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:

     Administration series (18 ft.)          International Meetings series (1 ft.)

     Ann Whitman Diary series (4 ft.)        Legislative Meetings series (1 ft.)

     Cabinet series (7 ft.)                  Miscellaneous series (3 ft.)

     Campaign series (12 ft.)                NSC series (5 ft.)

     DDE Diaries series (22 ft.)             Name series (14 ft.)

     Draft series (1 ft.)                    Presidential Transition series (1 ft.)

     Dulles-Herter series (5 ft.)            Press Conference series (4 ft.)

     Gettysburg Farm series (2 ft.)          Speech series (15 ft.)

     International series (22 ft.)           Stag Dinners series (1 ft.)


Finding aids have been prepared for each series.  These vary considerably in size and detail.  Some
consist of unannotated 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.