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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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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
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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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
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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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-007
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's sister Kathleen Kennedy. Materials include an article written by Kathleen Kennedy in 1942 sent to President Kennedy by Elliot S. Hansen.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-006
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and President Kennedy's nephew Joseph P. Kennedy II. Materials include personal correspondence from Kennedy as a child.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-005
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Materials consist of an annual report of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation submitted by Executive Director Robert Sargent Shriver and a letter from Ambassador to Spain Antonio Garrigues to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy regarding his friendship with Joseph P Kennedy, Jr.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-004
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning President Kennedy's father Joseph P. Kennedy. Materials mainly represent official matters, including general correspondence and presidential requests forwarded from the office of Kennedy by his assistant James A. Fayne. Items include a 1928 news clipping about the Kennedy family, a 1937 magazine article about Kennedy, a copy of a 1946 letter from Kennedy to F. H. McKelvey of the Lincoln, Massachusetts school department, and inquiries about the Kennedy family.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-003
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and President Kennedy's brother and Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Materials mainly represent official matters, including general correspondence and presidential requests forwarded from the office of Senator Kennedy's secretary Mary Jane Duris. Items include clippings and photographs of Senator Kennedy campaigning for President Kennedy in 1960 and a letter from heavyweight boxing champion James "Gene" Tunney.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-002
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Kennan. Topics include President Kennedy's foreign policy, President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, and United States-Yugoslav relations.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-031-001
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. Materials mainly represent both official and personal matters, including a letter sent to then President-elect Kennedy. Items include a 1956 list of Kefauver's voting record as both a senator and congressman and President Kennedy's handwritten notes for a statement on Kefauver's death. A letter from Mrs. Nancy Kefauver is also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-021
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Materials mainly consist of Johnson's views and advice on domestic, political and foreign affairs, memorandums, and press releases of remarks made by the Vice President. Topics include recommendations regarding commercial use of supersonic transports, the Plan for Progress program, and Civil Rights. Of note are materials relating to Vice President Johnson's role as Chairman of the Space Council, including a memorandum reporting on Space Council Activities in 1962; memorandums regarding the moon program and the potential military applications of the Space Program; and information regarding the health of astronaut Donald K. Slayton, one of the original "Mercury Seven" astronauts, who was grounded due to heart fibrillation. Personal correspondence between the President and the Vice President is found throughout.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-020
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Materials mainly consist of Johnson's views and advice on domestic and foreign affairs, memorandums, and press releases of official correspondence. Topics include the foreign economic aid program and the National Space Program. Of note are materials relating to Vice President Johnson's trips to Europe, Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan, including an informal log recording Johnson's around the world trip by James A. Suffridge of the Retail Clerks International Association.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-019
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Materials mainly represent Johnson's views and advice on domestic and foreign affairs. Of note are materials relating to Vice President Johnson's role as Chairman of the Space Council, including a summary evaluation of the National Space Program and a detailed report titled "Recommendations for our National Space Program: Changes, Policies and Goals." Also of interest is a memorandum recording Johnson's impressions and evaluations following a trip to Southeast Asia, India and Pakistan.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-018
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Materials include personal and official correspondence with then Senator John F. Kennedy. Of note is a telegram from Johnson requesting Kennedy's advice on how best to respond to meeting request from the President Elect of Mexico [Adolfo Lopez Mateos]; and a statement made by Johnson, then Senate Majority Leader, before the Senate regarding the 1960 federal budget. A typewritten note addressed to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-017
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Senator Henry M. Jackson ("Scoop"). Materials mainly represent Jackson's views and advice on political and national security affairs. Of note is a memorandum, sent in response to a request from then President Elect Kennedy, with Jackson's recommendations for key positions in Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission; a copy of an address by Jackson titled "The Rediscovery of Excellence"; and the transcript of a lecture given by Jackson before the National War College regarding the National Security Council.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-016
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. Materials mainly represent Humphrey's views and advice on political and foreign affairs. Topics include nuclear disarmament policy and Humphrey's visit to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Of note are materials relating to Humphrey's visit to Berlin in 1961, including a lengthy memorandum to President Kennedy regarding the Berlin situation and German language newspaper clippings about his visit.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-015
This folder contains a letter from journalist Emmet John Hughes to President John F. Kennedy. Hughes writes to express his support and well wishes for the President.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-014
This folder consists of a letter sent to Evelyn Lincoln, Personal Secretary to the late President John F. Kennedy, from lifelong Kennedy friend Ralph Horton, Jr. ("Rip") in 1965. Horton writes that he is attaching a letter sent by John F. Kennedy in 1942 to Horton's fiancee, Jane, the day their engagement was announced. A copy of the letter is included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-013
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover. Materials are mainly statements of support and goodwill. Of note is a letter from Hoover to then President Elect Kennedy expressing his appreciation that he will continue as Director of the FBI during the Kennedy Administration, and a letter from Hoover expressing his support of the President's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-030-012
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and former United States President Herbert Hoover. Materials are mainly statements of support and goodwill. Of note is correspondence regarding Hoover's views on the proposed Trade Expansion Program.