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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-08A-4
Sound recording of part of a telephone conversation held on March 2, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. They discuss reconnaissance flights over Cuba and statements attributed to Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona. They also discuss a press item about a proposed nuclear naval force and Soviet surveillance of naval vessels.The recording begins in mid-conversation and ends abruptly. The recording of this conversation continues on Dictation Belt 8B.1.
Transcript included. This sound recording was originally recorded on Dictation Belt 8A, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. To hear all of the recordings on the Dictation Belt, see Digital Identifier: JFKPOF-TPH-08A, Title: Telephone Recordings: Dictation Belt 8A.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-033-001
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and former United States Ambassador to Cuba Earl E.T. Smith. Letters from Smith's wife, Florence Smith, are also included. Materials mainly represent personal matters and domestic and foreign affairs, including letters sent to then Senator Kennedy. Items include a memorandum forwarded by Earl E.T. Smith on "A project to Counteract Communism Indoctrination of Cuban Children and to Educate them for Democracy," created by the Committee on Education for Democracy in Cuba.
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JFKPOF-090-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the embargo on Cuba, a compensatory financing proposal, the establishment of a narcotics working group, a meeting between the President and the Advisory Committee on Banking to the Comptroller of the Currency. Also included in this folder is a summary of a conversation regarding economic issues between the President and Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-034-021
This folder contains a press copy and a reading copy of President Kennedy's address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association at a Bureau of Advertising dinner held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In his speech President Kennedy addresses his discontent with the press's news coverage before, during, and after the Bay of Pigs incident, suggesting that there is a need for "far greater public information" and "far greater official secrecy."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-034-018
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. In his speech President Kennedy addresses the purpose of American intervention abroad, touching on the Bay of Pigs incident that occurred in Cuba four days prior. Materials in this folder include a press copy and a reading copy of the speech.
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JFKPOF-112-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Brazil. Materials concern Brazil’s financial and political situation, a pending visit by President of Brazil João Goulart, and Cuba. Of note are numerous telegrams from United States Ambassador to Brazil Lincoln Gordon to Secretary of State Dean Rusk concerning the political and financial issues in Brazil. Also included in this folder is correspondence between President Kennedy and President Goulart. This folder contains some foreign language materials.
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JFKPOF-118-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Guatemala. Materials pertain to the new Guatemalan Ambassador to the United States Carlos Garcia-Bauer and political situations in Guatemala and Haiti. Of note are letters to President Kennedy from President of Guatemala Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes regarding Cuba and Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro. Also included in this folder is a memorandum to the President from Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric titled, “Capability of the Guatemalan Government to Control Riots.” This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-113a-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Chile. Materials consist of correspondence between President Kennedy and President of Chile Jorge Alessandri. Of note is a letter from President Alessandri to President Kennedy regarding Cuba. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-111-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Argentina. Materials concern the Punta del Este conference, the Alliance for Progress, Cuba, aid to Argentina, and oil contracts in Argentina. Also included in this folder is correspondence between President Kennedy, President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi and President of Argentina José María Guido. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-111-012
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Argentina. Materials concern a scientific mission to Argentina to study Foot and Mouth disease and meat processing, a letter to President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi from President Kennedy regarding the Punta del Este conference, aid to Argentina, and the forced resignation of President Frondizi. Of note is correspondence between President Kennedy and the new President of Argentina José María Guido regarding the quarantine placed on Cuba. Also included in this folder are letters to President Kennedy from Don Emilio Donato del Carril resigning as Ambassador to the United States for Argentina and Dr. Roberto Alemann assuming the position vacated by del Carril. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-111-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Argentina. Materials concern a meeting between the President, the Argentine Minister of Economy Dr. Roberto Alemann, and the Argentine Ambassador Don Emilio Donato del Carril; and a request for aid to Argentina. Also included in this folder are a joint communiqué between President Kennedy and President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi, a letter to President Kennedy from President Frondizi regarding the Alliance for Progress, and a letter to President Frondizi from President Kennedy concerning Cuba. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-111-007
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Algeria. Materials concern the political situation in Algeria, relations between Algeria and Cuba, and a meeting between the President and Algerian Special Representative Mohammad Yazid.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-115-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials pertain to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Planning Subcommittee of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council.
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JFKPOF-115-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials consist of letters to President Kennedy from Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev regarding Soviet missiles and military equipment in Cuba. Also included in this folder is a memorandum to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy summarizing a meeting between Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-115-009
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials consist of notes and doodles from conference and Cabinet meetings regarding Cuba and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also included in this folder is a clipping from Parade magazine dated November 10, 1974 announcing the release of documents related to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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JFKPOF-115-008
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba, and consists of an issue of the journal Encounter containing an article by Theodore Draper titled, "Castro's Cuba."
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JFKPOF-115-007
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials consist of brief biographies of several Cubans, including Colonel Ramón Barquín Lopez, José Miro Cardona, and Felipe Pazos.
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JFKPOF-115-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba, and pertains to the Postgraduate Medical Education for Foreign Physicians program at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-115-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials concern the Cuban Brigade, travel to Cuba for subversive training, United States policy towards Cuba, and a comparative inventory of Cuban military equipment. Of note is a memorandum to the President from Special Assistant for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy titled, “Further Organization of the Government for Dealing with Cuba.” Also included in this folder is a report titled, “Report of the Interdepartmental Team on Counter Subversive Measures in Central America and Panama.”
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JFKPOF-115-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials pertain to the missile crisis in Cuba between the United States and the Soviet Union, Cuba’s economic situation, and a meeting between President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Also included in this folder are memoranda from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding a planned uprising of counterrevolutionary groups in Cuba.
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JFKPOF-115-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials concern Cuba, Prime Minister of Cuba Fidel Castro, and a proposal for a Cuban Freedom Brigade. Of note is a memorandum to the President from Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Richard N. Goodwin titled, “Conversation with Commandante Ernesto Guevara of Cuba.” Also included in this folder are memoranda to the President from Special Assistant Arthur M. Schlesinger regarding Cuba.
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JFKPOF-115-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials concern the release of American prisoners in Cuba, attacks on Cuba by Cuban exiles, and trading vessels with Free World and Polish flags on route to Cuba. Also included in this folder is an article from the Saturday Evening Post by Richard Armstrong titled, “How the Communists Plan to Win Latin America,” and numerous newspaper clippings regarding Cuba.
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JFKPOF-115-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials include a statement regarding an Alpha 66 raid, newswires reporting the participation of Arkansas National Guardsmen in the Bay of Pigs invasion, and a memorandum to the President from the Situation Room regarding a report of planes firing on a United States merchant ship near Cuba. Also included in this folder are thank you letters from the President to various persons for their contribution to the Bay of Pigs invasion and, “the Cuban crisis in October.”
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JFKPOF-114a-015
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials include a memorandum from the President to editors and radio and television news directors regarding sensitive national security information, correspondence between the President and Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, and a memorandum to the President’s personal secretary Evelyn Lincoln from Naval Aide to the President Tazewell T. Shepard titled, “Relocation of Dependents of Personnel Involved in the White House Emergency Plan.” Also included in this folder is the text for a pamphlet by a group named DADVER titled, “Experiences Adquired [sic] as a Result of the Communist Occupation of the Island of Cuba.” This folder contains some foreign language material.
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JFKPOF-114a-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials include a transcript of a conversation between the President and Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell L. Gilpatric; transcripts of three press conferences held by Press Secretary Pierre Salinger on October 23, 1962; and a proclamation titled, "Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba." Also included in this folder is a report by the United States Information Agency (USIA) Research and Reference Service titled, "Overseas Reactions to President Kennedy's Cuban Announcement."