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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Central Subject Files
JFKWHCSF-0374-011
Materials in this folder include telegrams, petitions, memoranda, a newspaper article, and correspondence between President John F. Kennedy, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, various members of the White House staff, and individual citizens concerning incidents of voter intimidation, the pending 23rd Amendment to the Constitution permitting citizens of Washington, D.C. to vote in federal elections, and the pending 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on the payment of a poll tax, and incidents of racially motivated violence, with specific emphasis on violence against voter registration workers in Mississippi.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-052-017
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include reports on the legislative efforts of individual government agencies and memoranda from Special Assistant Council to the President Lee C. White, Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, and Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien concerning individual congressmen and pieces of legislation. Topics include tax reform, public works, international relations, youth employment, and the federal budget. The folder was originally titled "3/63 Public works, McNamara."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-012
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Materials concern Pacific halibut regulation amendments for 1963. Of note is a document titled "Regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission Adopted Pursuant to the Pacific Halibut Fishery Convention Between the United States of America and Canada, Signed March 2, 1953." Also included in this folder is a copy of "Pacific Halibut Fishery Regulations," by the International Pacific Halibut Commission showing the amendments for 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-011
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Topics include background information for meetings between President Kennedy and chairmen of various congressional committees, a proposal for a Puerto Rican plebiscite regarding their country's status, notes for publisher's luncheons in various states, the space program, and the Commission on Civil Rights.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-010
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Lee C. White, Assistant Special Counsel to the President. Topics include legislation on saline water conversion and a communications satellite, the Junius Scales case, the Indiana Dunes, and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project. Of note is a picture of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, taken from space by the Tiros IV satellite.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-049-004
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include "Legislative Notes" prepared by Legislative Research and several memoranda from Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White to Lawrence O'Brien, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel, concerning meetings with individual Congressmen. Of note are materials relating to small business legislation. This folder was originally titled "February 1961: 21-29 Small business, Hollifield, Buckley, Powell, Patman, Byrd, Sparkman, Russell."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-090-003
Sound recording of a meeting held on June 1, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze; Commissioner of Education at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Francis Keppel; General Counsel at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Alanson W. Willcox; Assistant Secretary (for Legislation) at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen; Assistant Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare James Quigley; Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice Burke Marshall; Civil Rights and Political Advisor and Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Louis Martin; Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Special Assistant to the President Lawrence F. O’Brien; Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen; and Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White. This meeting concerns civil rights issues, including the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Equal Accommodations Bill, the public school education bill, the timing of sending these bills to Congress, the legal steps of the Attorney General, and what information to include in the President’s message to the country. After the meeting ends, the rest of the recording is blank. This meeting was previously opened in the "Civil Rights 1963" release in the 1980s. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 90, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 90 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-088-004
Sound recording of a meeting held on May 20, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Assistant Attorney General from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall, Assistant Special Counsel to the President Lee C. White, and Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen. The discussion provides an overview of civil rights legislative proposals (accommodations, schools, federal jobs) and the political fights they will cause in Congress and with the states. An overview of recent civil rights demonstrations is also provided. 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 and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 88 in its entirety.