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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-096-003
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as the Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include a letter from John Herschel and Clara Sproat Glenn and congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including French President General Charles de Gaulle, King Hassan II of Morocco, and President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-096-002
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as the Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia, President Chiang-Kai-shek of the Republic of China, and Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt and the United Arab Republic. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-096-001
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as the Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including King Baudouin I of Belgium, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Adolfo Lopez Mateos, President of Mexico. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-095-024
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as the Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, President Eamonn de Valera of Ireland, and Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Chief of the Spanish State. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-095-023
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include a press release of President Kennedy conferring the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal on Dr. Robert R. Gilruth and Colonel Glenn, a photograph of the President inspecting the interior of the Friendship 7 capsule with Colonel Glenn at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including Queen Elizabeth II of England, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. This folder contains some foreign language material.