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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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6280-1L
Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy along Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Motorcade with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; and Secretary of State Dean Rusk passes the reviewing stand. Members of the Kennedy family watch, including the President's brother Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy; sisters Jean Kennedy Smith, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver; and brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver.