Presidential Correspondence with Foreign Leaders (Ford Administration). 1974 - 1977. Presidential Correspondence with Foreign Leaders

Ahmed Sékou Touré was the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. A devout Muslim from the Mandinka ethnic group, Sékou Touré was the great-grandson of the powerful Mandinka Muslim cleric Samori Ture who established an independent Islamic rule in part of West Africa. In 1960, he declared his Democratic Party of Guinea (Parti démocratique de Guinée, PDG) the ...

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006

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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth, and his mother took him to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to live with her parents. On February 1, 1916, approximately two years after her divorce was final, Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald ...

Sadat, Anwar, 1918-1981

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Chiang, Ching-kuo, 1910-1988

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President of Taiwan, 1978-1988. From the description of Chiang Ching-kuo diaries, 1937-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122639768 ...

Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-1995

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Yitzhak Rabin (b. 1922, Jerusalem-d. Nov. 4, 1995, Tel Aviv), Israeli prime minister, began his military career in 1940 when he joined the "Palmach", the elite unit of the Haganah. During the War of Independence (1948-1949), he commanded the Harel Brigade, deployed on the Jerusalem front. For the next 20 years, he served with the IDF as O.C. Northern Command (1956-1959); as Chief of Operations and Deputy Chief of Staff (1959-1964) and as Chief of Staff (1964-1968), commanding the IDF during the ...

Trudeau, Pierre Elliott

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Biographical/Historical Note Prime minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984. From the guide to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau speeches, 1968-1984, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Tolbert, William R., 1913-1980

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Moro, Aldo, 1916-1978

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Schmidt, Helmut, 1918 December 23-

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Helmut Schmidt (b. Dec. 23, 1918), German chancellor, May 1974 to Oct. 1982. From the description of Schmidt, Helmut, 1918 Dec. 23- (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582374 ...

Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry, 1926-

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President of France, 1974-1981. From the description of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing speeches and writings, 1974-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871086 Biographical/Historical Note President of France, 1974-1981. From the guide to the Valéry Giscard d'Estaing speeches and writings, 1974-1981, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976

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Miki, Takeo, 1907-1988

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Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali

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Park, Chung-Hee 1917-1979

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Wilson, Harold, Sir, 1916-

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On 8th July 1981, following government cuts to university funding, a House of Commons debate was held on higher education. Sir Harold Wilson (the then Chancellor of the University of Bradford) delivered a speech critical of the cuts, referring to the reduction in overseas student numbers, the loss of foreign placements for sandwich courses, and the anticipated closure of the University's Clinical Oncology Unit. From the guide to the The Harold Wilson University Finance Speech, 1981, ...

Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 1906-1975

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Nguyễn, Văn Thiệu, 1923-2001

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Nguyen Van Thieu (b. Apr. 5, 1923, Ninh Thuan province-d. Sept. 29, 2001, Newton, Mass.), was president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He had served as ceremonial head of state from 1965 to 1967. From the description of Nguyen, Van Thieu, 1923-2001 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10569129 ...

Callaghan, James, 1912-2005

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Khalid, King of Saudi Arabia, 1913-1982

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1919-1980

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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 26 October 1919, Tehran, Persia–d. 27 July 1980, Cairo, Egypt) was the last Shah of Iran from Sept. 1941 until Feb. 11, 1979 (the Iranian Revolution). He replaced his father as Shah after British and Soviet forces forced his father to abdicate during World War II. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi made changes to modernize Iran during the White Revolution in the 1960s. However, he lost support from clergy and working class due to his modernization, relations with Israel, and corr...