Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-015
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Chester Bowles ("Chet"), the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, and Ambassador at Large. Materials mainly represent Bowles' views and advice on foreign affairs. Topics include foreign aid, nuclear testing, and United States foreign policy in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Of note is a report by Bowles on foreign aid titled "Proposal for a New Operational Framework for Foreign Economic Assistance"; a letter to President Kennedy in which Bowles expresses concern over perceived inaction with regard to his recommendations for foreign policy in Africa, Asia and Latin America; a memorandum summarizing major foreign policy recommendation made by Bowles in 1962; and a memorandum summarizing a conversation between Bowles and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin.