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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-03
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1962 steel crisis; some major issues and accomplishments of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] presidency; choosing the U.S. Ambassador to Russia; foreign aid and treaties; the military coup in Peru; the space race during the Kennedy Administration; the 1962 congressional and gubernatorial campaigns; JFK’s dinner for the Nobel Prize winners; the Polaris submarines; problems with the New York Herald Tribune; New York politics; various pieces of federal legislation, 1961–1963; the Dominican Republic; Department of Justice investigations under RFK; the difficulties of being Attorney General; congressional issues in early 1963; the Vietnam War escalation in 1963; American support of the coup in Vietnam; Henry Cabot Lodge as the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; the prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion; American actions in Cuba; unemployment and civil rights; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin; JFK’s trips to the South and speeches on civil rights; the nuclear test ban treaty; and JFK’s trip to Ireland and Rome, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-01-A
AR24, KN20
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23005
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks upon signing the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana (in background); Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Representative Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Representative Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23004
President John F. Kennedy signs the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio (partially hidden); Representative Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Representative Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23003
President John F. Kennedy signs the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Representative Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C23002
President John F. Kennedy signs the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Representative Walter H. Judd (Minnesota); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7389-A
President John F. Kennedy signs the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio (mostly hidden); Representative Walter H. Judd of Minnesota (in back); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Representative Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey); Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); former representative from Maine, Frank M. Coffin. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7389-B
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks upon signing the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Senator Mike Mansfield (Montana); Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio (mostly hidden); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Representative Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey); Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7389-D
President John F. Kennedy signs the Foreign Assistance Act, S. 2996 Public Law 87-565. Looking on (L-R): Senator John J. Sparkman (Alabama); Representative Wayne L. Hays of Ohio (mostly hidden); Representative Walter H. Judd of Minnesota (behind Representative Hays); Senator Everett Dirksen (Illinois); Representative Robert B. Chiperfield (Illinois); Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (California); Representative Francis E. Walter (Pennsylvania); Representative Thomas E. Morgan (Pennsylvania); Representative Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey); Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher (New Jersey); Senator George D. Aiken (Vermont); Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); former representative from Maine, Frank M. Coffin. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.