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The Kissinger-Scowcroft West Wing Office Files is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. These files were maintained in the National Security Adviser's West Wing Office or in offices by the Situation Room in the White House basement. They were kept available for ready access because they contained sensitive, high level material involving ongoing…
An unusually rich file of material from the White House West Wing office of the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Included are communications at the highest levels between the United States and countries such as the Soviet Union, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Great Britain, France, West Germany, and China. Topics include the Vietnam War, arms control negotiations, détente, the Cyprus crisis, the process of normalizing relations with China, Middle East peace negotiations, status of Berlin, …
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Virginia H. Knauer joined the Nixon administration staff in April 1969 as Chairman of the President’s Committee on Consumer Interests (PCCI) and Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs. President Nixon named Knauer Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) when it replaced PCCI in 1971. Knauer remained head of the OCA after it was absorbed by the Department of Health,…
Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs, Office of Public Liaison, and, Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare This collection contains materials relating to Virginia Knauer's work as Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs under the Nixon and Ford administrations. The materials document consumer programs, budget development, and implementation of the President's Consumer Representation Plan, as well as related speeches, press releases …
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Kenneth Lazarus joined the White House staff in December 1974 as Associate Counsel to the President. Lazarus reviewed a wide array of issues and topics for possible legal problems. He facilitated, evaluated, or assessed substantive policy, legislative programs, enrolled bills, proclamations, executive orders, agency actions where law required presidential approval, executive privilege,…
Associate Counsel to the President, Office of Council to the President Material on advice given to the President, White House staff, and First Family on legal matters, domestic and foreign issues, presidential powers, and personnel matters. Prominent topics include legislation, White House liaison with agencies and departments of the federal government, presidential appointments, including the Supreme Court nomination of Justice John Paul Stevens, executive-legislative relations, and White House …
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Wolfgang Lehmann had a long and distinguished career in the Foreign Service, but this collection focuses narrowly on the time he spent in South Vietnam (1973-1975), especially the closing months of the Vietnam War and the evacuation from Saigon in April 1975. During his last year in South Vietnam, Lehmann served as the deputy to Ambassador Graham Martin.The collection does not contain…
U.S. Minister to the Republic of Vietnam and Deputy Chief of Mission Materials focusing on Lehmann’s service as Deputy U.S. Ambassador in Saigon and the closing months of the Vietnam War, especially the final evacuation from Saigon in April 1975. Included are two oral history transcripts, some declassified State Department cables, documents written or collected by Lehmann concerning these events, Saigon newspapers and maps, and photographs. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter …
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The Macdonald papers partially document his work in the Department of the Treasury between April 1974 and September 1976 and his subsequent brief tenure with the Department of the Navy until the end of the Ford administration. The primary focus is on foreign trade and tariff matters and federal law enforcement activities, although the collection includes information on a number of other…
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs; Under Secretary of the Navy Case files containing background materials and drafts for speeches and testimony from his work in both the Department of the Treasury and the Department of the Navy. In addition, the collection includes a chronological file of his outgoing Treasury memoranda and correspondence, routine personal correspondence, and Treasury Department news summaries from the Carter administration. View in NARA …
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In September and October 1974, Paul W. McCracken served a three-week appointment as consultant to Kenneth Rush, Counsellor to the President for Economic Policy. Rush was also Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Conference on Inflation, formed jointly from the executive and congressional branches. L. William Seidman was executive director of the Conference on Inflation and became the…
Consultant to Counsellor Rush, Counsellors to the President Materials on economic policy and conditions accumulated during McCracken's three-week appointment to help with the 1974 Conference on Inflation and Ford's subsequent special economic address. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Conference on Inflation Subject File, 1974. Filter Folders by Status Open Closed Digitized Reset Filters Container List Collection Overview Scope and …
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When Rogers Morton was appointed as Counsellor to the President on February 2, 1976, the White House stated that he would serve as Counsellor to the President with Cabinet rank responsible for providing advice on domestic and economic issues; member of the Economic Policy Board, Energy Resources Council, and Domestic Council; and principal White House liaison with the President Ford Committee (…
Counsellor to the President for Political Affairs Material concerning the work of Morton and his assistant Timothy Austin in advising the President in the period between February and April 1976. As a Counsellor to the President, Morton often advised the President on a variety of issues, but his files focus on political affairs, especially White House liaison with the Republican National Committee and the President Ford Committee and the Ford - Reagan contest for the Republican presidential nomination. View …
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Paul Myer, former administrative assistant to U.S. Congressman Herman Badillo, began working for the Domestic Council on August 1, 1975, was promoted to Assistant Director on November 23, 1975, and then to Associate Director on September 30, 1976. Myer was part of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, headed by Stephen G. McConahey. Myer's area of responsibility was almost entirely…
Associate Director for General Revenue Sharing, Domestic Council Office files on the General Revenue Sharing program. View in NARA catalog Series Description and Container List Filter by Keyword Filter by Series All Series Publications. State Series, 1974-76. Subject Series, 1974-76. Filter Folders by Status Open Closed Digitized Reset Filters Container List Collection Overview Scope and Content Note Paul Myer, former administrative assistant to U.S. Congressman Herman Badillo, began working for the …
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The Ron Nessen Papers consist of materials which Nessen took home from the White House at the end of the Ford administration presumably to assist in writing his memoir It Sure Looks Different From the Inside (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1978). Mr. Nessen donated the bulk of his papers to the Ford Library on January 22, 1979. In October 1992 he donated an accretion of papers (boxes 294-300). The…
Press Secretary to the President Substantive materials on press strategy and relations, the organization of the press secretary's office, the 1976 presidential campaign, and domestic and foreign policy issues comprise much of the collection. The remainder includes invitations, extensive runs of press releases and press wire copy, and other routine documentation. Accretions of papers, consisting of handwritten notes from numerous meetings and briefings, additional press office subject files, and …
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Material compiled by NSC Staff Secretary Jeanne Davis in response to requests by congressional committees and presidential commissions for access to documents held by the NSC, CIA, Department of Defense, Department of State, and other agencies. The major focus is the 1975-1976 investigations of abuses by the intelligence community, but other series concern the Murphy Commission and the General Accounting Office investigation of the Mayaguez incident. Most of this collection is unprocessed and closed to …