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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-05
In this interview Komer discusses working with McGeorge Bundy; the “inner circle” of the Bundy State Department; Komer’s major contacts; the intelligence system; the power and responsibilities of the State Department; how Bundy screened what President John F. Kennedy [JFK] would see; relations with other key officials; Robert F. Kennedy and foreign policy issues; the Bundy State Department and White House staff; the “little State Department” in the White House; the bureaucratic role of the State Department; U.S. foreign policy in Asia; relations with key U.S. Ambassadors; handling Arab-Israeli issues; domestic pressures of American-Jewish community on JFK; Arabists in the Kennedy Administration; working with Myer Feldman on Israeli issues; the United States, Saudi Arabia, and oil; filling the power vacuum left by the British; dealing with Congress on foreign aid matters; counterinsurgency; and looking back at programs during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-LEM-03
In this interview Martin discusses helping fill government positions after John F. Kennedy [JFK] is elected President, 1960; the appointment of African American judges, including Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; providing African American candidates for different agency positions; civil rights crises during JFK’s Administration; Lee White as the White House advisor on civil rights; the civil rights bill introduced in 1963; religious groups in the civil rights movement; the issue of “white backlash”; and working for President JFK versus working for President Lyndon B. Johnson, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-12-C
AR24, ST12, KN19
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6334-C
Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the International Council for Christian Leadership in the Grand Ballroom, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Reverend Billy Graham addresses the audience from the lectern beneath a large cross. (L-R) At table: three unidentified men; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; unidentified man; President John F. Kennedy; co-chair of the breakfast Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas; Reverend Graham; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; ten unidentified men.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6334-B
Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the International Council for Christian Leadership in the Grand Ballroom, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy addresses the audience from the lectern beneath a large cross. (L-R) At table: two unidentified men; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai E. Stevenson; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; unidentified man; Reverend Billy Graham; co-chair of the prayer breakfast Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; ten unidentified men.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22747
President John F. Kennedy attends an evening parade at the Marine Barracks (“8th & I”) in Washington, D.C. Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup, walks at right. Standing at left (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Zola Shoup; Congressman Carl Vinson (Georgia); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Margaret Craig McNamara; Postmaster General, J. Edward Day; Mary Louise Day; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David Bell; Mary Bell.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7353-E
President John F. Kennedy attends an evening parade at the Marine Barracks (“8th & I”) in Washington, D.C. Seated in front row (L-R): Senator Richard B. Russell (Georgia); President Kennedy; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Zola Shoup; Congressman Carl Vinson (Georgia); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Margaret Craig McNamara (wife of Secretary McNamara).