The bulk of the Dannenhauer collection remains closed to research. This open segment contains the FBI’s public release/sanitized version of records compiled in connection with its background investigation of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for the position of Vice President, including summary material from applicant-type investigations of Rockefeller conducted in 1950, 1953 and 1969. Included are interview reports and summaries, memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, financial statements and news clippings.
Material related to De Baca's liaison with Hispanic groups and individuals, their issues and goals, and the federal government's role in assisting their development in areas of civil rights, education, equal employment opportunity and technical aid.
The collection consists of case files for Presidential speeches and other remarks that Denison wrote or helped write from May 1976 to January 1977. Included are Denison's notes, speech drafts and reference materials for a variety of speeches, including President Ford's Republican Convention acceptance speech and Bicentennial speeches.
Interviews about 1976 campaign advertising with Bruce Wagner, Douglas Bailey, media advisers to President Ford, and with Tony Schwartz, a media consultant who later joined the Carter campaign.TRANSCRIPTIONThe Ford Library contracted the transcription of the Wagner and Schwartz interviews and staff edited the transcripts.
Domestic Council administrative staff tracked memoranda, letters, and enrolled bills by computer after November 1975. Document inventories (print-outs) in box 1 provide awkward access to succeeding boxes of material arranged by control number. Much of this material is duplicated in collections of Domestic Council staff.
Material accumulated by the Social Secretary during the planning, coordination, and direction of all official and private social events hosted by the President and his family. Included are all breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, receptions and state dinners held in the Residence and occasionally, during trips abroad.
Fragmentary files and items removed from scrapbooks compiled by the Social Secretary which partially document selected luncheons, dinners, and other social events hosted by the President and his family. Items unique to this collection include the unpublished manuscripts for a book and article on White House social planning and an article on Christmas at the White House.
The Dorothy Downton files are a fragmentary collection of materials created, received, referred, or filed by Dorothy Downton as personal secretary to President Gerald Ford. The files primarily document Downton's role in handling the personal correspondence and daily expenses of the First Family. The collection also includes materials from the 1976 Presidential campaign and some official materials filed for the President's use.