--------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400000 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ C TITLE...................... PRESIDENT'S PAPERWORK LOG ...DESCRIPTION... The presidential paperwork logs (daily item by item listings of material crossing the President's desk) were compiled in the office of the Staff Secretary. That office coordinated the routine flow of paperwork to and from the President. Log entries were primarily made by staff assistant Dianna Gwin through early June 1975 and thereafter by Trudy Fry, head of the Special Files Unit. The logs appear to be complete for items which the President placed in his outbox. Many items which ended up in the outbox, however, were not logged in through the Staff Secretary's office before going to the President. These items were apparently handed to the President at meetings or during trips. Items which the Staff Secretary's office logged in included documents requiring the President's signature such as bills passed by Congress, executive orders, and personnel nominations and commissions. Also logged in before being routed to the President were memoranda regarding policy issues and personnel decisions which required presidential action as well as occasional memoranda provided for the President's information. Material listed as coming from the President's desk but not previously logged in included documents such as the daily news summaries, schedule proposals, background material for presidential meetings, briefing papers, reading copies of presidential speeches, memorandums recommending telephone calls, personal correspondence and handwritten notes of President Ford, and occasionally newspaper clippings and printed material. The daily listings usually note the time of day that documents were sent to the President's desk (if the Staff Secretary's office logged them in), the time returned to the outbox, and the subsequent disposition of the items. Material which could be filed at this point was sent to Central Files (CF), Central Files-Confidential File (CFC), the news summary file (NSF), the Presidential Handwriting File (PHW), or, prior to June 1975, to Trudy Fry (TF of TFI) for a filing decision. Paperwork which required further action was forwarded to the appropriate White House staff members: often Chief Executive Clerk Robert Linder (RL or BL); Director of Correspondence Robert Elliott (RE); Dorothy Downton (DD), personal secretary to the President; Susan Yowell (SY), Office of Staff Secretary; the Presidential Personnel Office (PD); Brent Scowcroft (BS), national security advisor; or Henry Kissinger (HAK). ...ABSTRACT... Daily item-by-item listings compiled by the Staff Secretary's Office of documents submitted to the President and those received from him in his outbox. They include both items officially logged in by the Staff Secretary's Office before being routed to the President and those items handed to the President by other persons during meetings or while he was away on trips. SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration LC SUBJECT TERM............ UNPOB, United States--Politics and government--1974-1977 BEGINNING DATE............. 1974 ENDING DATE................ 1977 VOLUME..................... 1.4 UNITS MEASUR............... linear feet ...RELATED MATERIAL... Additional material on White House mail, available as of March 1984 can be found in White Hose Central Files categories WH 4-1 Mail and WH 4-1-1 Mail Reports. The Ford Library also has a log, kept by the Special Files Unit, listing material which Special Files sent to Central Files during the period through June 11, 1975. ...ARRANGEMENT... Arranged in a single chronological sequence. PREFERRED CITATION......... President's Paperwork Logs, Gerald R. Ford Library CLASSIFICATION CODE........ P, Contains Some Classified Material LANG. CODE(S).............. eng LOCATION................... 2A-34-03-6 to 2A-34-03-7 DATE OF OPENING............ 03/1984 CREATORS NAME.............. Staff Secretary's Office CONFORMING NAME............ Staff Secretary's Office CONFORMING NAME INDICATOR.. A CREATORS RELN TO PRES...... Staff Secretary's Office CREATORS CURRENT POSN...... None ...BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE... The presidential paperwork logs (daily item by item listings of material crossing the President's desk) were compiled in the office of the Staff Secretary. That office coordinated the routine flow of paperwork to and from the President. Log entries were primarily made by staff assistant Dianna Gwin through early June 1975 and thereafter by Trudy Fry, head of the Special Files Unit. The logs appear to be complete for items which the President placed in his outbox. Many items which ended up in the outbox, however, were not logged in through the Staff Secretary's office before going to the President. These items were apparently handed to the President at meetings or during trips. DONORS NAME................ Ford Gerald R. DONORS RELN TO CREATOR..... President SOURCE OF LEGAL TITLE...... DM, Donated materials ...PROVENANCE... The Ford Library received these logs from the Staff Secretary's Office as part of Special Files. They were originally accessioned as 77-NLF-102. ...RESTRICTIONS... Open. Some items are temporarily restricted under terms of President Ford's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request. ...LITERARY RIGHT... Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. In addition, Mr. Ford has donated to the United States of America his copyright interest in any other of his writings that might be included in this collection. The copyright interest to materials written by other individuals or organizations is presumed to remain with them. WRITTEN PERMISSION......... N BOX........................ ******* PAPERWORK LOG --------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400001 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ S TITLE...................... President's Paperwork Log, {This is a Series Title} ...DESCRIPTION... Daily item-by-item listings compiled by the Staff Secretary's Office of documents submitted to the President and those received from him in his outbox. They include both items officially logged in by the Staff Secretary's Office before being routed to the President and those items handed to the President by other persons during meetings or while he was away on trips. SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration BEGINNING DATE............. 1974 ENDING DATE................ 1977 VOLUME..................... 1.4 UNITS MEASUR............... linear feet BASIS OF ARRANGEMENT....... C, Arranged chronologically. TYPE OF MATERIAL........... LOG, Log BOX........................ 1-4 PAPERWORK LOG --------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400004 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ F TITLE...................... President's Paperwork Logs, August 1974-July 1975 SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration BEGINNING DATE............. 08/1974 ENDING DATE................ 07/1975 BOX........................ 1 PAGE COUNT................. 800 PAPERWORK LOG --------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400005 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ F TITLE...................... President's Paperwork Logs, August 1975-March 1976 SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration BEGINNING DATE............. 08/1975 ENDING DATE................ 03/1976 BOX........................ 2 PAGE COUNT................. 800 PAPERWORK LOG --------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400006 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ F TITLE...................... President's Paperwork Logs, April-November 1976 SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration BEGINNING DATE............. 04/1976 ENDING DATE................ 11/1976 BOX........................ 3 PAGE COUNT................. 800 PAPERWORK LOG --------------- COL,SER,FLDR ID............ 017400007 ACCESSION.................. 70-NLF-237 RECORD CODE................ F TITLE...................... President's Paperwork Logs, December 1976-January 1977 SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR......... White House Administration BEGINNING DATE............. 12/1976 ENDING DATE................ 01/1977 BOX........................ 4 PAGE COUNT................. 200 PAPERWORK LOG ---------------