Appendix A
The Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ann Whitman File) constitute the richest historical collection in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. These are the President's office files, maintained during his administration by his personal secretary, Ann Whitman. The documents in this collection, totaling approximately 276,000 pages, include the President's correspondence and memoranda of conversations with heads of state, government officials, friends, and associates, as well as correspondence, memoranda, agenda, press releases, reports and other materials documenting the foreign and domestic policies of the Eisenhower Administration, the political activities of the President and his associates, and the President's personal affairs. Generally, the materials cover the years 1953-61 although there are scattered documents dated earlier.
At the close of the Eisenhower Administration, these materials were shipped to Gettysburg where former President Eisenhower used them in preparing his presidential memoirs, The White House Years. Following Eisenhower's death in 1969, the papers were transferred to the Eisenhower Library. Six series, constituting approximately 50 percent of the collection, were made available for research in May 1975; by March 1983 the twelve remaining series in the collection had been processed and opened to scholars, although portions are closed in keeping with donor restrictions or government regulations. The eighteen series in the Ann Whitman File, totaling 138 linear feet or approximately 276,000 pages, are as follows:
Finding aids have been prepared for each series. These vary considerably in size and detail. Some consist of un annotated container (folder title) lists; but the container lists for most of the series have extensive annotations following each folder title, indicating the subjects documented by the folder. Several of the finding aids also have scope and content notes which give an overview of the series. In the future, as more staff time becomes available for descriptive projects, several of the series finding aids will be refined, and in time a comprehensive finding aid for the entire collection will be prepared.
Finding aids to Dwight D. Eisenhower's Papers as President, like the finding aids to other Library collections, are available to researchers through interlibrary loan. In requesting finding aids to this collection please identify the desired finding aids by series title.
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Requests for finding aids or oral history interview transcripts through interlibrary loan should be directed to:
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Center
Attn: Interlibrary Loan Service
200 Southeast Fourth Street
Abilene, Kansas 67410
General facsimile number: 785-263-6718
E-mail address: eisenhower.library@nara.gov
