WARREN K. HENDRIKS, JR. Director, Office of Presidential Spokesmen: Files , (1974) 1975-76

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.

Hendrik’s files consist of correspondence including original invitations, copies of Scheduling and Advance Office Director William Nicholson’s responses declining the invitations on behalf of the President, and letters concerning possible alternative speakers.  The collection also contains Presidential briefing papers, memoranda, the President’s schedule, memoranda concerning proposed additions to the schedule, weekly and monthly planning calendars, spokesmen activity and primary spokesmen schedules, and Ford Convention Film schedules.  Much of the material in these files bears the name Libby Goltra, secretary to William Nicholson, who apparently handled much of the day-to-day work for the Presidential Spokesmen’s Office.

This collection is not a complete record of Hendriks’ work at the White House, because none of the material concerns his earlier work on the staffs of Nixon White House Counsellor Robert H. Finch or the Domestic Council.

Related Materials (January 2011)
The collections received from other staff members in the Scheduling and Advance Office are all closely related, as are portions of White House Central Files categories IV (Invitations) and PR (Public Relations).