Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles and some speeches and interview transcripts concerning his activities with the Untied States Postal Service and one speech about postal matters delivered to the Economic Club of Detroit on March 8, 1976.
Materials relating primarily to the recommendation, application, and appointment of individuals to senior positions, advisory committees, and councils within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Also included are documents regarding the process, politics, and policies of appointments to the committees and councils, as well as background information about organizations. This collection also documents the continuing relationships cultivated by William Ballenger with his former constituents and colleagues as he dealt with Michigan-related issues.In addition, Ballenger acquired…
Material primarily on earthquake preparedness, energy issues, and National Medal of Science awards. Small amount of material concern the space shuttle, Space Exploration Day, and Office of Science and Technology.
The collection contains correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, research materials, and artifacts relating to Shirley Peck-Barnes' involvement with Friends of Children of Vietnam (FCVN) and "Operation Babylift," (the evacuation of orphans from Saigon during the closing weeks of the Vietnam War). After the 1975 Babylift, Barnes remained active in Babylift adoptee matters and eventually wrote The War Cradle: The Untold Story of "Operation Babylift."
This collection contains extensive materials related to domestic and international transportation issues, on such topics as railroad reorganization conducted through the United States Railway Association, National Passenger Railroad Corporation (Amtrak) and Consolidated Railroad Corporation (Conrail) structuring, the Northeast Rail Crisis, highway legislation, no-fault vehicle insurance, Trans-Alaska Pipeline, Civil Aeronautics Board investigations, international air travel agreements, and Law of the Sea negotiations.
Material concerning the operation of the Public Liaison Office, liaison with interest groups, White House briefings and conferences, the issuance of presidential proclamations, and issues (especially business-related issues such as consumerism). The bulk of the file dates from August 1974 to December 1975; in several series only scattered later items appear.
Material from this collection encompasses Baroody's work for Melvin Laird in Congress and at the Defense Department, 1961-73; and for Presidents Nixon and Ford as head of the White House Office of Public Liaison, 1973-77. Republican Party activities, policy positions, and presidential campaigns (especially 1964 and 1976) are also among the topics. See also the Laird Papers and the Baroody Files for closely related material. Material from Baroody's work as head of the American Enterprise Institute remains wholly unprocessed and closed to research.
This collection contains correspondence, clippings, speeches, schedules, and other material related to Robert Barrett's post-presidential activities on behalf of President Gerald R. Ford.
The Benton Becker Papers are a fragmentary collection of materials created, received, or filed by Becker as an attorney and advisor to Gerald Ford. The papers uniquely document Becker's role in Ford's vice presidential confirmation hearings, the Nixon pardon, disposition of the Nixon papers, and the 1976 presidential campaign.
Material concerning Belin’s work on the staffs of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the Rockefeller Commission, investigating alleged intelligence community abuses of U.S. law. The collection also includes much on his unofficial role as a leading defender of the Warren Commission report against such critics as Mark Lane, G. Robert Blakey, and Oliver Stone.
Extensive files on consumer protection issues and proposals. Fragmentary files on illegal aliens, privacy and other criminal and civil law issues.
A fragmentary collection of campaign literature, press releases, correspondence, and central Texas newspapers and news clippings from the 1976 Texas primary and general election.
Material on advice given to the President, First Family, and White House staff on legal matters, foreign and domestic issues, conflicts of interest, presidential powers, personal matters and campaign law. Major topics include: clemency program for draft evaders, presidential pardons (especially Richard Nixon), judicial appointments (including John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court), 1976 presidential campaign (especially the role of the Federal Election Commission), handling of the Nixon papers, 1974 transition to the Presidency, intelligence community reforms, and administration of the…
Speeches, clippings, correspondence, souvenirs and other material on both social and official matters. Also includes desk calendars and sporadic diary notes of Mrs. Buchen.
Materials primarily concerning his work as Domestic Council liaison with the District of Columbia government. Other topics include the Bicentennial Celebration, disaster relief, and the Congressional Black Caucus.
Materials reflecting the work of Burch and his staff from August to December 1974 on White House liaison with the Republican National Committee and other party organizations, political advice to the President on such topics as legislation and appointments to positions, and the President's involvement in the 1974 election campaign.
The collection consists of Arthur Burns’ handwritten journals that he kept between January 20, 1969 and July 25, 1974 as he served as counsellor to President Nixon and then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. The journals complement the Arthur Burns Papers, a separately donated collection.
The collection includes extensive files on U.S. domestic and international financial and monetary affairs, bank regulation and reform, administration of the Federal Reserve, and related issues. It also includes Dr. Burns' 1969-70 files from the Nixon White House on domestic and economic issues and 1981-85 files from his service as the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
Summaries and notes concerning the July 13, 1973 interview at which Butterfield revealed the existence of the White House taping system.
Gerald Ford joined this Grand Rapids firm upon discharge from the Navy in 1946. Most of the collection is Ford's correspondence with friend Philip Buchen and others in the firm, 194552. The correspondence, most concerning routine matters, was donated by a successor firm. Also included is a 1998 history of Law, Weathers & Richardson - the successor firm - that includes information on the work of both Ford and Buchen with the firm.