the end of the Ford Administration. He replaced Arthur F. Quern who became Deputy Director for Policy and Planning. Johnson's primary responsibilities were in health issues. He assisted in the formulation of policy and as White House liaison with government agencies and …
JOHN C. VICKERMAN FILES, 1974-77 Extent 15.2 linear feet (ca. 30,400 pages) Scope and Content Note John C. Vickerman joined the White House staff in 1973. Early in the Ford administration he served as Executive Assistant to Counsellor Anne Armstrong and as Executive Secretary of the Federal Property Council. He was appointed to the Office of Public Liaison as Director for Business and Trade Associations on December 18, 1974. In this position he reported directly to William J. Baroody, Jr., Assistant to the …
DOMESTIC COUNCIL COMPUTER OFFICE FILES, 1975-76 Extent 13.6 linear feet (ca. 27,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Computer Office provided the Domestic Council staff with correspondence control, priority tracking, enrolled bill status and coordination, along with the White House staff, of Presidential - Congressional mail. In the fall of 1975, the Council began to organize its paperwork by computer. After January 1976, the computer functioned to control correspondence and track the status of enrolled …
JERALD F. TERHORST FILES, 1974 Extent 1.2 linear feet (ca. 2,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Jerald terHorst was named Press Secretary to the President on August 9, 1974, the day Gerald R. Ford became the 38th President of the United States. He was Ford's first presidential appointment. TerHorst was a Michigan newspaperman who had covered Ford's political career since the 1948 Congressional race. As Press Secretary to President Ford, terHorst was responsible for conveying information on the President's …
SARAH C. MASSENGALE FILES, 1974-77 Extent 14.8 linear feet (ca. 29,600 pages) Scope and Content Note Sarah C. Massengale, a former management analyst for a Washington, D.C. consultant firm, joined the Domestic Council in June 1975 as assistant director for health, social security and welfare, replacing Pamela Needham. After April 1976, when assistant director for consumer and cultural affairs Kathleen A. Ryan resigned, Massengale also coordinated cultural affairs, which comprised the arts, humanities and …
CHARLES H. McCALL FILES, 1974-77 Extent 89 linear feet (ca. 178,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The McCall files document the work of editorial staff researchers throughout the Ford administration. The bulk of the file is material drawn together or created during Agnes Waldron's tenure as director of research from August 1974 to June 1976, subsequently inherited and augmented by Charles McCall. McCall joined the White House staff as a consultant to assist Waldron with the research office operation in May …
PAUL A. MILTICH FILES, 1974-75 Extent 1 linear foot (ca. 2,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Paul Miltich, Gerald Ford's press secretary since 1966, was named assistant press secretary to the President in August 1974. Under Jerald terHorst, Miltich was responsible for supervising the correspondence section of the Press Office; producing position papers which were then distributed to newspapers, television and radio stations throughout the country; channeling opinion- editorial (Op-Ed) pieces written by …
GWEN A. ANDERSON FILES, 1974-77 Extent 11.6 linear feet (ca. 23,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Gwen A. Anderson, Washington State Republican Party official and former Republican National Committeewoman, joined Vice President Ford's staff in January 1974. In this capacity her major duties were to coordinate Ford's appearances at political events and fundraisers; to act as liaison with Republican groups; and to handle requests for messages, photographs and auction items. Upon Ford's succession to the …
BARRY N. ROTH FILES, 1973-1977 Extent 42.8 linear feet (ca. 85,600 pages) Scope and Content Note When Barry Roth joined Gerald Ford’s vice presidential staff in January 1974, he was only twenty-four years old and had yet to complete his law degree. In spite of his youth, he had already worked as a legal assistant to the General Counsel of the General Services Administration (GSA.) William Casselman. When Casselman became General Counsel to Vice President Ford, he brought Roth along as his …
GEOFFREY C. SHEPARD FILES, 1974-75 Extent 3.2 linear feet (ca. 6,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Geoffrey Shepard served during the Nixon administration and a portion of the Ford administration as Domestic Council associate director primarily handling general government issues requiring liaison with the Justice Department, especially campaign finance reform, civil rights, drug abuse law enforcement, and Vietnam War amnesty. The materials described consist largely of files produced and accumulated by …
JAMES B. SHUMAN FILES, 1974-76 Extent 48 linear feet (ca. 96,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The James B. Shuman files cover his work as editor of both the President's news summary and Presidential briefing books for meetings with the news media from April 1975 to July 1976. Also included are earlier news summaries and briefing books which he inherited from predecessors. The news summary was a compilation and distillation of printed and electronic media news articles, distributed daily to the President …
RICHARD PARSONS FILES, 1974-77 Extent 9.7 linear feet (ca. 19,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Richard D. Parsons was a native of New York City and a 1971 graduate of Union University's Albany Law School. Following law school he served as an assistant counsel to Governor Nelson Rockefeller and, commencing in 1973, as First Assistant Counsel. In 1975, soon after Rockefeller's confirmation as Vice President, Parsons became Deputy Counsel to the Vice President. After the end of the Ford administration, …
WHITE HOUSE CENTRAL FILES BULK MAIL FILE, 1974-77 Extent 509.8 linear feet linear feet (ca. 305,880 pages) Scope and Content Note RELATED MATERIALS Samples of public mail were filed in the White House Central Files (WHCF) Subject File "General" folders. Weekly public mail tabulations and summaries are located in WHCF Subject File subcategory WH 4-1 and in the Robert Hartmann Papers, boxes 139 - 144. A sample of received telegraphs can be found in the collection White House Telegraph and Travel Section: …
ROBERT K. WOLTHUIS FILES, 1974-77 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The Robert Wolthuis files span the period November 1974 to January 1977. They document Wolthuis' work in the White House Congressional Relations Office. Wolthuis, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs and administrative assistant to Sen. Wallace Bennett of Utah, joined the White House staff on January 1, 1975. Although his title changed several times, his primary responsibility …
National Security Adviser. Legislative Interdepartmental Group Files, 1971-1972 (1976) Extent 1.2 linear feet (ca. 2,400 pages) Scope and Content Note The Legislative Interdepartmental Group Files is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files and an explanation of the designations “Presidential” and “Institutional” are provided in Appendix A . The role of the Legislative Interdepartmental Group (LIG) was to …
National Security Adviser. Presidential Subject File, 1974-1977 Extent 9.6 linear feet (ca. 19,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Presidential Subject File is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files and an explanation of the designations “Presidential” and “Institutional” are provided in Appendix A . This collection contains the originals of many documents addressed to President Ford and to National …
National Security Adviser. Trip Cables of Brent Scowcroft, 1975-77 Extent 2.5 linear feet (ca. 3,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The "Trip Cables of Brent Scowcroft" is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files and an explanation of the designations “Presidential” and “Institutional” are provided in Appendix A . These files are for trips on which National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft accompanied the …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR NSC EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS STAFF: FILES, 1969-1977 Extent 16.8 linear feet (ca. 33,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The "NSC East Asian and Pacific Affairs Staff Files" is a subcollection of the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance of the Ford Library's National Security Adviser Files is described in Appendix A . The NSC East Asia and Pacific staff provided foreign policy support to the President, Vice President, and National Security Adviser on bilateral and …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. BACKCHANNEL MESSAGES, 1974-77 Extent 4.0 linear feet (ca. 8000 pages) Scope and Content Note MOST OF THIS COLLECTION IS UNPROCESSED AND CLOSED TO RESEARCH. THE CONTAINER LIST SHOWS WHAT IS CURRENTLY OPEN. Record Type Textual Access Only a portion of this collection has been processed and opened to research. The rest of the collection is still unprocessed and closed. In the processed portions, some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of …