News
Notes
for
Ford
Library
Researchers
- 2008
October 6, 2008
The Library staff has compiled a new subject guide titled Core
Collections on Energy Policy.
September 25, 2008
The Library has opened to research additional materials relating to
U.S. relations with the People's Republic of China and the Republic of
China on Taiwan from the Kissinger-Scowcroft West
Wing Office Files and the NSC East Asia
and Pacific Affair Staff Files. The newly opened materials consist
of documents showing direct communications between U.S. and China officials,
1973-75, and working files of the National Security Council staff members
who focused on relations with China and Taiwan. The files cover a broad
range of subjects within the context of the normalization process, including:
the Vietnam War, détente and the Soviet Union, Taiwan, President
Ford’s trip to China, domestic issues faced by both countries,
Korea, the appointments and
tenures of George H. W. Bush and Thomas Gates as Chiefs of the United States
Liaison Office in Peking, and visits of U.S. congressional delegations
to China. See a description of the Library's core
holdings concerning China and Taiwan.
September 15, 2008
Deadline for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research
Travel Grants. For more information about the grants contact William
McNitt.
July 1, 2008
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library is proud to announce
that Adam M. Saunders has been chosen as the 2008 winner of the
Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter. Mr.
Saunders is a doctoral student in Comparative Social Policy at
Trinity College, University of Oxford and is completing his doctoral
dissertation: Power and the Welfare State: The
Political Economy of American and British Unemployment Insurance Reform, 1964-1986. He
is examining the role of government, business and unions in the reform of earnings-related
unemployment insurance in the United States and Britain. He explores
why earnings-related benefits were introduced at the beginning of this period,
why they were fundamentally changed by its end, and why contradictory measures
in policy were undertaken in both countries. See additional
information about this award.
June 1, 2008
The Library announced the list of recipients of Gerald
R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants from the spring meeting of the grants
screening committee.
April 3, 2008
The Library has opened to research the
Mildred V. Leonard Files (8.4 feet). The bulk of the collection is
routine personal correspondence between President Ford (or Mildred
Leonard on his behalf) and his family, friends, colleagues, and former
constituents. Many of these
letters are congratulatory in nature, but some also express opinions of the
Nixon pardon and other events and policies and “get well soon” wishes
for Mrs. Ford. Access
to the materials requires advance consultation with an archivist before a visit
to the Library in order to request that specific folders be added to the Library’s review-for-access
queue. For more information and the container listing see the collection finding
aid.
March 15, 2008
Deadline
for
the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research
Travel Grants. For more information about the grants contact William
McNitt.
February 22, 2008
The State Department Historian's Office recently
has published the first five "Ford Administration" volumes
in its Foreign Relations of the United States series. These
are the first fruits of several years research in classified
collections at the Ford Library by teams of State Department
historians. The new volumes concern: China (1973-76); Cyprus-Greece-Turkey
(1973-76); European Security (1969-76); South Asia (1973-76); and sub-Saharan
Africa with exception of Southern Africa (1973-76).
All volumes are published online on the
FRUS web site.
For information about additional declassified materials at the Ford Library
see the finding aids for the National
Security Adviser's files or contact the Library by e-mail.
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