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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-06
In this interview Komer discusses U.S. aid to India and Pakistan and some problems involved with it, including the question of long-term U.S. aid and a shift in focus from Pakistan to India; problems with the Agency for International Development; oil and U.S. policy; U.S. involvement in the Congo; Komer’s meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] and how Komer briefed him; the relations among JFK, Dean Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adlai E. Stevenson, and McGeorge Bundy; JFK’s interest in India and Pakistan and his attempt at a mediation between the two on Kashmir; and JFK and Algeria and Morocco, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-24-A
ST14, KN23
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24232
Arrival ceremony in honor of President of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan, at Quonset Point Naval Air Station, North Kingstown, Rhode Island. President John F. Kennedy (back to camera, holding hat) and President Ayub Khan greet military personnel; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy stands right of President Kennedy. Also pictured: U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot.