Library holdings include more than 25 million pages of documents, about 450,000 photographs, and thousands of audiotapes, videotapes, and films. The Library is working toward making more of this massive collection available to researchers via the Internet. Through the links below researchers can view documents on our website, documents on other websites, photographs/audio/video, or on-line exhibits.

Documents on our website

• Foreign Affairs/National Security Memoranda of Presidential Conversations



• National Security Study Memoranda and Decision Memoranda



• National Security Council Meeting Minutes



• Cabinet Meeting Minutes



• President Ford's Daily Diary (under construction)



• Transcription of the Arthur Burns Private Journals, 1969-1974 (under construction)



• Selected Gerald R. Ford speeches and writings



• Selected Betty Ford Speeches
  
  
• Benton Becker 1974 Memo on the history and background of the Nixon Pardon
  
  
• Selected documents on the swine flu immunization program
  
  
• Selected documents on the 1976 presidential campaign



• Selected documents on the Vietnam War



• Selected documents on intelligence reforms and investigations

Documents on other Websites

• Public Papers of the Presidents
  (on the American Presidency Project website - contains all speeches, press conferences and remarks)



• Transcripts of Henry Kissinger Telephone Conversations
  (on the Department of State website - click on Kissinger Transcripts and use the Search box at the bottom)



• Department of State Telegrams (through December 31, 1975)
  (on the National Archives website)



• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Volumes
  (on the Department of State website)



• National Archives Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
  (to search for Ford Library documents, select Search Options, then Digital Copies, then Advanced Search (and specify Textual Records as the Type of Archival Materials and the Ford Library as the Location of Archival Materials)



• Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Press Conferences ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-1968
  (Published transcripts on the Dirksen Congressional Center website)

Photographs, Audio, and Video

• Media Photo Kits
  (high resolution photographs of Gerald and Betty Ford from various time periods)



• Gerald and Betty Ford Historical Photographs
  (childhood through Vice Presidency)



• Selected White House Photographs



• Selected photographs and audio/video files
  (from the Media Gallery of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation website)



• Gerald Ford and Bo Schembechler photographs



• National Archives Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
  (to search for Ford Library photographs, select Search Options, then Digital Copies, then Advanced Search and specify Photographs as the Type of Archival Materials and the Ford Library as the Location of Archival Materials)



• Joint Republican Congressional Leadership Press Conferences ("Ev and Jerry Shows"), 1965-1968
  (audio files, with transcripts and press releases, for nine of the press conferences on the Dirksen Congressional Center website)

On-line Exhibits

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



• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
  (on the Presidential Timeline website - includes a Gerald Ford timeline and exhibits on the closing weeks of the Vietnam War and on President Ford and the Supreme Court)



• Entertaining Royalty: The State Dinner for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip