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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-053-003
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include reports on the legislative efforts of individual government agencies and memoranda from Montana Senator Mike Mansfield, Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer Feldman, Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, and Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien. Topics include education, mass transit, and mental health, but the majority of materials concerns pending civil rights legislation. The folder was originally titled "6/63 Civil rights."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-052-006
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include reports on the legislative efforts of individual government agencies, a copy of H.R. 3139, an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and memoranda from Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer Feldman (with handwritten notations by the President), Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, and Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien concerning individual congressmen and pieces of legislation. The folder was originally titled "1/63 Wool, Education, Civil rights, Mansfield."
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-049-006
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include "Legislative Notes" and other data prepared by Legislative Research; reports on legislative progress from Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien; and a letter from Illinois Congressman Charles Melvin Price concerning the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program. Also included are materials regarding civil rights legislation and foreign aid, including a proposed amendment to the Foreign Aid Act. This folder was originally titled "March 1961:18-30, Aircraft nuclear propulsion, sugar, feed grains, minimum wage, civil rights, area redevelopment, social security."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-116-003
Sound recording of three meeting. First is a meeting held on October 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Presidential Advisor on Foreign Affairs Dean Acheson. For most of the meeting, Acheson discusses the political climate in Europe, especially in Germany. President Kennedy speaks mainly near the end of the meeting.Next are two brief meetings on civil rights held on October 24, 1963. These consecutive meetings concern the timing of civil rights legislation and discussions with leaders in the House of Representatives on the bill and amendments. Participants include President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations Lawrence F. O’Brien, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives John McCormack (Massachusetts), Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Representative Emanuel Celler (New York), Representative William McCulloch (Ohio), Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Representative Charles Halleck (Indiana), and Representative Leslie Arends (Illinois). Please note that these meetings were opened in 1984 as part of the Kennedy Library’s Civil Rights tape opening. The recording of the second meeting ends abruptly and continues on Tape 117/A53.
This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 116/A52, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 116/A52 in its entirety or the end of this recording on Tape 117/A53.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-090-003
Sound recording of a meeting held on June 1, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze; Commissioner of Education at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Francis Keppel; General Counsel at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Alanson W. Willcox; Assistant Secretary (for Legislation) at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen; Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare James Quigley; Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice Burke Marshall; Civil Rights and Political Advisor and Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Louis Martin; Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Special Assistant to the President Lawrence F. O’Brien; Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen; and Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White. This meeting concerns civil rights issues, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Equal Accommodations Bill, the public school education bill, the timing of sending these bills to Congress, the legal steps of the Attorney General, and what information to include in the President’s message to the country. After the meeting ends, the rest of the recording is blank. This meeting was previously opened in the "Civil Rights 1963" release in the 1980s. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 90, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 90 in its entirety.