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MARGITA E. WHITE PAPERS, 1975-76 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The Margita White Papers concern her work as White House Assistant Press Secretary between January 1975 and July 1976. During the early months of her service, she worked as deputy to Gerald Warren, Director of the Office of Communications. When he left the White House in the summer of 1975, she succeeded him as Director. The Office of Communications handled relations with media beyond the White House Press …
WHITE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE UNIT: KEY PHRASE AND WORD INDEX TO PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENTS, 1974-77 Extent 31.2 linear feet (ca. 200,000 cards) Scope and Content Note The White House Press Release Unit is one of the permanent White House support operations which serve each President. Supervised during the Ford administration by Mary E. Hooper, Editorial Clerk, the unit worked with the Office of the Press Secretary, receiving draft press releases, reproducing, and distributing them. They compiled a keyword index …
WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL OFFICE NAME FILES, 1974-76 Extent 170.8 linear feet (ca. 341,600 pages) Scope and Content Note RELATED MATERIALS (December 2012) Individual staff office files document the activities of the First Lady’s staff. These include the files of: Russell Armentrout, Maria Downs, Elizabeth O’Neill, Susan Porter, Frances Pullen, and Sheila Weidenfeld. The Library also holds the personal papers of Betty Ford, Maria Downs, Peter Sorum, and Sheila Weidenfeld (unprocessed). The White House Social …
WHITE HOUSE SPECIAL FILES UNIT PRESIDENTIAL FILES, 1974-77 Extent 4.8 linear feet (ca. 9,600 pages) Scope and Content Note These files of the Special Files Unit consist of miscellaneous items accumulated by Gertrude B. Fry on President Ford's preparations for his debates with Jimmy Carter, his review of federal agency budget requests, and selected issues considered sensitive by Fry. Also included is a small file on the administration of the Special Files Unit. The Presidential Handwriting File and other …
National Security Adviser WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM: FORMER PRESIDENT NIXON'S INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS 1974-77 Extent 0.8 linear feet (ca. 1,600 pages) Scope and Content Note The White House Situation Room: Former President Nixon's Intelligence Briefings is one of many sub-collections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance of the Ford National Security Adviser Files and an explanation of the designations “Presidential” and “Institutional” are provided in Appendix A . Soon after …
BRUCE S. WAGNER PAPERS, 1975-76 Extent 2.4 linear feet (ca. 4,800 pages) Scope and Content Note Bruce Wagner came to Campaign ’76 Media Communications at the behest of Chairman Peter H. Dailey in November of 1975. On extended leave from Grey Advertising, Inc., the eighth largest advertising agency in the United States, the 32 year-old Wagner was charged with overseeing the staff and daily operations of the agency, a corporation specifically established to handle President Ford’s advertising for the 1976 …
GERALD L. WARREN AND MARGITA E. WHITE FILES, 1974-77 Extent 14.0 linear feet (ca. 28,000 pages) Scope and Content Note This collection contains the working files of two directors of the White House Office of Communications, Gerald Warren and Margita White, concerning news media liaison and coordination of Federal Government public relations efforts. Discussed below under separate headings are the organization and functions of the White House Office of Communications, the scope and content of the Warren and …
White House Photographic Office Photographs, 1974-1977 Extent Approximately 323,600 images on ca. 14,000 contact sheets and ca. 293,600 negatives. Scope and Content Note The office provided still-photographic coverage of Gerald Ford's day-to-day activities as Vice President and President. David Kennerly, a photojournalist whom Ford met while Vice President, and four other photographers, shot approximately 290,000 photos of Mr. Ford and his staff and family. They took the photos in White House meeting …
AMERICA SINCE HOOVER: SELECTED DOCUMENTS FROM PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES, 1929-80 Extent 3 linear feet (ca. 4,500 pages) and 14 cassette recordings. Record Type Textual Access Open. Copyright For copyright information on any given document, contact the presidential library which holds the original. Prepared: January 1992 Last Modified Date Wed, 03/05/2025 - 12:00 Content Available Online No Summary Description Photostatic copies of memoranda, correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, diary entries, oral …
ROBERT ANDERSON PAPERS, (1946) 1965-95 Extent 16.4 linear feet (approximately 32,800 pages) Scope and Content Note During his long career in the Foreign Service, Robert Anderson served in a succession of posts both overseas and in Washington, culminating in his work as Special Assistant for Press Relations to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and as U.S. Ambassador to three different countries. His papers cover mostly the public face of diplomacy - speeches, remarks, testimony, trips, and events. The …
RUSSELL H. ARMENTROUT FILES, (1973) 1974-77 Extent 30 linear feet (ca. 60,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The collection encompasses the Ford White House files of Social Entertainments Office directors Sanford L. Fox and his March 1975 successor, Russell H. Armentrout. Supervised by Maria Downs, Mrs. Ford’s Social Secretary, Fox and Armentrout oversaw two assistant chiefs (William T. Gemmell for calligraphy, and Janice M. Ingersoll for arrangements), one calligrapher/graphic designer (John J. Scarfone), …
PAUL A. THEIS PAPERS, (1949) 1960-1975 (1990) Extent 8.4 linear feet (ca.16,800 pages) Scope and Content Note The Paul A. Theis Papers are mainly a collection of materials accumulated during Theis’ 1960-74 tenure with the Republican National Congressional Committee where he served first as director of the radio-television division and subsequently as Director of the Division of Public Relations. Paul Theis served as Executive Editor in the White House Editorial Office from August, 1974 until January, 1976. …
WILLIAM E. TIMMONS FILES, 1969-74 Extent 9.2 linear feet (ca. 18,400 pages) Scope and Content Note The William E. Timmons Files consist of memoranda, correspondence, briefing papers, notes and reports on legislation compiled by Timmons and his assistant Powell Moore from August to December 1974, and Timmons' routine personal correspondence from 1969 to 1974. During the first five months of the Ford administration, Timmons continued to head the White House Congressional Relations Office, as he had done …
MYRON B. KUROPAS FILES, 1976-77 Extent 5.2 linear feet (ca. 10,400 pages) Scope and Content Note Myron B. Kuropas joined the White House staff in January 1976 as Special Assistant for Ethnic Affairs. This newly created position was assigned to the Office of Public Liaison (OPL) and reported directly to William J. Baroody, Jr. Kuropas was responsible for White House liaison with leaders of major ethnic organizations, including fraternal, civic, religious and academic associations. He met with …
DAVID R. GERGEN FILES, 1974-77 Extent 12.4 linear feet (ca. 24,800 pages) Scope and Content Note David Gergen, a former Nixon speechwriter, as a speechwriter for Secretary of the Treasury, William Simon in December returned to the White House as special assistant to Ford's chief of staff, Richard Cheney, leaving his position in the Treasury Department 1975. His title was changed to Special Counsel to the President for Communications and until July 1976 his primary responsibility was drafting presidential …
WILLIAM GOROG FILES, 1975-76 Extent 3.8 linear feet (ca. 7,600 pages) Scope and Content Note William F. Gorog, a businessman and developer of the computerized legal research system, LEXIS, joined the Ford administration as deputy to L. William Seidman, Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs in May 1975. In March 1976 his title was changed from Deputy Director for Domestic Economic Policy to Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs. From November 1976 until the end of the …
MELVIN R. LAIRD PAPERS, (1941) 1953-2004 Extent 132 linear feet (ca. 264,000 pages), 224 microfilm cartridges, 7 microfilm reels, and 4 oversize volumes. Scope and Content Note Melvin R. Laird, Jr. was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew up in the town of Marshfield in central Wisconsin where his family moved when he was a year old. His family had deep roots in Wisconsin politics and business, with both of his parents and his maternal grandfather all holding elective office. After his father's death in …
JAMES M. CANNON PAPERS, 1974-79 Extent 16 linear feet (ca. 32,000 pages) Scope and Content Note The papers of James M. Cannon, 1974-79, relate to his brief service as an assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and to his dual role of Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Executive Director of the Domestic Council, 1975-77. Well documented topics include Vice President Rockefeller's role in the Ford Administration, a small number of key issues (especially those Cannon Worked on toward …
JAMES H. CAVANAUGH FILES, 1974-76 Extent 2.0 linear feet (ca. 4,000 pages) Scope and Content Note Dr. James H. Cavanaugh joined the Domestic Council staff in 1971 to assist in the development of health policy and programs. Appointed in 1973 as Associate Director for Human Resources, he helped to develop and coordinate the President's domestic policy in the areas of health, education, welfare, labor and veterans affairs. His duties were again augmented the following year when he was appointed Deputy …
LEO CHERNE PAPERS, (1969) 1973-77 (1986) Extent 3.6 linear feet (ca. 7,200 pages) Scope and Content Note Leo Cherne's career spanned more than fifty years. Cherne, an economist, first gained prominence in the private sector, as Executive Director of the Research Institute of America, founded to translate complex government legislation for the businessman; Chairman of the Executive Committee of Freedom House, established to advance the struggle for freedom at home and abroad; and Chairman of the …