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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-088-006
Sound recording of a meeting held on May 21, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John Macy, and the following members of the President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing: Chief Benefits Director for the Veterans Administration’s Department of Veterans Benefits Cyril F. Brickfield, Philip Brownstein of Farmers Home Administration, Jack Conway of the Industrial Union Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), John Dervan of the Veteran’s Administration, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Administration William Driver, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veteran’s Administration John S. Gleason, Floyd Micree of Farmers Home Administration, Theodore Jones of the Supreme Life Insurance Co; Advisor Ferdinand Kramer, Joseph McMurray of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Cyril Magnin, Assistant Attorney General from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall, Associate Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Administration A.H. Monk, John Nolan from the Department of Justice, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense John J. Reed, Joseph Robertson from the Department of Agriculture, Advisor Roland Sawyer, William Seabron from the Department of Agriculture, Milton Semer from the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Simon Trevas from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Robert Weaver from the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Advisor Lewis Weinstein, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury Robert A. Wallace, and Special Assistant to the President David L. Lawrence. The meeting centers on Robert Kennedy and John Macy’s report to the President’s Commission on Equal Opportunity in Housing and to the President. The report concerned civil rights issues in Birmingham, Alabama, and federal involvement in the area. Mr. Macy also reports in detail the number of minority federal employees in the Alabama area, and there is discussion of how to increase this number. Please note that the recording of this meeting was previously made available in the Civil Rights 1963 release in the 1980s. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 88, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 88 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-113-005
Sound recording of a National Security Council (NSC) meeting held on September 30, 1963, concerning wheat sales to the Soviet Union. Discussed are Canadian-Soviet wheat negotiations and the possible sale of U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union and political pitfalls of such an action. The first eight minutes of the meeting are recorded and then the recording skips to the end of the meeting when President John F. Kennedy asks a smaller group of several staff members to stay to continue the discussion. The discussion with the smaller group continues on Tape 114/A49. The larger group includes President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry Fowler, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles Murphy, Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) General Marshall Carter, Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) General Curtis LeMay, Director of the Office of Emergency Planning Edward McDermott, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen, Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations Lawrence F. O’Brien, Presidential Advisor Kenneth O’Donnell, Department of Justice official Norbert Schlei, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Jack Behrman, Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, Chief United States Trade Negotiator Christian Herter, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 113, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 113 in its entirety or the remainder of this recording on Tape 114/A49.