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THOMAS ARANDA, JR., FILES, 1976-77 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 election, …
F. LYNN MAY FILES, 1974-77 Extent 18 linear feet (ca. 36,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Lynn May received a B.A. degree in history from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1964, and completed course requirements for a PhD in history at UCLA in 1972. From May 1972 to April 1974 he was special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. In April 1974 he became staff assistant to Geoffrey C. Shepard, Associate Director, General Government, of the Domestic …
BOBBIE GREENE KILBERG FILES, 1974-77 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 1977. Her …
MARVIN KOSTERS FILES, 1974-75 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 …
ROBERT GOLDWIN FILES, 1974-76 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 him …
MILDRED V. LEONARD FILES, 1974-76 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 …
PATRICIA LINDH and JEANNE HOLM FILES, 1974-77 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 …
VERNON C. LOEN and CHARLES LEPPERT FILES, 1974-77 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 …
W. ALLEN MOORE FILES, 1975-77 Extent 1.6 linear feet (ca. 3,200 pages) Scope and Content Note W. Allen Moore served on the Ford administration Domestic Council as Associate Director for Policy and Planning; and later, as Associate Director for Operations. The greatest portion of the files concerns social security and welfare reform topics from 1976. The files are arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically therein. Following several years of work as an economist and management consultant, Moore …
JOHN R. STILES AND MERRILL MUELLER FILES, 1974-75 Extent 7.0 linear feet (ca. 14,000 pages) Scope and Content Note John Stiles, a longtime friend of President Ford from Grand Rapids, served as Mr. Ford's campaign manager during the 1948 campaign for Congress and helped him during the Warren Commission's investigation of the Kennedy assassination. Soon after Gerald Ford became President, Stiles began working part-time in the White House. Working under the supervision of White House Counsellor John Marsh, …
BRADLEY H. PATTERSON, JR. FILES, (1973) 1974-76 Extent 2.2 linear feet (ca. 4,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Bradley Patterson served throughout the Nixon and Ford administrations in a variety of positions, most notably as the White House official closely monitoring the concerns of Native Americans from 1969 to 1974 and again in 1976. The files described here consist of correspondence and memoranda generated or accumulated by Patterson in 1976 as Special Assistant to the President for Native American …
WANDA M. PHELAN FILES, 1974-76 Extent 23.6 linear feet (ca. 47,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Wanda Phelan served in the White House press office at two different times during the Nixon and Ford administrations. From February 1970 to October 1974 she handled routine correspondence for press secretaries Herb Klein, Ron Ziegler and Jerald ter Horst. She returned to the White House press secretary's office on detail in August 1976 and worked as a staff assistant under Agnes Waldron. In this role, she …
SUSAN PORTER FILES, 1974-77 Extent 9.6 linear feet (ca. 19,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Susan Porter files include correspondence, memoranda, schedules, calendars, fact sheets and scenarios compiled by Porter during her tenure as appointments secretary to Mrs. Ford and the Ford children from August 1974 until January 1977. Porter began working in the White House in 1971. As appointments secretary Porter and her assistant, Sally Runion, organized schedules for Mrs. Ford and the Ford children. All …
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 …
WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. WHITE HOUSE BUDGET FILES, 1974-76 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Administrative Office was one of the permanent operating offices which remained in the White House even as Presidents changed. The Administrative Office was divided into four areas: White House budget, payroll, personnel, and supply activities. Leave records, time and attendance reports, personnel records, and the purchase of supplies and equipment necessary …
WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL OFFICE CHRONOLOGICAL FILES, 1974-76 Extent 5.6 linear feet (ca. 11,200 pages) Scope and Content Note RELATED MATERIALS (December 2012) Individual staff office files document the activities of the First Lady’s staff. These include the files of: Russell Armentrout, Maria Downs, Elizabeth O’Neill, Susan Porter, Frances Pullen, and Sheila Weidenfeld. The Library also holds the personal papers of Betty Ford, Maria Downs, Peter Sorum, and Sheila Weidenfeld (unprocessed). The White House Social …
WHITE HOUSE RECORDS OFFICE: LEGISLATION CASE FILES, 1974-76 Extent 28 linear feet (ca. 56,000 pages) Scope and Content Note SUMMARY OF FORD ACTION ON CLEARED LEGISLATION Public Bills and Joint Resolutions Signed 1974 - 278 1975 - 201 1976 - 379 Total - 858 Private Bills Signed 1974 - 35 1975 - 27 1976 - 115 Total - 177 Public Bills Vetoed 1974 - 24 (4 Overridden by Congress) 1975 - 17 (4 Overridden by Congress) 1976 - 20 (4 Overridden by Congress) Total - 62 (12 Overridden by Congress) Private Bills Vetoed …
WHITE HOUSE GIFT UNIT FILES, 1974-77 Extent 13 linear feet (ca. 20,800 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Gift Unit is one of several permanent operating offices that provide support services to each administration. Marjorie Wicklein headed the office in the Ford administration, supervising a staff of eight. Wicklein reported to Robert Lindner, the Permanent Operations Offices' chief executive clerk, who in turn reported to the staff secretary, through David Hoopes, special assistant to the …
WHITE HOUSE CONGRESSIONAL MAIL FILES, 1974-77 Extent 37.6 linear feet (ca. 75,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The Congressional Relations Office received and responded to dozens of letters addressed to the President from members of Congress each day. To control this mail and allow for easy reference, the Congressional Relations staff created a single centralized file of logs of incoming mail and copies of their outgoing letters. Copies of congressional letters drafted by other White House offices were …
National Security Adviser. Memoranda of Conversations, 1973-1977 Extent 8.4 linear feet (ca. 8,700 pages) Scope and Content Note The Memoranda of Conversations (memcons) is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance and nature of the Ford National Security Adviser Files as a whole are described in Appendix A . The bulk of the memcons are based on Brent Scowcroft’s notes from meetings he attended in his capacity as Deputy Assistant to the President for …