Correspondence, memoranda, reports, interview transcripts, briefing papers, speeches and drafts, budget requests and testimony, telephone messages, notes, schedules, publications, and clippings, relating to Cannon's brief service as assistant to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and his dual role as assistant to President Ford for domestic affairs and executive director of the U.S. Domestic Council. Topics include Vice President Rockefeller's role in the Ford Administration; administration of the Domestic Council; status of Puerto Rico, especially President Ford's statehood proposal; Domestic Council input for 1977 state of the union address; later stages of fiscal year 1978 budget process; energy; health; nuclear policy statement of Oct. 1976; and regulatory reform. Other topics include: Aircraft noise control, nuclear policy review, creation of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, earthquake prediction, Energy Research and Development Administration, nuclear energy, oceanography, solar energy, outer space, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.