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Grand Rapids Champions Women's Rights: LVW, Betty Ford, and the ERA Details Date October 17, 2024 Time 6:30 pm EDT Location Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Grand Rapids, MI Type Dialogues Dr. Liette Gidlow of Wayne State University explores the development of the League of Women Voters in Grand Rapids and First Lady Betty Ford's historic membership during the fight for the ERA. Register …
Republican Congressional Leadership Meetings with President Richard Nixon, 1969-1972 Date Notes Topics Discussed January 28, 1969 includes minutes, Ford notes, Robert Hartmann notes Republican Party, Legislation, Congressional Liaison February 5, 1969 includes minutes and Ford notes United States Postal Service, Federal Budget, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Treaties and Agreements, Agriculture, Electoral College, Legislation, Congressional Liaison, Postal Matters February 18, 1969 includes minutes Civil …
Upcoming Exhibits Current Exhibits Upcoming Exhibits Past Exhibits Online Exhibits Betty Ford greets reporters standing in front of a bus that says "Early detection saves lives...it may save yours" The Betty Blip: Betty Ford’s Battle Against Breast Cancer Museum - Grand Rapids On-Site September 26, 2024 - April 09, 2025 In this small exhibit, visitors will learn about Betty Ford’s breast cancer diagnosis just six weeks into her husband’s presidency. In an era when breast cancer was a private disease, …
The White House Prom At the time her father became President of the United States, Susan Ford was beginning her senior year at Holton-Arms School, an independent academy for girls in Bethesda, Maryland. When her class started planning their prom they turned to her for a venue. Susan Ford hosted the dance at the White House on May 31, 1975, the first – and to date only – prom to be held there. The class of 1975 covered the cost of the evening with funds they had been raising since seventh grade. Prom …
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Ford Administration Volumes The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign …
PRESNET Database The PRESNET database was launched in 1986 and serves as a folder-level index to most of the processed manuscript holdings of the Gerald Ford Presidential Library. The software permits both simple and boolean searches using controlled vocabulary indexing terms and/or natural text. Search reports list, collection-by-collection, all series and folders containing material on a given topic. This database does not index individual documents or audiovisual materials. Searching in PRESNET PRESNET …
Suggested Paper Topics For On-Site Research on Ford Presidency, 1974-77 University of Michigan Political Science 320 - The American Chief Executive Suggested Paper Topics For On-Site Research on Ford Presidency, 1974-77 Note: Feel free to contact the Library if there are other topics that interest you. On some topics, the Ford Digital Presidential Library can supplement your on-site research. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/NATIONAL SECURITY The Fall of Saigon and the End of the Vietnam Conflict The Sinai …
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, and its sister institution, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, are part of the Presidential libraries system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a federal agency. The Library is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the North Campus of the University of Michigan, Gerald Ford’s alma mater. The Museum is located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, Gerald Ford's hometown. The Gerald R. …
Queen Elizabeth II B0570-24 - President Ford and Queen Elizabeth dance during the state dinner in honor of the Queen and Prince Philip at the White House. July 7, 1976. Photograph of President Gerald Ford Dancing with Queen Elizabeth II during a State Dinner Held in Her Honor, 7/7/1976 (White House photograph B0570-24) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visited the United States in July 1976 as part of the Bicentennial celebrations commemorating the nation’s 200th birthday. They traveled to Philadelphia, …
Key Documents on Gerald R. Ford's Visits to China Gerald Ford made official visits to the Peoples' Republic of China in 1972 as Minority Leader of the House of Representatives (accompanied by House Majority Leader Hale Boggs) and in 1975 as President. A7912-thm A7912-thm Highlights of Gerald Ford's trips included meetings with Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai) and Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong). Here President Ford and his daughter Susan watch as Mao greets Henry Kissinger. Highlights of Gerald Ford's trips included …
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The Fords Gerald R. Ford Explore the life of the 38th President Betty Ford Explore the life of Betty Ford Timeline of President Ford's Life and Career Timeline of Elizabeth (Betty) Bloomer Ford's Life and Career Combined Loading timeline: Combined Timeline of Gerald and Betty Ford ... Tributes and Honors President Ford died on December 26, 2006 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. After ceremonies in California, Washington, and Grand Rapids, he was interred on the grounds of the Gerald R. Ford …
Biography Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth and divorced later that year. He and his mother eventually settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan where her parents lived. On February 1, 1916, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald R. Ford, Jr., …
Past Events Sep 18 2024 Panel and Preview: The American Vice President Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Join us for a film preview and discussion of American Experience PBS’ The American Vice President , which tells the little-known story of the second-highest office in the land, tracing its evolution from a constitutional afterthought to a position of political… Sep 13 2024 Exhibit Opening: ArtPrize Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum hosts over 30 artists for …
Topic Ideas for Student Papers The attached list identifies some of the topics that undergraduates might choose to research in the Ford Library's "open" collections. For some topics, the volume and quality of material are sufficient to support major honors thesis projects. In other cases, the scope of material might be more suitable to a 10-15 page seminar paper. In all cases, students must rely on other libraries for related books and articles. (The Ford Library's small printed works collection does not …
Student Online Research Projects Concerning the American Presidency June 10, 2019 The links below lead to online documents from the presidential libraries covering the American presidency since 1929. Herbert Hoover Hoover and the Supreme Court Stock Market Crash Franklin D. Roosevelt First 100 Days Franklin D. Roosevelt Day by Day Holocaust Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese-American Internment Roosevelt and the Supreme Court Tuskegee Airmen World War II See also the Roosevelt Library's virtual …
Gerald R. Ford Genealogical Information Table of Contents Ancestry of Gerald R. Ford President Gerald R. Ford was born on July 14, 1913 at Omaha, Nebraska and was originally given the name Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His parents, Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner, had been married on September 7, 1912 at Harvard, Illinois. Just over two weeks after the birth of their son, Dorothy separated from her husband and took her infant son to her sister's home in Oak Park, Illinois and then to her parents home …
Bibliography for Students Gerald R. Ford Aaron, Jan. Gerald R. Ford: President of Destiny . Fleet Press Corp., 1975. Booraem, Hendrik. The Education of Gerald Ford . William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016. Booraem, Hendrik. Young Jerry Ford: Athlete and Citizen . William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013. Collins, David R. Gerald R. Ford: Thirty-Eighth President of the United States . Garrett Educational Corp., 1990. Francis, Sandra. Gerald R. Ford: Our Thirty-Eighth President . The Child’s …
Civics for All of US Civics for All of US is the new national civic education initiative from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum and the National Archives.Our mission is to build civic literacy and engagement by providing exemplary civic education resources and programs for all ages using the records of the U.S. Government. Civics for All of US delivers thought-provoking educational programs and powerful educational resources to the public, regardless of their proximity to a National …
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grants Program The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation awards grants of up to $2,200 in support of research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Library. A grant defrays travel and living expenses of a research trip to the Ford Library in Ann Arbor. Overseas applicants are welcome to apply, but they will be responsible for the costs of travel between their home country and North America. The grants only cover travel within North America. Library …