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From 1929 to 1962, Gerald Ford, Sr., and his sons, Thomas G. Ford and Richard A. Ford compiled a scrapbook documenting the operation of their business firm, the Ford Paint and Varnish Company. Ford Sr. opened the factory in October 1929, three weeks prior to the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression. The enterprise struggled, survived, and flourished until it was sold in 1970. The scrapbook primarily includes newspaper clippings, advertisements, and memoranda from the company to its …
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When Gerald R. Ford became President in August 1974, Max L. Friedersdorf was serving as Deputy Assistant to President Nixon for Legislative Affairs. His special responsibility was coordination of White House liaison with the House of Representatives. He worked directly under William E. Timmons, the head of the Congressional Liaison Office. In January 1975…
Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs Material includes appointment books, courtesy and some official correspondence, First Family schedules, and small subject files on domestic and international matters and Legislative Affairs Office activities. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Correspondence File, 1975 – 77. Scheduling File, 1975-77. Subject File, (1971) 1974-77. Trips File, 1974-76. Filter Folders by Status Open Closed …
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Charles Goodell first reached prominence as a Republican U.S. Representative, Senator, and Vietnam War critic from the state of New York between 1959 and 1971. None of his papers from that phase of his career are included in his Ford Library collection, however. Goodell donated his congressional papers to the New York Public Library in 1974.Of the Goodell papers at the Ford Library,…
Chairman, Presidential Clemency Board; Washington Attorney and Lobbyist Extensive materials on President Ford's clemency program for Vietnam War draft evaders and military absence offenders, including minutes of meetings, case summaries, report drafts and internal memoranda. Also included are materials on Goodell's activities as a lawyer/lobbyist with a company called DGA International working on such issues as privacy legislation, Concorde landing rights, automobile emissions, and other personal interests …
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The collection includes multiple copies of the student yearbooks, The Pioneer, dating from 1927 to 1931, when Gerald R. Ford, Jr. was a student at the school (the building contained both a middle school and a high school so he was there for six years). He appears in each of the yearbooks.
Also included are many scattered…
The collection contains student publications, including yearbooks and literary magazines (also containing school news), of South High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan from the period 1927-1931. Gerald R. Ford, Jr. attended the school at that time and his picture or name appears in many of the publications. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Filter Folders by Status Open Closed Digitized Reset Filters Container List Collection Overview …
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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…
Consultant on Puerto Rico, Domestic Council The collection consists primarily of Norman Ross's and James Falk's files from their work on the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Puerto Rico. Halper, a journalist, inherited and used the files while serving as a part-time consultant. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Puerto Rico Subject File, 1974-76. Filter Folders by Status Open Closed Digitized Reset Filters Container List Collection Overview …
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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…
Coordinator of Public Forums; Associate Director for Intergovernmental Affairs; Domestic Council Vice President Nelson Rockefeller conducted a series of meetings around the country to gauge public domestic policy concerns. Hanzlik handled the logistics, staff, and records of proceedings but not policy evaluation or follow-up. A small portion of this file concerns Hanzlik's work as an assistant to Stephen McConahey handling intergovernmental relations. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container …
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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.
Hartmann's Role in the Ford White House
Gerald R. Ford appointed his long-time aide Robert Hartmann as Counsellor to the President (with…
Counsellor to the President Hartmann, a senior adviser to the President, oversaw the work of the White House Editorial Staff and White House liaison with Republican Party organizations. His files concern the drafting of presidential speeches, statements, messages, and correspondence; political affairs, especially Republican Party liaison and the 1976 presidential election; presidential appointments to federal government positions; the appointment of a new Vice President in 1974; and a wide variety of …
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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.After working privately in the corporate and law worlds, Roderick Hills assumed the position of Counsel to the President in March 1975. Filling…
Counsel to the President; Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Corporate Executive and Attorney Materials from his work in the Ford White House and the Securities and Exchange Commission. They concern economics, federal government regulation of financial institutions and businesses, the SEC, and corporate governance. Additional papers concerning his post-government career remain unprocessed and closed to research. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter …
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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…
Special Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary’s Office Materials primarily related to the daily administration of White House Office spending, personnel actions and allocations, office space, passes, equipment, mess privileges and other perquisites, and more. Some material relates to other Executive branch personnel appointments or to administration of the Executive Office of the President. Additionally, there is an extensive set of formal briefing papers for Presidential meetings and events, …
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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…
Executive Secretary, Presidential Clemency Board Materials on the administration of the Presidential Clemency Board covering such matters as budget/finance, personnel, training, board organization and workflow, and public comments. Documents include regulations, meeting minutes, training manuals, decision lists, and pardon recommendations. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Audiovisual Material Transferred from the Textual Collection. …