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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 …
WILLIAM L. FISHER PAPERS, 1976-77 Extent 2.4 linear feet (ca. 4,800 pages) Scope and Content Note William Fisher joined the Department of the Interior as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals in April 1975. Upon the departure of Assistant Secretary Jack Carlson in February 1976, Fisher moved up to that position. The Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Minerals had oversight over the following offices: Alaska Power Administration Bonneville Power Administration Bureau of Mines …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 CAMPAIGN FILE SUB-GROUP, 1948-74 Record Type Textual Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Series List Campaign Files, 1948-74. (Boxes G1‑G37, 14.8 linear feet) Materials relating to Gerald R. Ford's thirteen biennial congressional campaigns from 1948 through 1972 were maintained as a separate file. Because of the need to consult these materials in succeeding campaigns, campaign files were saved when other files were discarded. Although there is little …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 COMMITTEE FILE SUB-GROUP, 1948-65 Record Type Textual Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Series List Committee File, 1948-65. (Boxes H1‑H8, 3.2 linear feet) GRF served on the Committee on Public Works, which reviewed legislation on federal construction projects from 1949 to 1950. Beginning in 1951 and continuing until his election as Minority Leader in 1965 ended his committee service, GRF served on the Committee on Appropriations. Because of the …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT (JOSEPHINE WILSON) FILES SUB-GROUP, 1965-73 Extent . Scope and Content Note . Record Type Textual Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Series List Legislative Assistant (Josephine Wilson) Files, 1965-73. (Boxes I1‑I24, 9.6 linear feet) Josephine E. Wilson served on the staff of the House Minority Leader as a legislative assistant from 1956 to 1973, under Joseph W. Martin, Charles A. Halleck, and Gerald R. Ford. In 1973, Ms. Wilson …
GERALD R. FORD CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1949-73 SPECIAL FILES SUB-GROUP, 1948-73 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 SPECIAL FILES SUB-GROUP, 1948-73 Digitized Status Partially …
GERALD R. FORD PERSONAL FINANCIAL PAPERS, 1942-2004 Extent 134.6 linear feet (ca. 269,200 pages) Record Type Textual Access Closed. This collection is temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256). Researchers may contact the Library for information about how to appeal the access restriction decision of individual documents. Processed by John J. O'Connell, …
GERALD R. FORD: MATERIALS FROM THE WRITING OF "A TIME TO HEAL" , 1977-79 Extent 15 linear feet (ca. 30,000 pages) Scope and Content Note While writing his autobiography, A Time to Heal (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), Gerald R. Ford composed a series of personal reflections on twenty-seven topics ranging from "How I make decisions" to "Advice to a teen-age daughter." Most deal with personal principles: the value of competition, of loyalty, of ambition. Others concern politics and governance: making …
RICHARD A. FORD: FORD PAINT AND VARNISH COMPANY SCRAPBOOK, 1929-1962 (1970) Extent 1 volume (488 pages) Record Type Textual Access Open. Processed by Donna Lehman, July 2002 Copyright Richard A. Ford gives and assigns to the United States of America all copyrights which he has in such of the Materials as are unpublished. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Last Modified Date Tue, 03/18/2025 - 12:00 Content Available Online No Summary …
MAX L. FRIEDERSDORF PAPERS, (1971) 1974-1977 Extent 4.4 linear feet (ca. 3,500 pages) Scope and Content Note When Gerald R. Ford became President in August 1974, Max L. Friedersdorf was serving as Deputy Assistant to President Nixon for Legislative Affairs. His special responsibility was coordination of White House liaison with the House of Representatives. He worked directly under William E. Timmons, the head of the Congressional Liaison Office. In January 1975 Friedersdorf became the Assistant to the …
PRESIDENTIAL HANDWRITING FILE Documents Annotated by the President, 1974-77 Extent 41.4 linear feet (ca. 82,800 pages) Scope and Content Note History of the Presidential Handwriting File President Lyndon Johnson's staff started the practice of maintaining a separate handwriting file. Gertrude Fry copied the practices of the Johnson White House when she joined the Nixon staff and continued to be responsible for the file under President Ford. Ms. Fry and her staff filed the documents chronologically by the …
GERALD R. FORD POST-PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE FILES, 1977-2007 Extent 750.2 linear feet (ca. 1,500,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Material concerning the work and activities of former President Gerald Ford after he left the White House in 1977. The collection includes Ford’s speeches, schedules, correspondence, trips and events, and materials related to the transition from the White House and the operation of the Office of Gerald Ford in Rancho Mirage, California. It also documents Ford’s involvement in the …
THEODORE C. MARRS FILES, 1974-76 Extent 45.6 linear feet (ca. 91,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Theodore Marrs' Files document his 1974-76 work on White House liaison with approximately 160 special interest groups and associations and include material on the government programs and issues that most interested them. Marrs' Role in the Ford White House Many of Marrs' colleagues in the Public Liaison Office specialized in liaison with groups representing only particular segments of society. For instance, …
DAVID W. BELIN PAPERS, (1961) 1963-98 Extent 27.8 linear feet (ca. 55,600 pages) Scope and Content Note Soon after President Lyndon Johnson appointed the members of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (the Warren Commission), they began hiring a staff to assist them. The Commissioners and Executive Director J. Lee Rankin recruited a mixture of both experienced attorneys and promising younger attorneys. One of the young attorneys was David W. Belin of Des Moines, Iowa. …
WHITE HOUSE CENTRAL FILES NAME FILE, 1974-77 Extent 1420 linear feet (ca. 2,840,000 pages) Record Type Textual Access Open in part. Some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256). Processed by William McNitt, January 1993; revised by J.P. Schmidt, December 2012 Copyright President Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights …
ARTHUR BURNS PAPERS, (1957) 1969-87 (1988-90) Extent 264 linear feet (ca. 480,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Origin and Arrangement of the Burns Papers The papers were created and accumulated by Dr. Burns while he was Counsellor to President Nixon, 1969 70, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1970 78, Distinguished Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, 1978-81 and 1985-87, and U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1981-85. Dr. Burns donated the papers to the Ford Library in 1981. The Library has …
President Ford Committee Records, Series D: General Counsel's Office Files, 1975-77 Extent . Scope and Content Note The General Counsel's Office Files are an important resource for examining the legal issues involved in the operation of a presidential campaign committee. In addition the collection extensively documents the development of the Federal Election Commission, its role in regulating campaign finances, and PFC receipts and expenditures. Smaller, but important, segments concern aspects of PFC …
President Ford Committee Records, Series F: People for Ford Office Files, 1971-76 Extent . Scope and Content Note People for Ford (PFF) was the volunteer arm of the President Ford Committee formed during the general election to develop outreach efforts to special voter groups. Directed by long-time Republican National Committee activist Elly Peterson, the PFF staff targeted women, African-Americans, professional groups, ethnics, farmers, Jews, senior citizens, and young people for particular attention. …
President Ford Committee Records, Series G: Press Office Files, 1975-76 Extent . Scope and Content Note Press Secretary Peter Kaye formed the PFC's small in-house Press Office in October, 1975. Kaye directed the organization's radio, television, and news activities through the primary campaign, reporting to the PFC Chairman. He resigned in July, 1976, when the Press Office was subsumed under a larger Communications Division, headed by newly-appointed Deputy Chairman for Communications William I. Greener, …
President Ford Committee Records, Series K: Vice Presidential Campaign Files, 1976 Scope and Content Note The Vice Presidential Campaign Office collection is primarily a reference file. It consists almost entirely of several small, routine, and likely incomplete, files, the bulk of which is contained in a large background book. Material of interest to researchers are selected Dole speech and interview transcripts, the Senator's voting record, and position papers on various campaign topics.The collection is …