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The original documents are located in Box 1, folder "9/5/74 - Manuscript Society" of
the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 1 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MRS. FORD:
Event:
Manuscript Society
Date/Time:
Thursday, September 5, 1974
2:15 p.m.
Place:
Executive Office Building Briefing Room
Number of
Attendees:
240 persons
Schedule of
Events:
2:15 p.m.
Lucy Winchester will escort you to the Executive
Office Building Briefing Room. The members of
the Manuscript Society will be seated in the room
and the Presidential descendants who will be the
speakers will be seated on the stage.
As you enter the room you will proceed to the
microphone and make brief welcoming remarks.
(Mr. Conger will send you suggested remarks and
background information.)
Following your remarks, photographs will be taken
as you greet each Presidential descendant.
(Note attachment)
2:30 p.m.
Lucy Winchester will escort you to the Family Quarters.
Their program will continue.
NOTES:
A copy of their program is attached.
Susan L. Dolibois
September 4, 1974
PRESIDENTIAL DESCENDANTS
* in the order in which they will be seated - left to right
John Augustine Washington
Great, great, great grand nephew of Washington's brother
Thomas B. Adams
Great, great, great grandson of John Adams
Great, great grandson of John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson Eppes
Great, great, great, great, great grandson of Thomas Jefferson
(The Treasurer of the American Academy of Arts and Science)
William Henry Harrison, Jr.
Great, great, great grandson of William Henry Harrison
(His father was a congressman from Ohio and served with
President Ford.)
John Scott Harrison
Great, great grandson of Benjamin Harrison
Webb Cook Hayes, III
Great grandson of Rutherford B. Hayes
(President Ford was his football coach at Yale.)
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves
Oldest grandchild of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
Daughter of Anna
Also, Steve Carson, Chairman, Local Arrangements Committee will
be seated on the stage.