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NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. NSC VIETNAM INFORMATION GROUP: INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER REPORTS, 1967-75 Extent 4.8 linear feet (ca. 12,900 pages) Scope and Content Note The NSC Vietnam Information Group: Intelligence and Other Reports is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The Vietnam Information Group consisted of NSC staff members responsible for monitoring cable traffic from other agencies reporting on events in South and North Vietnam. It appears that the staff began …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. PRESIDENTIAL AGENCY FILE, 1974-1977 Extent 8.8 linear feet (ca. 16,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The Presidential Agency 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 . The Agency File is one component of the material collected and maintained by the National Security Council as …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. PRESIDENTIAL COUNTRY FILES FOR EUROPE AND CANADA, 1974-77 Extent 8.8 linear feet (ca. 17,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The Presidential Country Files for Europe and Canada is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The Presidential Country Files described here concern U.S. relations with European countries and Canada, and address regional issues as well as issues specific to individual countries. Materials in the first several folders …
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION FILE, 1974 Extent 0.4 linear feet (ca. 800 pages) Scope and Content Note The Presidential Transition File is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. On August 7, 1974, after having been informed by Alexander Haig that Richard Nixon's decision to resign the office of the presidency was near, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began preparing for the transition from the Nixon to Ford administrations. While maintaining a …
ROBERT L. PEABODY RESEARCH INTERVIEW NOTES, 1964-67 Extent 0.6 linear feet (ca. 1200 pages) Scope and Content Note Soon after suffering severe losses in the 1964 elections, Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives began discussing organizational and leadership changes. As a political scientist specializing in the study of Congress, Professor Robert Peabody of Johns Hopkins University became interested in studying these potential changes. Beginning in late December 1964, Peabody conducted …
FRANCES KAYE PULLEN FILES, 1974-77 Extent 1.6 linear feet (ca. 3,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Frances Kaye Pullen (usually know as Kaye) joined the White House staff as a speechwriter for President Ford in the Editorial Staff Office in November 1974. One year later she informally began assisting with Mrs. Ford's speech preparation and transferred to the First Lady's staff in February 1976. Pullen remained on the First Lady's staff as her speechwriter, reporting directly to Sheila Weidenfeld, Mrs. …
AGNES M. WALDRON FILES, 1976-77 Extent 8.4 linear feet (ca. 16,800 pages) Scope and Content Note The Waldron files cover her work form June 1976 to the end of the administration. The bulk of the collection documents the production of "News & Comment", the White House news summary, but some materials on her research work are also included. The news summary was a compilation and distillation of printed and electronic media news articles, distributed daily to ca. 150 White House staff. The first three series …
SHEILA R. WEIDENFELD FILES, (1924) 1974-77 Extent 26.4 linear feet (ca. 52,800 pages) Scope and Content Note The Sheila Weidenfeld files consist of memoranda, correspondence, briefing papers, agenda, notes, newsclippings, press releases and sundry background material compiled by Weidenfeld and her assistant, Patti Matson, during her tenure as press secretary to the First Lady from November 1974 to January 1977. First Lady Pat Nixon's press secretary, Helen M. Smith, briefly served in that capacity for Mrs. …
WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL OFFICE EAST WING STAFF FILES, 1974-76 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 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 …
WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL FILES: BULK MAIL FILES, 1974-76 Extent 124.6 linear feet (ca. 249,200 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Social Files contain materials that relate to the activities of First Lady Betty Ford and her staff. They were maintained in a designated filing scheme under the supervision of the Chief of Files and the White House Central Files staff. Included was over 500 cubic feet of mail addressed to Mrs. Ford, or both President and Mrs. Ford, from the general public that became the …
WHITE HOUSE SENIOR STAFF MEETING NOTES FILES, 1974-77 Extent 2.5 linear feet (ca. 2,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Although the frequency varied, the senior White House staff met about three times weekly, usually for 30 minutes, during the Ford Administration. The meetings were informal, with no agendas apparently prepared and no formal minutes recorded, and could include office principals or their "alternates." To make documentation of these meetings more accessible, archivists searched the individual …
WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASES, 1974-77 Extent 22.8 linear feet (ca. 45,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Press Release Collection contains both the press releases published and distributed by the White House Press Release Unit and most of the press releases issued informally by the Press Secretary's office. The collection originally included only press releases distributed by the Press Release Unit, but a partial set of press releases collected by the National Archives have been interfiled. …
White House Photographic Office: Files, 1974-1977 Extent 1.6 linear feet (ca. 3,200 pages) Scope and Content Note During the Ford administration the primary mission of the White House Photographic Office was to supply all the photographic needs of the President, the Vice‑President, and the White House staff, especially the Press Secretary. Oliver Atkins headed the Office until his December 1, 1974 resignation; immediately upon his departure David Kennerly, the President's personal photographer and …
H. JAMES FIELD, JR. FILES, 1976 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note H. James Field, Jr., joined the White House staff in February 1976 as Associate Director of the Presidential Personnel Office, filling human resources, housing and transportation positions. In July 1976 he was appointed Staff Assistant to Richard B. Cheney, whom he had previously assisted at the Cost of Living Council. In this position, Field, a former Republican State Chairman of Rhode Island, drafted replies …
FORD LIBRARY PROJECT FILE ON PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION Photocopies of Collected Documents, 1959-1992 Extent 3.2 linear feet (ca. 4800 pages) Scope and Content Note . Record Type Textual Access Open. Portions of some items may be temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under PL 102-526, the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Processed by Karen B. Holzhausen, April 2002 Copyright See the copyright …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 BILLS AND VOTING RECORD FILE SUB-GROUP, 1949-73 Record Type Textual Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Series List Bills and Voting Record File, 1949-73. (Boxes F1‑F29, 11.6 linear feet) Administrative Assistant John Milanowski, who assisted Gerald Ford in his first congressional campaign, maintained case files and lists of bills and resolutions sponsored by Ford from 1949. Frank Meyer, who succeeded Milanowski in 1957, expanded the collection by …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 FIFTH DISTRICT POST OFFICE FILE SUB-GROUP, 1949-73 Extent . Record Type Textual Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Content Available Online No Summary Description Ford Congressional Papers main page Alphabetical order title FORD, GERALD R., CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 FIFTH DISTRICT POST OFFICE FILE SUB-GROUP, 1949-73 Digitized Status Non …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 LEGISLATIVE FILE SUB-GROUP, 1963-73 Extent . Scope and Content Note FILE HEADINGS AGED (1972-1973) See also Citizens,Senior AGRICULTURE (1963-1973) See also Wheat ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (1963-1973) ANIMALS, BIRDS AND FISH (1972-1973) See also Humane Treatment of Animals ANTITRUST (1972-1973) See also Trusts, Mergers, etc. APPALACHIA (1965) See also Poverty APPORTIONMENT (1965-1967, 1969, and 1971-1973) APPROPRIATIONS (1963-1973) AREA REDEVELOPMENT (1963-1966) ARTS …
GERALD R. FORD MATERIALS PHOTOCOPIED FROM OTHER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES Extent Less than one linear foot (ca. 600 pages) Scope and Content Note This collection consists of memoranda, letters, and occasional other items by and about Gerald Ford, 1949-71, especially his contacts with the White House staffs of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon. The major portion is from the Johnson administration. A notable segment of the Johnson Library materials is a transcript of selected telephone …
GERALD R. FORD SCRAPBOOKS, 1929-2007 Extent 74 volumes; 168 linear feet (ca. 150,000 pages); 27 reels (15,318 frames) Scope and Content Note The Gerald R. Ford Scrapbooks provide an overview of Ford's public life from high school through his post-presidential years. The seventy-four large bound volumes and over 80,000 pages of unbound material consist mostly of newspaper and magazine clippings, but also include photographs, souvenir programs, invitations, holiday and courtesy messages, notes, …