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News Notes for Ford Library Researchers - 2006
September 15, 2006
Application deadline for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants.
August 16, 2006
The Library declassified and opened an additional calendar (detailed
listing and description) of documents concerning Laos in the Melvin
Laird Papers. The newly opened calendar covers documents received and sent by Defense
Secretary Laird between September 1969 and December 1971. The calendar can be used to submit Mandatory Review requests for the possible declassification of the documents on the lists.
July 28, 2006
The Library processed and opened most of the U.S. National Security Council: Institutional
Files, 1974-1977. The collection
consists of Ford-era files retained by the NSC until the end of the Clinton
administration to provide continuity of government. Materials relate
in large part to preparation of National Security Decision Memoranda and
National Security Study Memoranda; briefing papers for and minutes of NSC
committee, panel, and working group meetings; and the history, organization,
and administration of the NSC. The collection is not yet fully described
in the PRESNET database, so folders do not appear on PRESNET search reports
except through keyword searching on folder titles. For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
July 20, 2006
The Library processed and opened additional material
in
the
Robert
M.
Teeter
Papers in
2005,
but
a
news
note
was
not
added
to
this
page. Please
see
the
note
for
August
1,
2005.
June 19, 2006
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce that Benjamin C. Waterhouse has been chosen as the 2006 winner of the Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter. Mr. Waterhouse is a doctoral student at Harvard University and is completing his doctoral dissertation: Corporate Leaders and the Pro-Business Agenda in Modern American Politics. He is investigating how the American business community mobilized in the 1970s and 1980s to pursue business-friendly policies through legislation and public opinion. For more information about this award please visit our website.
May 30, 2006
The Library announced the list of recipients of
Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants from the spring meeting
of the grants screening committee.
May 22, 2006
The Library has processed and opened the U. S.
Marine Corps. History and Museums Division: Copies of Oral Histories on
the Mayaguez Action and Related Marine Unit Operational Records, 1965-1977.
The collection was created by the Marine Corps Historical Center, from
its digitized holdings, at the suggestion of an associate of former President
Ford. It includes compact disks of oral histories (audio files
only) with Marines who participated in the Mayaguez action.
It also includes compact disks containing Marine unit operational records
from the Mayaguez action. These disks, as an incidental
by-product of their creation, also contain extensive operational records
from the Marine units' participation in other phases of the Vietnam War. Most
of these records date from 1965-1970, but some concern the evacuations
of Phnom Penh and Saigon, and the later transfer of refugees to the United
States. The Ford Library staff has printed to paper, as an additional
convenience to researchers, all operational records that date from the
Ford presidency. For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
May 5, 2006
The Library has processed and opened three folders from the National
Security Adviser. Presidential Briefing Material for VIP Visits collection. The
open folders concern the visit by Prime Minister den Uyl of the Netherlands
on May 14, 1975. The rest of the collection remains unprocessed and closed
to research.
May 1, 2006
Deadline for the "Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award (Dissertation
Award) in Honor of Robert Teeter." For more information about the Award
contact Joshua Cochran.
April 4, 2006
The Library has processed and opened the Bruce
Wagner Papers. The collection
concerns his work as Vice President and Chief Operating Office of Campaign
'76 Media Communications, Inc. (the advertising arm of President Ford's 1976
election campaign committee). The focus is on political advertising during
the 1976 primaries. For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
March 27, 2006
The Library has processed and opened the Russell
H. Armentrout Files.
The collection concerns his work as Director of the Social Entertainments
Office of the the First Lady's Staff. It concerns the arrangements for all
social events at the White House, Camp David, aboard the Presidential yacht,
and occasionally during State visits abroad. The collection also concerns
First Family Christmas card mailings and Christmas events. For more details
on the collection, view its finding
aid.
March 15, 2006
Deadline
for
the Gerald
R. Ford
Foundation
Research
Travel
Grants.
January 3, 2006
The Library has processed an accretion to the Robert
Horn Papers.
The papers concern Horn's work as Executive Secretary of the Presidential
Clemency Board. Included in the accretion are Clemency Board meeting minutes,
decision lists, and recommendations to President Ford. Access requires significant
advanced planning with archives staff through the Review-for-Access
Queue. For more details on the collection, view its finding
aid.
See News Notes for Ford Library Researchers for the year 2005
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