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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-08-19-A
KN07
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-04
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses American aid to Argentina; American, British, and French involvement in Africa; the 1962 executive order about segregation in federally-funded housing; appointing African-American judges; changes John F. Kennedy [JFK] was contemplating in the Alliance for Progress; the Dominican crisis; the wheat sale to the Soviet Union; the Bobby Baker case; preparing for JFK’s 1964 campaign; RFK’s return to work after JFK’s assassination and disagreements among the Cabinet members and under President Lyndon B. Johnson; changes in White House staff and the Democratic Party; RFK’s political plans for after 1964; and JFK’s opinions of his staff and appointees, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-01
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses beginning John F. Kennedy's [JFK] presidential Administration with no political obligations; carefully picking Cabinet members, specifically Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury; RFK’s decision on what role to play in JFK’s Administration; JFK’s unhappiness with Dean Rusk as Secretary of State; JFK’s advisers and other presidential appointments; Cabinet meetings; Department of Justice organization under RFK; the first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration; the role of the Vice President, according to RFK; JFK’s relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson and why JFK put Johnson on the ticket in 1960; what JFK was most concerned with as President; domestic programs versus foreign affairs in the Kennedy Administration; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s role during JFK’s presidency; the Bay of Pigs, the aftermath, and its effect on JFK; how JFK approached problems as President; dealing with Georgi Bolshakov; negotiating with the Soviet Union in Vienna, over Laos and Cuba, etc.; JFK’s relationship with foreign heads of state; State Department staff and U.S. Ambassadors; the military coup in Vietnam; the Berlin crisis of the summer of 1961 and the Berlin Wall; RFK’s 1961 trip to the Ivory Coast; and Soviet and American nuclear testing, among other issues.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18588
President John F. Kennedy speaks upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; and Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18587
President John F. Kennedy speaks upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; and Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18586
Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon watches as President John F. Kennedy prepares to speak upon the return of a delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: President John F. Kennedy; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18585
Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon speaks upon his return from the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: President John F. Kennedy; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18584
President John F. Kennedy speaks upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Michael Blumenthal; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18583
President John F. Kennedy speaks upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Michael Blumenthal; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18582
Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon speaks upon his return from the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este from the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. Those looking on include: President John F. Kennedy; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18581
President John F. Kennedy looks at a paper presented to him by Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon on the steps of the Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. President Kennedy greeted members of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este upon the delegation’s return to Washington. Those looking on include: Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Representative Armistead Selden of Alabama; Representative Chester Merrow of New Hampshire; and others.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18580
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este on the South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18579
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon upon the return of the delegation to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este on the South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C. Secretary of State Dean Rusk looks on from behind Secretary Dillon.