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National Security Adviser

Presidential Name File, 1974-1977

Summary Description

Materials created or received by National Security Advisers Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or person discussed. This collection contains two main categories of material: correspondence with people outside the Ford administration relating to national security or foreign affairs questions; and internal government memos or letters on administrative matters, such as personnel, rather than national security policy.

QUANTITY

1.2 linear feet (ca. 2,400 pages)

DONOR

Gerald R. Ford (accession number 77-118)

ACCESS

Open. Some items are temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).

COPYRIGHT

Gerald Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.

Prepared by Karen Holzhausen, June 1991; Revised March 2000

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INTRODUCTION

The Presidential Name File is one of many subcollections that comprise the National Security Adviser Files. The provenance and nature of the National Security Adviser Files as a whole are described in Appendix A.

The Name File comprises material filed by the name of an individual. Most of the documents were sent or received by either Henry Kissinger, as National Security Adviser to the President, or Brent Scowcroft, as Kissinger's deputy and then National Security Adviser himself. It is not apparent why these documents were filed by name rather than in subject files within the larger series of the Kissinger-Scowcroft Files, or in White House Central Files. It may be that they are often about an individual or about an individual's personal interest in a topic.

There are two main categories of material: (1) correspondence with people outside the Ford administration relating to national security or foreign affairs questions, and (2) internal government memos or letters on administrative matters, such as personnel, rather than national security policy.

The series includes folders for 103 individuals. The following groups are represented most often: U.S. senators, White House staff members, military officers, U.S. ambassadors, and religious leaders. Former government officials, unofficial presidential advisers, and journalists are also represented, as well as a few members of the general public.

It is difficult to characterize the subject matter of this series except to say that it is broad-ranging. Nearly every national security or foreign affairs issue crops up at least once, but there is not much depth on any given issue. General topics touched on most often are: U.S./Soviet relations, particularly in regard to Soviet emigration policies; the Middle East conflict; Vietnam; and the Greece/Turkey/Cyprus situation. Foreign aid, arms control and test ban issues, China/Taiwan, Angola, foreign base negotiations, and the intelligence investigations are subjects of correspondence several times. Administrative matters, such as paperwork for medals, awards, and promotions, are the subject of several folders relating to military officers.

On initial processing in 1991, approximately 28% of this series was found to be security classified or unmarked national security information (117 documents, 439 pages, out of 1600 pages). Eight documents were removed as donor restricted.

Related Materials (June 1991):

Similar material may be found in most of the Library's collections. The

President's Handwriting File and White House Central Files, as well as other

series of the Kissinger-Scowcroft Files, have materials on most of the topics represented in this series.

Series Descriptions

1-3 Name File, 1974-77. (1.2 linear feet)

Letters, memoranda, telegrams, memoranda of conversations, agendas, biographies, briefing papers, talking points, reports, transcripts of speeches, and newspaper clippings. Most of the documents were sent or received by either Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. The material is almost exclusively from the Ford administration, with only a few documents brought forth from the end of the Nixon administration, and relates to a wide variety of foreign affairs topics and administrative matters.

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or person discussed.

Container List

Box 1 Name File

Aaron, Major General Harold R.

Abourezk, Senator James

Anderson, Jack

Andrus, Cecil D.

Ash, Arthur

Bailey, Pearl

Blanchard, James

Boerma, Addeke

Brooke, Senator Edward

Bruce, David K.E.

Buckley, Senator James L.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Colby, William E.

Cooke, Cardinal Terence J.

Davis, Jeanne

Davis, Nathaniel

Denktash, Rauf

Doty, Paul

Eaton, Cyrus

Fisher, Max

Fodor, Eugene

Fulbright, William J.

Gates, Robert M.

Gayler, Admiral Noel A.M.

Gearhart, Daniel

Girsh, Mila

Goldberg, Arthur

Goldman, Dr. Guido

Goldwater, Barry

Goodpaster, General Andrew

Granger, Clinton E.

Halperin, Morton H.

Helms, Richard

Hersh, Seymour

Hertzberg, Rabbi Arthur

Box 2 Name File

Hoose, Harned

Hosmer, Craig

Iakovos, Archbishop

Jackson, Senator Henry M.

Javits, Senator Jacob

Judd, Walter H.

Kendall, Donald

Kennan, George

Kintner, William R.

Korff, Rabbi Baruch

Kraemer, Sven

Laird, Melvin

Leopold, Dr. Irving H.

Macomber, William B.

MacDonald, Donald A.

Mansfield, Senator Mike

Marsh, Jack

Martin, Graham

McCain, Admiral John S. Jr.

McClellan, Woodford

McCloy, John J.

McCone, John

McCrary, John Reagan ("Tex")

McFarlane, Robert C. (Bud)

Meany, George

Medeiros, Cardinal Humberto

Miller, Rabbi Israel

Miller, Paul

Morgan, William J.

Moynihan, Daniel P.

Nunn, Senator Sam

Oakley, Robert

Ogden, Alan

Paley, William

Pappas, Thomas

Passman, Otto

Pastore, Senator John O.

Box 3 Name File

Ray, Robert

Rebozo, Bebe

Robertson, Edwin W.

Rostow, Eugene V.

Rumsfeld, Don

Rusk, Dean

Saunders, Harold

Schlesinger, James R.

Scott, Senator Hugh

Scowcroft, Brent

Shadrin, Blanka E.

Shelton, Turner B.

Shultz, George P.

Sidey, Hugh

Smyser, W.R.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.

Sonnenfeldt, Hal

Sparkman, Senator John

Spell, William E.

Stafford, Tom

Teller, Dr. Edward

Thomas, Lowell

Thompson, Sir Robert

Thurmond, Senator Strom

Turner, Admiral Stansfield

Vogel, Wolfgang

Wainwright, John T.

Wallace, George C.

Waller, William L.

Warshaw, D.

Wasserman, Lewis R.