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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."
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Working closely with White House Chiefs of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, Goldwin organized a series of seminars attended by the President on such topics as the world food situation, affirmative action, ethnicity, and jobs and unemployment. Goldwin's papers also reflect his involvement drafting occasional speeches for the President, his frequent contacts with prominent intellectuals nationwide, and his association with Donald Rumsfeld at NATO and the Defense Department. Other noteworthy subjects within the Goldwin Papers include the Cabinet and White House staff…
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Scrapbooks containing clippings and occasional photographs and bound volumes containing speeches and testimony. The materials concern Levi's work as Attorney General and legal issues such as busing, gun control, crime, electronic surveillance, and affirmative action.
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Cable messages between the White House and foreign service posts transmitted outside of normal State Department channels. They are usually between Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft and U.S. ambassadors (or, occasionally, to other officials visiting those posts). Included are some “hotline” communications between President Ford or Secretary Kissinger and foreign heads of state. Subject matter ranges from routine travel arrangements to high-level foreign policy issues.
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A fragmentary collection of campaign literature, press releases, correspondence, and central Texas newspapers and news clippings from the 1976 Texas primary and general election.
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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.
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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.
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Primarily correspondence prepared by Calkins documenting his contacts with local, state, and national Republican Party officials and members of the general public.
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Miscellaneous very small collections of papers, audiovisual media and/or artifacts donated by various individuals. The collections were solicited by Ford Library staff, obtained by the design firm of Staples & Charles in the course of planning exhibits for the Ford Museum, or received at the Ford Library unsolicited. Audiovisual materials were transferred to the audiovisual department and objects were transferred to the Ford Museum. Collections are arranged in order of receipt. New collections are added as they are received and processed.
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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.