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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
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-C17733
Dinner in honor of Habib Bourguiba, Sr., President of Tunisia. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson sit on South Portico Balcony, facing the South Lawn; Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon, stands behind. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-106-10-61
Dinner in honor of Habib Bourguiba, Sr., President of Tunisia. L-R: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon. South Portico Balcony, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8255-3N
Members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries attend graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy (holding folded flag), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts) stand in foreground; the eternal flame is in center (foreground). Also pictured: President Lyndon B. Johnson; Prime Minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda; Vice President of Liberia, William R. Tolbert, Jr.; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera; Minister of External Affairs of Ireland, Frank Aiken; Prince Georg Valdemar of Denmark; President of the Senate of Australia, Sir Alister McMullin; Ambassador of Ecuador, Dr. José Antonio Correa Escobar; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Joseph Luns; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands; President of Congress of Nicaragua, Luis Somoza Debayle; President of the Corporate Chamber of Portugal, Clotário Luís Supico Pinto; Prince Jean of Luxembourg; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Japan, Ryuji Takeuchi; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Ambassador of Pakistan, Ghulam Ahmed; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Virginia Rusk; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon; Representative T. Ashton Thompson (Louisiana); U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, John C. Metzler; White House Secret Service agents, Paul Rundle and Rufus Youngblood. Honor guard pallbearers stand at attention, including: Lance Corporal Jerry J. Diamond (USMC), Yeoman George A. Barnum (USCG), Lieutenant Samuel R. Bird (U.S. Army), Seaman Hubert Clark (USN), Sergeant James L. Felder (U.S. Army), Lance Corporal Timothy F. Cheek (USMC), Sergeant Richard E. Gaudreau (USAF), Seaman Larry B. Smith (USN), and Corporal Douglas A. Mayfield (U.S. Army). Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.