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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0374-011
Materials in this folder include telegrams, petitions, memoranda, a newspaper article, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning incidents of voter intimidation, the pending 23rd Amendment to the Constitution permitting citizens of Washington, D.C. to vote in federal elections, and the pending 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on the payment of a poll tax, and incidents of racially motivated violence, with specific emphasis on violence against voter registration workers in Mississippi.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-052-017
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 Special Assistant Council to the President Lee C. White, 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. Topics include tax reform, public works, international relations, youth employment, and the federal budget. The folder was originally titled "3/63 Public works, McNamara."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-012
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Materials concern Pacific halibut regulation amendments for 1963. Of note is a document titled "Regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission Adopted Pursuant to the Pacific Halibut Fishery Convention Between the United States of America and Canada, Signed March 2, 1953." Also included in this folder is a copy of "Pacific Halibut Fishery Regulations," by the International Pacific Halibut Commission showing the amendments for 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-011
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Topics include background information for meetings between President Kennedy and chairmen of various congressional committees, a proposal for a Puerto Rican plebiscite regarding their country's status, notes for publisher's luncheons in various states, the space program, and the Commission on Civil Rights.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-010
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Topics include legislation on saline water conversion and a communications satellite, the Junius Scales case, the Indiana Dunes, and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project. Of note is a picture of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, taken from space by the Tiros IV satellite.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-049-004
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" prepared by Legislative Research and several memoranda from Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White to Lawrence O'Brien, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel, concerning meetings with individual Congressmen. Of note are materials relating to small business legislation. This folder was originally titled "February 1961: 21-29 Small business, Hollifield, Buckley, Powell, Patman, Byrd, Sparkman, Russell."