Selected External Sources

• Ford Daily Diary

• Presidential Handwriting File

• Presidential Speeches Reading Copies

• Press Secretary's Press Briefing Transcripts

• Richard Cheney Files (numerous domestic policy, foreign policy, and political issues)

• White House Press Releases

• Betty Ford speeches (from the files of speechwriter Kaye Pullen)

• Gerald and Betty Ford's Trips and Events

• Cabinet meeting minutes

• Printed autographs

• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century

• Public Papers of the Presidents - Search Screen

• Public Papers of the Presidents - Ford Speeches List

• Clay Whitehead Papers (Nixon-Ford Transition)

Audiovisual Collections

• White House photographs contact sheets

• Bill Roberts audio diary, July-September 1974

Audiovisual Collections

• Ford speeches (audio files)

• Selected White House photographs

Audiovisual Collections

• Selected Ford audiovisual files (see Media Gallery)

• Betty Ford: The Real Deal (PBS documentary)

Selected External Sources

• Henry Kissinger Public Papers (speeches, testimony, and press conferences)

• Presidential Correspondence with Foreign Leaders

• National Security Council Meetings

• Kissinger Reports on USSR, China, and Middle East Discussions

• Memoranda of Conversations

• National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda

• White House State Dinners

• Visits to Mao's China

• Vladivostok (USSR) Summit Meeting on Arms Control, 1974

• Intelligence community investigations and reforms

• Helsinki Agreement

• Vietnam War (selected documents)

• Operation Babylift (Vietnam orphan airlift)

• Closing weeks of the Vietnam War (exhibit)

• "A Day in the Life of a President" (April 28, 1975 - the day Saigon fell)

• Department of State telegrams

• Donald Rumsfeld Papers (specify category "Ford - Secretary of Defense (13)")

• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) - Ford volumes

• Nixon Administration National Security Study Memoranda and National Security Decision Memoranda

• General Accounting Office report on seizure of the Mayaguez

• CIA declassified study of Director William Colby

• Helsinki final act web resource

Selected External Sources

• Bradley Patterson files on Native Americans

• White House Special Files Unit Presidential Files (re campaign debates, selected issues, Federal budget)

• Energy advisor Frank Zarb Papers

• President Ford Committee Weekly Reports to the President (from the Richard Cheney Files)

• Establishment and First Uses of the 25th Amendment

• 1976 presidential campaign (Ford vs. Reagan and Ford vs. Carter)

• Benton Becker history of the Nixon pardon

• Swine flu immunization program

• Ford and the Supreme Court

• Donald Rumsfeld Papers (specify categories beginning with "Ford")

• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 1969-1975

• Arthur Burns speeches

Selected External Sources

• University of Michigan Law School (Ford student file for summer classes, 1937)

• Frederica Pantlind Papers (re Ford at University of Michigan and Yale University)

• Grand Rapids Oral Histories (on Ford's early life and 1948 campaign)

• Investigatory records on Ford's application for Navy commission, 1941

• President and Mrs. Ford in the U.S. Census

• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century

• Gerald R. Ford's Scouting Years booklet

Audiovisual Collections

• White House Photographic Office Series H (Gerald and Betty Ford historical photos - childhood through Vice Presidency)

Audiovisual Collections

• Media photo kit - Young Jerry Ford

• Media photo kit - Young Betty Ford

Selected External Sources

• Vice President Ford's foreign and diplomatic meetings

• GOP congressional leaders meetings with Pres. Nixon, 1969-73

• Ford congressional newsletters, 1950-73

• Arthur Burns journals transcript, 1969-74 (re Nixon White House/Federal Reserve)

• Republican Congressional Cook Book, ca. 1962

• Visit to China, 1972

• Remarks on impeachment of Justice William Douglas, April 15, 1970

• Remarks after swearing-in as Vice President, Dec. 6, 1973

• Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century

• Ford oral history on JFK presidency & Warren Commission, 2003

• Joint Republican congressional leadership press conference transcripts, 1965-68 ("Ev and Jerry Shows")

• Republican congressional leaders meeting minutes, 1965-68

• Ford conversations on White House Tapes, 1963-71(sample - use search box to locate more)

• Ford letter to Nixon on a replacement for Vice President Agnew

• Ford speech - Univ. of Michigan Commencement, May 4, 1974

• Warren Commission report on Kennedy assassination

• Oral history with Ford neighbor in Alexandria, VA

• Benton Becker remarks on Ford VP confirmation heearings

Audiovisual Collections

• Bill Roberts audio diary, July-September 1974

• White House Photographic Office Series H (Gerald and Betty Ford historical photographs childhood through Vice Presidency)

Audiovisual Collections

• Audio file of swearing-in as Vice President (WAV file or MP3)

• Media photo kit - Congressional years

• Media photo kit - Betty Ford

Audiovisual Collections

• Audio files of joint Republican congressional leadership press conferences, 1965-68 ("Ev and Jerry Shows")

Selected External Sources

• Selected speeches and writings

• Transcript of Ford live chat with students, 1995

Audiovisual Collections

• Media photo kit - President Ford

• Media photo kit - Betty Ford