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ROBERT HARTMANN FILES, 1974-77 Extent 38.4 linear feet (ca. 76,800 pages) Scope and Content Note Discussed below under separate headings are: Robert Hartmann's role in the Ford White House, the scope and content of the Hartmann files, and related collections at the Ford Library. Hartmann's Role in the Ford White House Gerald R. Ford appointed his long-time aide Robert Hartmann as Counsellor to the President (with Cabinet status) as one of the first official acts of his Presidency. In this position …
WARREN K. HENDRIKS, JR. Director, Office of Presidential Spokesmen: Files , (1974) 1975-76 Extent 3.2 linear feet (ca. 6,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Beginning in January 1976, Hendriks served as Director of the Presidential Spokesmen’s Office. This office handled event invitations that the President had to decline, but which were considered important enough that the administration should be represented at the event. The office coordinated the schedules of administration spokesmen such as Cabinet …
A. JAMES REICHLEY FILES, 1976 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The files of James Reichley cover the period May-October 1976 when he served as a political consultant for White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney. A journalist with practical experience in the political arena, Reichley assisted Cheney with President Ford's primary and general election campaigns. His broad responsibility was to consider long range goals and policies, and to generate new ideas. In particular, …
KATHLEEN RYAN CHRONOLOGICAL FILE, 1975-76 Extent 0.4 linear feet (ca. 400 pages) Scope and Content Note Kathleen Ryan joined the Domestic Council staff in April 1975 as Assistant Director for General Government under Associate Director Glenn Schleede. General Government included energy and science, culture and consumer affairs. Ryan emphasized the latter two and, in early 1976, her title was changed to Assistant Director for Consumer and Cultural Affairs to more accurately reflect her duties. She resigned …
REYNALDO P. MADURO FILES, 1976 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note Reynaldo Maduro served as Deputy Special Assistant for Hispanic Affairs in the final months of the Ford Administration, providing a liaison with the Cuban and Puerto Rican communities during the campaign. The Maduro files, which date almost exclusively from September and October 1976, document Maduro's liaison work with the Hispanic Community, particularly his efforts to set up meetings between President Ford and …
JOHN MARSH FILES, 1974-77 Extent 50.2 linear feet (ca. 100,400 pages) Scope and Content Note John O. "Jack" Marsh served in Congress with Gerald Ford from 1963 to 1971. Although a Democrat, his conservative political philosophy led President Richard Nixon to appoint him Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs in 1972. He later joined Vice President Ford's staff as an advisor on defense and foreign affairs matters. When Gerald Ford became President in August 1974, he appointed Marsh as a …
STEPHEN G. McCONAHEY FILES, 1975-77 Extent 16.8 linear feet (ca. 33,600 pages) Scope and Content Note Stephen McConahey joined the White House staff on September 7, 1975 as the Domestic Council's Associate Director for Transportation. He later was named Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs on January 28, 1976, inheriting the responsibilities of Associate Director James H. Falk, who had resigned at the end of 1975. The McConahey files consist of materials accumulated by him …
EDWARD SCHMULTS FILES, 1974-77 Extent 15.6 linear feet (ca. 31,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Edward C. Schmults files, 1974-77, include materials created or received by Schmults and his two predecessors, Philip E. Areeda and Roderick M. Hills.Schmults had the title Deputy Counsel to the President while Areeda and Hills were Counsel to the President. The three had virtually the same duties and responsibilities and served successively as the primary assistant to Philip Buchen, head of the Counsel's …
FREDERIC W. SLIGHT FILES, (1969-73) 1974-77 Extent 9.7 linear feet (approximately 19,400 pages) Scope and Content Note This collection contains letters, memoranda, published articles and drafts, clippings, publications, planning calendars, and press releases compiled by Frederic Slight during his service as staff assistant to Counsellor to the President Anne Armstrong and as a special assistant in the Office of Communications. The files contain very few documents from the period Slight served in the Office …
PRESIDENT'S PAPERWORK LOGS, 1974-77 Extent 1.3 linear feet (ca. 2,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The presidential paperwork logs (daily item by item listings of material crossing the President's desk) were compiled in the office of the Staff Secretary. That office coordinated the routine flow of paperwork to and from the President. Log entries were primarily made by staff assistant Dianna Gwin through early June 1975 and thereafter by Trudy Fry, head of the Special Files Unit. The logs appear to be …
PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS: READING COPIES, 1974-77 Extent 16.8 linear feet (ca. 33,600 pages) Scope and Content Note This file consists almost entirely of the reading copies of President Ford's 1,051 public messages. They are arranged chronologically. Related and supporting materials appear occasionally and include preliminary drafts and, less frequently, background material. In addition to speeches there are veto messages, legislative messages to Congress, statements accompanying bill signing, …
GERALD L. WARREN FILES, 1974-75 (1984) Extent 1.0 linear feet (ca. 2,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The Gerald Warren Papers concern his work as Deputy Press Secretary and Director of the White House Communications Office between August 1974 and August 1975. He joined the White House Communications Office in 1969 as Deputy Press Secretary to Ron Ziegler in the Nixon administration, often delivering the daily press briefings as the Watergate scandal intensified in 1974. Following the resignation of …
BIRGE S. WATKINS FILES, 1974-77 Extent 4.0 linear feet (ca. 8,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Birge S. Watkins, a 1971 graduate of Alma College, began working for L. William Seidman in 1972 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In September 1974, he volunteered to aid Seidman with the Economic Summit and was then appointed to Seidman's office as staff assistant for scheduling. As staff assistant, Watkins drafted replies to requests for appointments, appearances and White House tours. He also drafted responses to …
I. DAVID WHEAT, JR., FILES, 1974-75 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note David Wheat joined the White House Staff in March 1973, as assistant to Anne Armstrong, Counsellor to the President. Although Armstrong departed the White House in December 1974, Wheat remained through May 1975 and provided assistance to the Economic Policy Board staff. The majority of his files concern his work for Anne Armstrong. As staff assistant, Wheat aided Armstrong on routine office correspondence; …
WHITE HOUSE USHER'S OFFICE FILES, 1974-77 Extent 3.3 linear feet (approximately 1,925 pages) Scope and Content Note RELATED MATERIALS (October 2015) Additional material related to the Executive Residence are found primarily in the White House Central Files Subject File, category WH (White House), as well as FG-100 (Committee for the Preservation of the White House) and FG-180 (National Park Foundation) categories. Materials pertaining to the swimming pool specifically can be found in the John Stiles and …
WHITE HOUSE TELEGRAPH & TRAVEL SECTION: SAMPLE OF TELEGRAMS, 1974-77 Extent 1.5 linear feet (ca. 3,000 pages) Scope and Content Note As a permanent operating unit of the Office of the Chief Executive Clerk [ 1 ], the White House Telegraph and Travel Section arranged travel for White House staff, assisted with travel arrangements for the White House press corps, and received and dispatched all telegrams for the White House Office. The collection has no information on these duties, but does contain a sample …
JAMES H. FALK FILES, 1974-75 (1976) Extent 14 linear feet (ca. 28,000 pages) Scope and Content Note James H. Falk joined the Domestic Council staff in March 1971 as a staff assistant to Edward Morgan, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. Falk was promoted to Associate Director in 1973 and assumed responsibility for activities associated with intergovernmental affairs, reporting directly to the director of the Domestic Council. He remained in this position until leaving the White House …
MICHAEL J. FARRELL FILES, (1969-73) 1974-77 Extent 24.8 linear feet (52,500 pages) Scope and Content Note Michael Farrell joined the White House staff on March 24, 1969, and became Director of the White House Visitors Office in 1974 during the Nixon administration, a post he held through the entire Ford administration. Most of the collection dates from the Ford administration, but includes some Nixon administration materials, most notably the group tour calendar books, going back as far as 1969. The …
National Security Adviser WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM PRESIDENTIAL DAILY BRIEFINGS, 1974-77 Extent 7.6 linear feet (ca. 6,000 pages) Scope and Content Note This collection mostly comprises White House letterhead memoranda submitted by National Security Advisers Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft to President Ford on virtually a daily basis. These highly-classified memoranda are labeled “Information Items” and are usually two to three pages in length. They contain information and analysis on developments …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. PRESIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH FOREIGN LEADERS, 1974-77 Extent 1.5 linear feet (ca. 3,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Presidential Correspondence with Foreign Leaders is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance and nature of the National Security Adviser Files as a whole are described in Appendix A . The subcollection described here concerns letters and telegrams exchanged between President Ford and leaders from sixty-four …