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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-18B-3
Sound recording of a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. They discuss administering the State Department and making staff changes at the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They also discuss conferring with Carl Kaysen on a plan to assist Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique’s effort to gain independence.The beginning of the recording is garbled. Machine noise follows the conversation.
Transcript included. This sound recording was originally recorded on Dictation Belt 18B, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. To hear all of the recordings on the Dictation Belt, see Digital Identifier: JFKPOF-TPH-18B, Title: Telephone recordings: Dictation Belt 18B.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-18B
Dictation Belt 18B contains three sound recordings. The recording of the conversation in item 18B.1 begins on Dictation Belt 18A.7. This is a sound recording of part of a telephone conversation held on May 7, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Representative Edith S. Green of Oregon. They complete their discussion about legislative strategy on an education bill and dealing with the National Education Association of the United States. Item 18B.2 is a telephone conversation held on May 8, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. They discuss a strategy for the State Department to deal with an unidentified issue at the United Nations (U.N.). The recording begins in mid-conversation. Machine noise follows the conversation. Item 18B.3 is a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. They discuss administering the State Department and making staff changes at the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They also discuss conferring with Carl Kaysen on a plan to assist Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique’s effort to gain independence. The beginning of the recording is garbled. Machine noise follows the conversation.Transcript included. Each item listed above is also available individually as an excerpt derived from this full-length digitized recording. See Related Records for more information.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-039-024
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's remarks upon the presentation of The President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service on the South Lawn of the White House to J. Stanley Baughman, President of the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Dr. Donald E. Gregg, Chief of the Department of Cardiorespiratory Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, Medical Officer at the Food and Drug Administration; Mrs. Waldo K. Lyon, accepting for her husband, Head of the Submarine and Arctic Research Branch at the Navy Electronics Laboratory; and Llewellyn E. Thompson, Career Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Austria, and the former Soviet Union. The press copy also includes remarks by James E. Webb, Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board; John W. Macy, Executive Secretary of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board; Robert C. Weaver, Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency; Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of the Army; Anthony I. Celebrezze, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-038-031
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's prospective remarks to the Foreign Service Association. Materials in this folder include various memoranda of suggested remarks, in addition to the text of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson's 1961 address to the Foreign Service Association, a transcript of the President's remarks to State Department senior officers, and a suggested revision of the President's remarks to the National Security Council by Special Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury, and consists of a copy of a statement by Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, taxes, the International Development Association, and a proposal for the establishment of a Committee for Inter-American Development. Also included in this folder is a collection of letters and memoranda regarding the economy from Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris to the President and numerous memoranda from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090a-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury, and consists of a report by the National Security Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems on their activities July 1, 1962-December 31, 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury, and consists of a statement on the balance of payments by the American Bankers Association.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, interest rates, and French debt repayments. Also included in this folder is a copy of Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon's statement before the Joint Economic Committee; a memorandum to the President from Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara regarding the Department of Defense and the balance of payments; and a statement by the International Union, UAW (United Automobile Workers of America) titled, "National Economic Effect of Douglas Aircraft DC-9 Program."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-012
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials include memoranda for the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon titled, "Impact of Tax Reduction on the Budget," and, "Monetary Policy, the Balance of Payments, and Domestic Growth;" and the membership list as of June 1, 1963 of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963. Also included in this folder is a speech by Co-Chairman of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963 Stuart T. Saunders titled, "Taxes and Economic Growth."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include gold, the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963, and the balance of payments. Also included in this folder is a paper by G.L. Bach titled, "Integration of Monetary and Fiscal Policy," a summary of a meeting of the Treasury Consultants, and a report by the National Security Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials consist of a collection of memoranda and reports for the President regarding the balance of payments. Also included in this folder is a report to the President by the Cabinet Committee on the Balance of Payments and a paper by Executive Director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) Bill Dale titled, "The Role of the IMF in a Program to Finance the U.S. External Deficit."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-009
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the establishment of the Business and Finance Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963 and the Review Committee for Balance of Payment Statistics, steel, and the balance of payments. Also included in this folder is a report by Edward M. Bernstein titled, "The U.S. Balance of Payments in 1962," and remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon before the United States Chamber of Commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-008
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury, and consist of a report to the Long-Range International Payments Committee titled, "Feasibility of Monetary Arrangements to Finance the Balance of Payments Deficit."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-007
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the balance of payments, gold transactions, reorganization of the structure of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field offices, and the code of conduct for Treasury Department employees. Also included in this folder is a copy of a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon from British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore. This folder also contains a copy of Executive Order 10939 dated May 5, 1961.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials consist of a memorandum and report to the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon on measures to improve the balance of payments. Also included is a memoradum and report to the President from Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon regarding the Second Quarterly Report on International Transactions of the Federal Government.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include gold transactions, tax reform, the balance of payments, and proposed changes in the organizational structure of Internal Revenue Service field offices. Also included in this folder are copies of Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon's statement before the Joint Economic Committee and a speech by Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler titled, "The President's Tax and Expenditure Control Program- Key to Economic Policy in the Sixties."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include tax cuts, gold, the balance of payments, the Export Expansion Program, and financial relations between the United States and France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-090-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include gold transactions, the balance of payments, survey results of the National Association of Business Economics, and the tax policy. Of note is a copy of a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from economist John Maynard Keynes dated February 1, 1938. Also included in this folder is a report of the Special Committee on Improvements to New York City piers.
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JFKPOF-090-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act (H.R. 10), a progress report on long-range international payments, the Federal Reserve, a bill for foreign aid appropriations (H.R. 13175), and the resignation of John M. Leddy as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Also included in this folder is a report to the President from Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon regarding the balance of payments.
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JFKPOF-090-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Topics include the embargo on Cuba, a compensatory financing proposal, the establishment of a narcotics working group, a meeting between the President and the Advisory Committee on Banking to the Comptroller of the Currency. Also included in this folder is a summary of a conversation regarding economic issues between the President and Senior Consultant to the Secretary of the Treasury Seymour E. Harris.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-089a-009
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of the Treasury. Materials consist of a draft report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York titled, "United States Treasury and Federal Reserve System Foreign Exchange Operations, March 1961-August 1962."
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JFKPOF-004-002
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and individuals and organizations both known and unknown to the President. Materials are mainly expressions of and responses to public opinion. Of note is an issue of the NASA Lewis Research Center newsletter Orbit; correspondence with lobbyist Florence S. Mahoney, including a report supporting psychiatric screening of prospective Peace Corps volunteers; letters and photographs from Walter S. MacRae, a longtime correspondent of President Kennedy; a holiday card from British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Lady Dorothy Macmillan; and a letter from Edward M. Kennedy.
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JFKPOF-078a-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Federal Renegotiation Board, and pertain to the appointment of Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. to the Federal Renegotiation Board.
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JFKPOF-078a-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Federal Power Commission (FCP). Topics include gas rate increases in Tennessee, possible candidates for a Republican opening on the FPC, and Presidential authority to designate an FCP chairman.