Oral Histories in the Gerald R. Ford Library

The Ford Presidential Library acquires interview records created by journalists, historians, political scientists, memoirists and their research assistants, independent writers, and others. We are very grateful to these donors for making their research materials available to future generations. The Library also has a relatively small number of interviews created by National Archives staff, sometimes with Gerald R. Ford Foundation funding.

The list below cites oral history and comparable interview records (whether a transcript, a tape/CD, or a researcher's written summary) now available to research. A large number of additional interview records, not listed and not now open to research, are at the Library in unprocessed or partly processed collections. Some of these unprocessed interviews have donor or interviewee-imposed access restrictions.

There was no major Ford Library Oral History Project. Moreover, the Ford White House discontinued a Nixon-era program by which National Archives staff conducted oral history exit interviews with departing White House staff.

Interviewee and Date	Collection	Pages
Allen, Richard - 10/27/77	REICHLEY	5
Allen, Richard - 10/27/77	PEABODY	13
Anderson, John - 3 Interviews, 1965-66	REICHLEY	4
Anderson, John - 9/21/77	REICHLEY	4
Anderson, Martin - 1/3/78	REICHLEY	9
Ash, Roy - 4/30/78	REICHLEY	11
Ash, Roy - 1/13/88 & 8/4/88	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	143
Bailey, Douglas - 1/7/77	DEVLIN	15
Baker, James - 12/15/80	REICHLEY	7
Baker, James - 8/27/79	REICHLEY	2
Baroody, William - 3 Interviews, 1965-66	PEABODY	10
Baroody, William - 9/27/77	REICHLEY	8
Baroody, William J., Jr. - 2/6/85	SYERS	7
Bayh, Birch - 9/9/77	REICHLEY	3
BeLieu, Kenneth - 9/13/77	REICHLEY	4
Bell, Alphonzo - 1/11/65	PEABODY	5
Brock, William - 9/22/77	REICHLEY	4
Brown, Arthur - 1/26/80	GRAND RAPIDS	30
Brown, Clarence - 9/13/77	REICHLEY	4
Buchanan, Patrick - 9/13/77	REICHLEY	4
Buchen, Philip - 9/1/77	REICHLEY	7
Buchen, Philip - 1/18/80 [Covers only the years 1938-48]	GRAND RAPIDS & BUCHEN PAPERS	26
Buchen, Philip W. - 3/13/85	SYERS & BUCHEN PAPERS	12
Budde, Bernadette - 11/17/80	REICHLEY	4
Burns, Arthur - 9/21/77	REICHLEY	7
Bush, George - 1/12/81	REICHLEY	7
Butler, Pat - 6/27/85	SYERS	9
Butler, Steward - 12/15/80	REICHLEY	6
Byrnes, John - 3/22/65	PEABODY	15
Byrnes, John - 11/2/77	REICHLEY	8
Cannon, James - 3/1/78	REICHLEY	5
Carlson, John G. - 5/2/90	ROZELL	10
Cashen, Henry - 10/11/77	REICHLEY	5
Casselman, William - 10/28/77	REICHLEY	4
Cavanaugh, James - 3/8/78	REICHLEY	4
Cavanaugh, James - Interview Notes, 4/76	HYDE-WAYNE	6
Chanock, Foster - 12/2/76	HYDE-WAYNE	20
Cheney, Richard - 6/27/75	HYDE-WAYNE	28
Cheney, Richard - 2/8/77	HYDE-WAYNE	42
Cheney, Richard - 5/20/77	REICHLEY	2
Cheney, Richard - 5/19/85 (closed to research)	SYERS	11
Clapp, Charles - 8/25/77	REICHLEY	4
Clark, Kay - 1/28/80	GRAND RAPIDS	23
Cole, Kenneth - 12/21/77	REICHLEY	8
Coleman, William - 12/19/77	REICHLEY	8
Conable, Barber - 9/13/77	REICHLEY	4
Conable, Barber - 12/16/80	REICHLEY	5
Conable, Barber - 2/1/85	SYERS	8
Connally, John - 8/27/79	REICHLEY	9
Connor, James - ca. 11/76	HYDE-WAYNE	15
Connor, James - 10/19/77	REICHLEY	5
Conte, Silvio - 2 Interviews, 1965-66	PEABODY	9
Cook, Richard - 9/16/77	REICHLEY	8
Cotiaux, Neil - 10/28/80	REICHLEY	5
Coughlin, Larry - 10/26/77	REICHLEY	3
Cowen, Eugene - 10/5/77	REICHLEY	6
Cramer, William - 4/12/65	PEABODY	9
Crane, Philip - 1/30/78	REICHLEY	5
Crane, Philip - 11/20/80	REICHLEY	4
Curtis, Thomas - 2 Interviews, 1965	PEABODY	32
Danforth, John - 1/7/81	REICHLEY	5
Davis, Glenn R. - 3/6/85	SYERS	6
Dent, Harry - 4/3/78	REICHLEY	8
Devine, Samuel - 11/1/77	REICHLEY	4
Dole, Robert - 9/9/77	REICHLEY	5
Eckhardt, Bob - 10/14/77	REICHLEY	4
Edwards, Jack - 8/5/66	PEABODY	14
Ehrlichman, John - 5/6/83	U.S. NASA	40
Ellsworth, Robert - 3 Interviews, 1965-66	PEABODY	16
Ellsworth, Robert - 9/1/77	REICHLEY	4
Engman, Lewis - 2/17/78	REICHLEY	5
Finch, Robert - 3/8/78	REICHLEY	7
Findley, Paul - 3/30/65	PEABODY	8
Fleming, Harry - 8/29/77	REICHLEY	9
Fletcher, James - 12/27/72	U.S. NASA	35
Fletcher, James - 9/21/77	U.S. NASA	100
Ford, Betty (and children)	PFC Box E41	100
Ford, Gerald - 3/8/78	REICHLEY	8
Ford, Gerald - Interview re Nelson Rockefeller conducted by Hugh Morrow	CANNON PAPERS	55
Ford, Gerald - Interview re Nelson Rockefeller conducted by Trevor Armbrister (also includes some quotes by Melvin Laird, Donald Rumsfeld, and James Cannon on Rockefeller)	CANNON PAPERS	40
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview by Jerrold L. Schecter re Vietnam, 1986	COMPOSITE GENERAL	5
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview concerning the news media, 12/13/89	ROZELL	5
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview with Randall Lehner re common situs picketing, 1993	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	Tape
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview with Andrew Moran re economic policy, 10/15/93	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	7
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview with Jeffrey King re anti-crime porposals, 9/9/94	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	7
Ford, Gerald R. - Interview by Jack Lessenberry, 2/28/95	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	12
Fortune, Frank - 2/24/65	PEABODY	2
Franklin, ? - 10/28/80	REICHLEY	4
Frenzel, Bill - 10/14/77	REICHLEY	5
Friedersdorf, Max - 10/27/77	REICHLEY	9
Friedersdorf, Max - 4/30/76	HYDE-WAYNE	17
Friedersdorf, Max L. - 9/26/85	SYERS	6
Friedman, Milton (Economist) - 3/9/78	REICHLEY	6
Fulton, James G. - 4/7/65	PEABODY	5
Garment, Leonard - 10/19/77	REICHLEY	5
Gergen, David - 2/21/78	REICHLEY	4
Gifford, Dawn - 11/17/80	REICHLEY	6
Goebel, Paul G. and Margaret E. - 1/25/80	GRAND RAPIDS	16
Goldwin, Robert - 2/27/78	REICHLEY	5
Goodell, Charles - 19 Interviews, 1965-66	PEABODY	88
Goodell, Charles - 8/30/77 (?)	REICHLEY	6
Goodell, Charles - 2/27/85	SYERS	11
Grand Rapids Acquaintances	PFC Box E41	75
Greener, William I. - 1/23/90	ROZELL	6
Greenspan, Alan - 1/28/78	REICHLEY	9
Gresham, Vic - 10/28/80	REICHLEY	4
Griffin, Robert - Four Interviews, 1964-65	PEABODY	28
Harlow, Bryce - 11/3/77	REICHLEY	9
Harlow, Bryce - 7/27/85	SYERS	11
Harper, Ed - 10/26/77	REICHLEY	4
Hartmann, Robert - 12/9/76	HYDE-WAYNE	17
Hartmann, Robert - 12/8/77	REICHLEY	11
Hartmann, Robert - 5/3/85	SYERS	9
Hartmann, Robert - 12/15/89	ROZELL	15
Hartmann, Robert - 4/5/91	HADDIX	13
Heinz, John - 9/22/77	REICHLEY	3
Hess, Stephen - 10/21/77	REICHLEY	7
Hills, Carla - 5/19/78	REICHLEY	9
Hills, Roderick - 11/17/78	REICHLEY	5
Hope, Judith - 12/8/76	HYDE-WAYNE	24
Huebner, Lee - 12/9/77	REICHLEY	4
Humphreys, George - 12/2/76	HYDE-WAYNE	18
Hyde, Henry - 9/22/77	REICHLEY	4
Jenckes, Joe - 8/8/85	SYERS	10
Jones, Jerry - 12/17/76	HYDE-WAYNE	26
Jones, Sidney - 11/29/77	REICHLEY	4
Judd, Dorothy - 1/25/80	HYDE-WAYNE	17
Kemp, Jack - 10/4/77	REICHLEY	4
Kendall, William - 1/22/65	PEABODY	8
Kendall, William - 11/22/77	REICHLEY	4
Kendall, William - 9/30/75	HYDE-WAYNE	18
Kendall, William - 6/26/85	SYERS	10
Kilberg, Bobbie - 12/28/77	REICHLEY	5
King, Gwendolyn - 5/24/88	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	45
Kleindienst, Richard - 8/30/77	REICHLEY	8
Klein, Herb - 1/16/78	REICHLEY	7
Korologos, Tom - 8/31/77	REICHLEY	5
Korologos, Tom - 7/3/85	SYERS	8
Kurzman, Steven - 9/28/77	REICHLEY	4
Laird, Melvin - Four Interviews, 1965	PEABODY	6
Laird, Melvin - 3/31/78	REICHLEY	9
Laird, Melvin - 6/6/85	SYERS	8
Laird, Melvin - 1979 (re service in Congress)	LAIRD	60
Laird, Melvin - 1983 (re All Volunteer Force)	LAIRD	15
Laird, Melvin - 1986 (re Secretary of Defense)	LAIRD	115
Lake, Anthony - 10/28/77	REICHLEY	5
Lay, Chris - 9/19/77	REICHLEY	4
Lehmann, Wolfgang - 1982	LEHMANN	60
Lehmann, Wolfgang - 1989	LEHMANN	58
Leonard, Jerris - 10/31/77	REICHLEY	7
Leppert, Charles - 7/10/85	SYERS	11
Levi, Edward - 1/24/78	REICHLEY	4
Levi, Edward - 1989 (notes on converstion)	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	4
Lewis, Drew - 12/4/78	REICHLEY	5
Lindsay, John - 1/14/65	PEABODY	7
Lipscomb, Glenard - 1/19/65	PEABODY	9
Lissy, David - 11/30/76	HYDE-WAYNE	32
Loeffler, Tom - 12/17/84	SYERS	6
Loen, Vernon - 11/18/76	HYDE-WAYNE	29
Lord, Winston - 10/19/77	REICHLEY	7
Lynn, James - 9/8/77	REICHLEY	8
MacGregor, Clark - 9/2/77	REICHLEY	4
MacLaury, Bruce - 12/20/77	REICHLEY	4
Malek, Fred - 9/13/77	REICHLEY	8
Marsh, John - 9/2/77	REICHLEY	6
Martin, Jim - 4/9/65	PEABODY	22
Mathias, Charles - 1/12/65	PEABODY	3
Mathias, Charles - 9/22/77	REICHLEY	3
May, Catherine - 2/1/65	PEABODY	5
Mayaguez action (Marines)	U.S. MARINE CORPS	28 CDs
Mayaguez Crew - 5/75	SEA-LAND	325
McClaughry, John - 12/22/80	REICHLEY	4
McCracken, Paul - 10/5/78	REICHLEY	9
McDade, Joe - 10/13/77	REICHLEY	4
Mikva, Abner - 11/3/77	REICHLEY	4
Mitchell, John - 9/18/69	REICHLEY	7
Mize, Chester - 1/13/65	PEABODY	6
Montgomery, Sonny - 11/9/77	REICHLEY	4
Moore, W. Allen - 11/30/76	HYDE-WAYNE	54
Moore, W. Allen - 12/7/76	HYDE-WAYNE	17
Morras, M.C. - 10/28/80	REICHLEY	3
Morrow, Hugh - 10/18/77	REICHLEY	2
Morse, Brad - 1/26/65	PEABODY	7
Morton, Rogers - 1/27/65	PEABODY	4
Moynihan, Daniel P. - 7/13/78	REICHLEY	6
Myer, Paul - 12/7/76	HYDE-WAYNE	32
Nathan, Richard - 8/4/77	REICHLEY	7
Nessen, Ron - Interview Exceprts, 7/5/90	ROZELL	4
Nixon, Richard - 9/28/67	REICHLEY	11
Nofziger, Lyn - 1/5/78	REICHLEY	4
O'Donnell, Pat - 9/27/85	SYERS	10
O'Neill, Paul - 10/18/77	REICHLEY	3
Ogilvie, Donald - 5/28/75	HYDE-WAYNE	17
Ogilvie, Richard - 1/23/78	REICHLEY	3
Panetta, Leon - 9/19/77	REICHLEY	9
Parsons, Richard - 5/7/76	HYDE/WAYNE	23
Patterson, Bradley - 9/10/74	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	52
Patterson, Bradley - 11/11/77	REICHLEY	4
Penner, Rudy - 1/11/78	REICHLEY	7
Peterson, Peter - 3/23/78	REICHLEY	5
Pitts, William - 4/6/65	PEABODY	9
Poff, Richard - 1/26/65	PEABODY	12
Porter, Roger B. - 5/13/85	SYERS	6
Preyer, Richardson - 10/21/77	REICHLEY	5
Price, John - 3/24/78	REICHLEY	4
Price, Ray - 3/2/78	REICHLEY	5
Quern, Arthur - 4/30/76	HYDE-WAYNE	19
Quern, Arthur - 12/7/76	HYDE-WAYNE	26
Quie, Albert - 3 Interviews, 1964-66	PEABODY	33
Railsback, Thomas - 9/15/77	REICHLEY	4
Raoul-Duval, Michael - post-11/2/76	HYDE-WAYNE	46
Raoul-Duval, Michael - 2/9/77	HYDE-WAYNE	42
Reagan, Ronald - 1/4/78	REICHLEY	7
Rice, Don - 11/13/75	U.S. NASA	8
Richardson, Elliot - 1/9/78	REICHLEY	10
Robb, Rick - 10/17/80 and 10/23/80	REICHLEY	3
Roberts, John W. "Bill" - 11/29/90	ROZELL	12
Robson, John - 7/80	ROBSON	130
Rockefeller, Nelson - Interview by Trevor Armbrister, 10/21/77	CANNON PAPERS	55
Rockefeller, Nelson - Interview by Robert Hartmann, 12/2/77	CANNON PAPERS	75
Rockefeller, Nelson - Interview by Michael Turner, 12/22/77	CANNON PAPERS	50
Rockefeller, Nelson - Interview by Robert Hartmann, 2/22/78	CANNON PAPERS	15
Rockefeller, Nelson - 3/24/78	REICHLEY	8
Rowland, Patrick - 6/27/85	SYERS	8
Rumsfeld, Donald - 3 Interviews, 1964-66	PEABODY	16
Rumsfeld, Donald - 1/25/78	REICHLEY	10
Rustand, Warren - 1/9/91	HADDIX	16
Ryan, Matt - 10/23/80	REICHLEY	3
Saylor, John - 3/?/65	PEABODY	3
Schleede, Glenn - 5/1/76	HYDE-WAYNE	30
Schmults, Edward - 11/16/77	REICHLEY	4
Schroeder, Patricia - 9/22/77	REICHLEY	3
Schwartz, Tony - 6/1/76	DEVLIN	26
Schweiker, Richard - 1/17/78	REICHLEY	5
Schweiker, Richard - 12/19/80	REICHLEY	3
Scott, Hugh - 12/6/77	REICHLEY	7
Scott, Hugh - 6/3/85	SYERS	8
Scowcroft, Brent - 12/1/77	REICHLEY	9
Scranton, William - 6/30/78	REICHLEY	4
Sears, John - 8/26/77	REICHLEY	7
Sears, John - 1/12/81	REICHLEY	6
Seidman, L. William - 11/16/77	REICHLEY	6
Seidman, L. William - 6/12/85	SYERS	8
Shultz, George - 1/4/78	REICHLEY	9
Shepard, Geoffrey - 9/11/74	COMPOSITE ORAL HISTORIES	29
Shuster, Bud - 10/6/77	REICHLEY	5
Simon, Paul - 9/19/77	REICHLEY	2
Simon, William - Interviews for Memoir, 1976	SIMON	950
Simon, William -10/18/77	REICHLEY	6
Sonnenfeldt, Helmut - 10/12/77	REICHLEY	10
Sontag, Fred - 1/14/65	PEABODY	2
Speakes, Larry - 11/29/90	ROZELL	12
Spees, Richard - 1/17/81	REICHLEY	4
Spence, Clark - 10/24/80	REICHLEY	3
Steiger, William - 11/22/77	REICHLEY	4
Stein, Herb - 11/29/77	REICHLEY	8
Stevenson, Adlai - 9/20/77	REICHLEY	6
Stever, H. Guyford - 2/7/74	U.S. NASA	10
Stever, H. Guyford - 2/87	STEVER	130
Stever, H. Guyford - Interview for Carnegie Mellon History, 1987	STEVER	75
Stokes, Louis - 9/15/77	REICHLEY	4
Taft, Will - 12/9/80	REICHLEY	4
Teeter, Robert - 5/5/97	TEETER	47
terHorst, Jerald F. - 6/27/90	ROZELL	17
Thompson, Frank - 10/20/77	REICHLEY	4
Thompson, James - 1/25/78	REICHLEY	5
Thompson, Louis - 11/20/90	ROZELL	22
Timmons, William - 11/29/77	REICHLEY	11
Treen, David - 10/5/77	REICHLEY	5
Veneman, Jack - 9/12/77	REICHLEY	7
Ver Meulen, Willard B. - 1/26/80	GRAND RAPIDS	5
Volcker, Paul - 3/24/78	REICHLEY	5
Waggoner, Joe - 2/8/78	REICHLEY	6
Wagner, Bruce - 6/4/76	DEVLIN	47
Waldmann, Ray - 1/11/78	REICHLEY	3
Waldron, Agnes - 9/23/77	REICHLEY	3
Walker, Charls - 10/4/77	REICHLEY	8
Walker, Charls - 12/15/80	REICHLEY	7
Wanniski, Jude - 7/15/80 and 10/17/78	REICHLEY	8
Warren, Gerald - 10/24/74	COMPOSITE	22
Warren, Gerald - 1/6/78	REICHLEY	5
Warren, Gerald - 3/15/90	ROZELL	10
Watts, William - 9/21/77	REICHLEY	6
Weathers, Niel - 1/26/80	GRAND RAPIDS	16
Weber, Fred - 10/17/77	REICHLEY	6
Weinberger, Caspar - 8/23/77	U.S. NASA	19
Weinberger, Caspar - 1/4/78	REICHLEY	8
Whitaker, John - 2/15/78	REICHLEY	7
White, Margita - 6/7/90	ROZELL	7
Wiggins, Charles - 12/6/77	REICHLEY	5
Wilson, Bob - 2 Interviews, 1965-66	PEABODY	26
Wilson, Henry H. - 2/27/67	PEABODY	1
Wirthlin, Richard - 12/9/80	REICHLEY	8
Ziegler, Ron - 11/15/77	REICHLEY	5