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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-116-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning France. Materials include correspondence between President Kennedy and President of France Charles de Gaulle, a meeting between President Kennedy and French Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and the resignation letter of United States Ambassador to France James M. Gavin. Of note is a statement with handwritten annotations by President Kennedy regarding the loan by France of Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa to the United States for exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. This folder contains some foreign language material.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-116-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning France. Materials pertain to United States Ambassador to France James M. Gavin, military relations between the United States and France, and a dinner at the White House for French Minister of State for Cultural Affairs Andre Malraux. Of note are replies by President of France Charles de Gaulle to messages by Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev. Also included in this folder is a transcript of an interview given by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville to CBS Television Network. This folder contains some foreign language material.