Alexander Haig first joined the White House staff in 1968 as an aide on the National Security Council staff to incoming national security assistant Henry Kissinger. He continued on the White House staff as an assistant to the president and chief of staff under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford until 1974, absent January-May 1973 when he served as Army Vice Chief of Staff at the Pentagon. In the spring of 1973 when revelations about the Watergate cover-up forced the resignations of two of President Nixon's closest aides, H.R.
Related Materials (January 2012)Several collections document the Ford Presidential Museum including: Gerald R. Ford Commemorative Committee: Records, 1977-84; Gerald R. Ford Museum Re-dedication Committee: Records, 1996-97; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Dedication Committee, Inc.: Financial Records, 1981-82. These collections are currently unprocessed and unavailable for research.
Samuel Halper, a journalist with lengthy ties to Puerto Rico, served as a consultant to the Domestic Council from May 1975 to April 1976, responsible for reviewing the proposed Compact of Permanent Union between Puerto Rico and the United States and making recommendations to the President. The Halper files consist of a small number of documents he accumulated as well as a working file inherited from Domestic Council staffers Norm Ross and James Falk in their capacities as President Ford's representatives to the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Puerto Rico. The advisory group drafted the C
President John F. Kennedy appointed Robert Hampton to the U.S. Civil Service Commission (CSC) in 1961. In 1969, Hampton accepted President Richard M. Nixon's appointment as CSC Chairman, a post he held until he left the Commission in 1977.
Ray Hanzlik joined the Domestic Council staff in August 1975 to help coordinate the six White House forums on domestic policy. He remained on the staff throughout 1976 as an assistant to Special Assistant for Intergovernmental Affairs Stephen McConahey. The materials described consist of working files accumulated by Hanzlik and the forums staff in 1975 and by Hanzlik in 1976, arranged by function and topic.
Discussed below under separate headings are: Robert Hartmann's role in the Ford White House, the scope and content of the Hartmann files, and related collections at the Ford Library.
The Ford Library has two Robert Hartmann collections - the Hartmann Files and the Hartmann Papers. The Hartmann Papers consist of historical materials from throughout his career that the Ford Library received in 1992. Described below under separate headings are Hartmann's career, the scope and contents of the collection, and related materials in the Ford Library. Hartmann's Career
The Presidential Messages Office (PMO) provided the President with written messages of commendation to the public, expressing his greetings and good will (see Appendix A). Director Eliska Hasek authored statements and messages in the styles of Presidents Johnson and Nixon in her prior White House experience. She joined the Ford administration in August, 1974. The Hasek collection includes the files of Associate Director Michael S.
Beginning in January 1976, Hendriks served as Director of the Presidential Spokesmen’s Office. This office handled event invitations that the President had to decline, but which were considered important enough that the administration should be represented at the event. The office coordinated the schedules of administration spokesmen such as Cabinet officers and agency heads and arranged for them to speak on behalf of the President.
The Roderick M. Hills Papers, 1975-1990, contain materials from Hills’ positions as Counsel to President Gerald R. Ford and as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and his post-governmental career with various companies and law firms.
In 1971, Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman James Schlesinger asked Martin Hoffmann, who had previous Washington experience as a congressional staff member, to leave a private sector position to serve as AEC General Counsel. Hoffmann served in this role until 1973 when Schlesinger became Secretary of Defense. Hoffmann joined him at the Department of Defense and served successively as Special Assistant, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Army. Although the collection contains some materials from before and after his service in these two Federal agencies, Hoffmann’s six
David Hoopes joined the Nixon White House in April 1971. He worked as a staff assistant to the President until 1974, with responsibility for handling briefing papers and follow-up memos for President Nixon's meetings. During this time he was also given special projects to do for the Staff Secretary; in June 1974 he apparently joined the Staff Secretary's Office. Although his official title was Special Assistant to the President, he also adopted the title of "Deputy Staff Secretary." He remained within the Staff Secretary's Office during the entire Ford administration and
Jonathan D. Hoornstra joined the news summary staff in February 1972. The President’s daily news summary was an objective compilation of television and national wire services’ news reports covering foreign and domestic events. In the Nixon White House, the news summary was under the direction of the communications office. Mr. Hoornstra’s primary responsibility was to review 35-40 daily newspapers from across the United States for the purpose of selecting columns and editorials for the President to read and preparation for the President’s daily news summary.
Judith Richards Hope, a graduate of Wellesley College and Harvard Law School, was associated with law firms in Washington, DC and California. She also spent one year as deputy director of the California Rural Development Corporation before joining the Domestic Council.
On September 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford announced the formation of the Presidential Clemency Board, charged with creating a program of conditional clemency for those accused of draft or military absence offenses during the Vietnam War. The Board, chaired by former New York Senator Charles Goodell immediately began to develop the program and hire a staff. They borrowed Robert Horn from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to serve as Executive Secretary to the Board.
In 1969, Tod Hullin began working at the White House as a staff assistant to the President. When the Domestic Council was organized, he joined it as Executive Assistant to the Director. He was appointed Associate Director for Housing and Community Affairs in May 1974 and remained in this position until his departure in January 1976.
George Humphreys joined the Domestic Council as associate director for environment in August 1975 and served in that post until the end of the Ford administration. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Humphreys held posts as Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and President and Director of the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation before his appointment to the Domestic Council.
Most of the material listed below is still housed in the original boxes and folders that Congressman Hutchinson’s office used to ship them to the Bentley Historical Library. The Ford Library staff has not done any arrangement or description work. These boxes are available for research only on a review-on-request basis – researchers interested in using them should contact the Library well in advance of a visit to allow the staff time to prepare them for research. Please contact us for more information on the contents of individual boxes or to request that material be added to
Stephen Wayne and James F. C. Hyde interviewed members of President Ford's White House and OMB staff as part of a 5-year joint research study of legislative clearance, enrolled bill and legislative programming processes over different Administrations (see Appendix A). Several scholarly articles resulted from the study, and the interviews are also widely cited in Professor Wayne's book, The Legislative Presidency.
William G. Hyland, a noted expert on U.S.-Soviet relations, had a distinguished career in government service, which began during the 1950s as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and culminated with his tenure as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs during the Ford administration. In between, Hyland served on the National Security Council staff and as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.