LibGuides: G12: The Cold War and the Americas: USFP: Ford

Foreign Policy

Gerald Ford: Foreign Affairs
Given Ford's ultimate decision to retain Kissinger, it came as little surprise that the new administration continued the foreign policies pursued by Nixon and Kissinger during the previous five years
Interview with Gerald Ford
from the National Security Archives
Ford Administration and the Security Policy in SE Asia
This article enhances our understanding of the Ford administration's foreign policy by examining how it sought to react to a changed situation in the Asia-Pacific after the fall of Saigon in May 1975.
SALT Talks
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Foreign Relations
overview from the Ford presidential library
Helsinki Accords
Documents from the presidential library
Helsinki, 1975
Th Helsinki Act addressed a range of prominent global issues and in so doing had a far-reaching effect on the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet relations.
Ford Addresses Congress on the Fall of Saigon
Ford's Foreign Policy: Helsinki Accords
Overview with link to documents.

Domestic Issues

Gerald Ford's Domestic Policy
As Ford tried to heal the nation through his instincts of candor and decency, at heart, he was something of a policy wonk, relishing the nitty‐gritty of economic and budgetary planning and the details of governmental tinkering.

The Nixon Pardon
On Sunday, September 8, 1974, President Ford addressed the nation from the Oval Office to announce his decision to “grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon

Economy

Graphic History

Kissinger, Ford and Brezhnev, 1974

Vladivostok summit on arms control

Domino Theory, 1975

"Well, let's go at it", 1974

In his address to the nation, Mr. Ford referred to the Watergate scandal as “our long national nightmare” and noted that “Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.”

G12: The Cold War and the Americas: USFP: Ford