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National Security Adviser White House Situation Room: Former President Nixon's Intelligence Briefings 1974-1977 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Situation Room: Former President Nixon's Intelligence Briefings is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. For more information, see the Provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files. Soon after the August 9, 1974 transition, President Gerald Ford decided that former …
Milton Mitler Files, 1972-1977 Extent 16.4 linear feet (ca. 34,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Milton E. Mitler joined the White House staff as coordinator for Bicentennial matters on April 17, 1975, leaving his post as assistant to the national chairman for the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. Mitler replaced Richard Lukstat, who had resigned on April 3, 1975, and took over Lukstat's duties as liaison between the White House and the American Revolution Bicentennial …
Warren Rustand and William Nicholson Files, (1973) 1974-1977 Extent 28.6 linear feet (approximately 52,000 pages) Scope and Content Note These are the combined files of the Directors of the Presidential Scheduling Office, Warren Rustand, and his successor, William Nicholson. Rustand previously served as Vice President Ford's Director of Scheduling and Advance. A small number of documents are included in this collection from this earlier post. In November 1975, Nicholson, who was the Deputy Director of the …
L. William Seidman Files, 1974-1977 Extent 128 linear feet (ca. 256,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The L. William Seidman Files document all aspects of his work as Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs and executive director of the Economic Policy Board (EPB), 1974-77, including: the operation of the EPB, the administration's handling of specific economic issues, interactions with other agencies handling economic questions, and Seidman's trips and speeches. Described below under separate …
National Security Adviser, International Economic Affairs Staff Files, (1973) 1975-1976 Extent 5.6 linear feet (ca. 11,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The NSC International Economic Affairs Staff Files is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files and is a valuable source of materials on a wide range of international economic issues. For more information, see the Provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files . Scope and Content of the Collection Gerald Ford …
President's Daily Diary, 1974-1977 Extent 48.8 linear feet (ca. 97,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The Daily Diary is a minute‑by‑minute log of President Ford's official and social activities, noting attendees at meetings and persons to whom he spoke by telephone, and where and when these contacts took place. The sections below describe the Daily Diary, the index compiled by the Ford Library staff, the electronic version of the Diary, and related materials among the Ford Library's holdings. The Daily …
Thomas Aranda, Jr., Files, 1976-1977 Extent 5.5 linear feet (ca. 11,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Thomas Aranda was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Hispanic Affairs on July 29, 1976, three months after Fernando De Baca resigned the position. Working in the Office of Public Liaison (OPL) under the direction of William J. Baroody, Jr., Aranda provided liaison to Hispanics during the 1976 campaign and the last six months of the Ford administration. In the remaining weeks after the …
Dorothy Downton Files, (1972) 1974-1977 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Dorothy Downton joined the Ford congressional staff as a secretary in January 1967, becoming Mr. Ford's personal secretary in 1972, and remaining his personal secretary throughout the Ford Vice Presidency, the Presidency, and for three years after the Presidency in the Ford Office in California. During her tenure as secretary to the President, Downton worked in the Office of the President, reporting …
Roland L. Elliott Files, 1974-1977 Extent 17.8 linear feet (ca. 35,600 pages) Scope and Content Note Roland L. Elliott became a special assistant to President Nixon and director of the Correspondence Office in 1971. He continued those duties through the end of the Ford Administration. As director of the Correspondence Office, he supervised the flow of mail to and from the White House, including presidential correspondence. One exception was correspondence between President Ford and his friends and family, …
Bobbie Greene Kilberg Files, 1974-1977 Extent 10 linear feet (ca. 20,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Bobbie Kilberg came to the Ford White House with a background as an attorney, college administrator, Republican activist, and board member of interest groups supporting the rights of Native Americans and women. She also had served in the Nixon administration as a White House Fellow and Domestic Council staff assistant. Kilberg served as Associate Counsel to the President from July 1975 to January …
Marvin Kosters Files, 1974-1975 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Dr. Marvin H. Kosters, an economist who had been involved in the planning and analysis of wage and price controls with the Cost of Living Council during the Nixon administration, joined the Ford administration as consultant to the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in December 1974. He remained with the administration until May 1975 when he returned to a position as resident scholar at the American …
Wayne H. Valis Files, 1973-1977 Extent 6.6 linear feet (ca. 13,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Wayne Valis joined the White House staff during President Nixon's second term and performed duties in areas of public liaison, recruitment, legislative tracking and speechwriting under the direction of Melvin Laird and William J. Baroody. He continued to perform many of the same duties during the Ford administration and was given the title of Director of Planning and Research for the Office of Public Liaison …
Robert Goldwin Files, 1974-1976 Extent 2 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Long-time confidant of Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Goldwin served in the White House as Special Consultant to the President. Congressmen Rumsfeld and Gerald Ford attended conferences run by Goldwin when he was director of the Public Affairs Conference Center. In 1973 he went to Brussels to aid Rumsfeld, then Ambassador to NATO. When Rumsfeld took over from Alexander Haig as Ford's chief of staff, Goldwin accompanied …
James M. Cannon Files, 1975-1977 Extent 35.6 linear feet (ca. 71,200 pages) Scope and Content Note James M. Cannon, a former journalist and aide to New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, joined the Ford administration in January 1975 as an assistant to Vice President Rockefeller. Soon thereafter, President Ford assigned the Vice President a major role in the formulation of domestic policy. On February 13, 1975, President Ford announced that Rockefeller would serve as vice chairman of the Domestic Council …
William E. Casselman Files, 1974-1975 Extent 1.6 linear feet (ca. 3200 pages) Scope and Content Note William E. Casselman developed a good working relationship with Congressman Gerald Ford and his staff during his tenure as Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations in the Nixon White House. On the strength of this relationship, Casselman was invited to work on the Ford Vice Presidential staff. When Ford became President, Casselman moved with him to the White House, as a Counsel to the …
Richard B. Cheney Deputy Assistant to the President; Assistant to the President for White House Operations: Files , 1974-1977 Extent 8.4 linear feet (ca. 16,800 pages) Scope and Content Note During the Ford administration, Richard Cheney held the positions of Deputy Assistant and Assistant to the President for White House Operations, titles commonly referred to by the news media and others as "Deputy Chief of Staff" and "Chief of Staff." He initially served as deputy to Donald Rumsfeld and succeeded him …
Kenneth R. Cole, Jr. FILES, 1974-1975 Extent 1.2 linear feet (ca. 2,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Kenneth R. Cole assumed the position of Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in January 1974 while also serving as Executive Director of the Domestic Council, a post he had held since December 1972. Prior to those appointments he served as Deputy Director of the Domestic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs. Before entering government service, Cole was an executive …
Vernon C. Loen and Charles Leppert Files, 1974-1977 Extent 17.6 linear feet (ca. 35,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Loen and Leppert files document White House liaison with the House of Representatives, 1974-1977. Max Friedersdorf was in charge of House liaison through December 1974, and he was succeeded by Vernon Loen (Jan. 1975 - March 1976) and then Charles Leppert (April 1976 - Jan. 1977). This collection includes material produced by all three and their assistants. The Congressional Relations …
Patricia Lindh and Jeanne Holm Files, 1974-1977 Extent 20.8 linear feet (ca. 41,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The Special Assistant to the President for Women advised the President on women's issues, handled White House liaison with women's organizations and oversaw the work of the Office of Women's Programs (OWP) headed by Karen Keesling. Presidential Counsellor Anne Armstrong created the small office in the Nixon White House in February 1973 and brought it into the Ford administration. The office …
U.S. National Security Council Institutional Files, (1969) 1974-1977 (1980) Extent 47 linear feet (approximately 94,400 pages) Scope and Content Note The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947 in recognition of the need for coordination of political, military, and economic considerations in the development of national security policy in the post-World War II period. By the Reorganization Plan of 1949, the NSC was placed in the Executive Office of the President. The …