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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BBH-01
In this interview Hickenlooper discusses various meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] on foreign relations; Soviet and American nuclear testing; the nuclear test ban treaty; the Bay of Pigs invasion; Laos and Vietnam; the Punta del Este Conference in 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Hickenlooper's 1962 reelection campaign; traveling with JFK to Costa Rica; the 1961 Berlin crisis; JFK's congressional relations; and social occasions at the Kennedy White House, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, among other issues.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lawrence F. O'Brien
JFKWHSFLOB-017-025
Textual folder
Lawrence F. O'Brien Personal Papers
LOBPP-208-009
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6965-C
Senator Everett. M. Dirksen (Illinois) speaks to reporters regarding the bi-partisan congressional leadership breakfast. Washington Correspondent for the Guy Gannett Publishing Company of Maine, May Craig, stands third from left. North entrance of the West Wing, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-17714
Congressional Coffee Hour (Senate). L-R: Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper (Iowa); President John F. Kennedy; Senator Philip A. Hart (Michigan); Senator Clifford P. Case (New Jersey). Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C.