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National Security Adviser, Staff Assistant Peter W. Rodman Files, (1970) 1974-1977 Extent 0.6 linear feet (ca. 1,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Staff Assistant Peter W. Rodman Files is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. Peter Rodman served as a staff assistant to National Security Advisers Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft from 1969 to 1977. His duties ranged from the routine (drafting farewell and thank you letters for Kissinger and Scowcroft) to the …
National Security Adviser, Saigon Embassy Files Kept by Ambassador Graham Martin: Copies Made for the NSC Staff, 1963-1975 (1976) Extent 4.0 linear feet (ca. 8,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The Saigon Embassy Files Kept by Ambassador Graham Martin is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. In January 1978, the North Carolina State Police found a cache of classified documents in the trunk of a car that had been stolen from former U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam …
National Security Adviser, Staff Assistant John K. Matheny Files, 1975-1977 Extent 4.4 linear feet (ca. 8,800 pages) Scope and Content Note United States Air Force Captain John K. Matheny was detailed to the National Security Council staff in July 1975 and served until the end of the Ford administration. Although his official job title was Staff Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the position was sometimes called “junior military assistant.” He worked closely with …
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 …
Mildred V. Leonard Files, 1974-1976 Extent 8.4 linear feet (ca. 16,800 pages) Scope and Content Note Mildred Leonard joined the Ford congressional staff in 1951 and remained on his staff through December 31, 1976. She began her career with Ford as his personal secretary, a position she held until 1972 when she became his administrative assistant. During the vice presidential and presidential years her title was personal assistant. While Ford was President, Miss Leonard headed the President’s personal …
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 …
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 …
William J. Baroody, Jr., Files, 1974-1977 Extent 21.0 linear feet (ca. 42,000 pages) Scope and Content Note William J. Baroody, Jr., began his career in Washington as an aide to Republican congressman Melvin Laird. As Laird moved to other positions, including Secretary of Defense and then White House Counsellor, Baroody continued to assist him. Soon after joining the White House staff, Baroody began to do some liaison work with interest groups, although his was not the only office serving this function. He …
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 …
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 …