FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 22, 2013
CONTACT: Joe Calvaruso
616-254-0397
[email protected]
GERALD R. FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION RELEASES
EXTENSIVE ORAL HISTORIES OF FORD ADMINISTRATION, FAMILY,
AND FRIENDS IN CONJUNCTION WITH
PRESIDENT FORD’S CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation has released over 160 oral histories compiled
from recent interviews of President Ford’s administration, family, and friends. The oral histories
are available for researchers and the public to access and download from the Foundation’s website:
www.geraldrfordfoundation.org/centennial/oralhistory/ .
Gleaves Whitney, Director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential
Studies, praised the Foundation’s oral history project.
"The historical record of President Gerald R. Ford has been richly augmented by the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Foundation’s compilation of Richard Norton Smith's interviews with members of
the Ford Administration and others closely associated with the former president. Grand Valley
State University is pleased that the oral histories are being made available to historians, students,
and the public so that we can better understand the extraordinary life and legacy of President
Gerald R. Ford.”
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation fosters increased awareness of the life, career,
values and legacy of America’s 38th President. It does so through activities designed to promote
the high ideals of integrity, honesty, and candor that defined President Ford’s extraordinary career
of public service. The Foundation promotes the ideals, values, commitment to public service and
historical legacy of President Gerald R. Ford and further promotes greater civic engagement and
recognition of integrity wherever it exists in the public arena. It supports permanent and changing
exhibits designed to promote historical literacy; conferences; educational outreach and other
programs, both scholarly and popular, including at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and
Museum.
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