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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-007
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy's aunt and godmother, Mrs. George W. Connelly, also known as "Aunt Loretta." Materials consist primarily of greeting cards, thank you notes, well wishes, and general correspondence of a personal nature.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-006
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy's aunt and godmother, Mrs. George W. Connelly, also known as "Aunt Loretta." Materials consist primarily of greeting cards, thank you notes, well wishes, and general correspondence of a personal nature.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-005
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and lawyer and presidential advisor Clark M Clifford. Materials mainly represent Clifford's views and advice on both official and personal matters. Topics include the 1960 presidential campaign, donations for the Committee of the Fine Arts Commission for the White House, and Clifford's involvement and eventual chairmanship of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. A copy of Clifford's Washington University speech "Government and Business Today: Does the reality conform to the myth?" is also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-004
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning General Lucius D. Clay. Materials consist primarily of staff memorandums offering views and advice on Clay's assignment as Personal Representative to the President on the United States Mission to Berlin. Items include a report on the scope and distribution of United States military and economic assistance programs from the Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, of which Clay was a member. Staff memorandums on the report and subsequent meetings between President Kennedy and Clay are also included. Correspondence between President Kennedy and Clay is found throughout.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-003
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and contains an interim report prepared by the Documents Division of the Central Intelligence Agency titled: "Foreign Press Reaction to United States Conferment of Honorary Citizenship on Sir Winston Churchill."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-002
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill and others. Materials mainly consist of news clippings and correspondence regarding the White House Ceremony in which Churchill was declared an honorary citizen of the United States. Letters from Churchill thanking President Kennedy for the honorary citizenship are also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-029-001
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Winston Churchill, and others. Materials mainly consist of information and correspondence regarding the resolution to declare Churchill an honorary citizen of the United States. Personal telegrams exchanged between President Kennedy and Churchill are also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-023
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from author Randolph S. Churchill. Items include a publication entitled "An Open Letter to the Right Reverend Bishop Fulton Sheen from Mr. Randolph Spencer Churchill, M.B.E. Regarding the activities of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Luce and of 'Time' magazine" and a congratulatory telegram.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-022
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and journalist and educator Douglass Cater. Materials mainly consist of Cater's views on domestic and foreign affairs, clippings, and letters of a personal nature. Topics include the challenges to public school desegregation in New Orleans, Louisiana. Of note is a copy of a report from Cater to Secretary of State Dean Rusk containing recommendations on how to better coordinate governmental activities in the use of propaganda as political warfare.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-021
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning cellist Pablo Casals. Materials primarily concern a White House Dinner given in honor of Governor Luis Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico, which was followed by a concert by Casals. This was the first time that Casals had agreed to perform in the United States since the government had recognized the regime of dictator Francisco Franco of Spain, the cellist’s native country. Items include correspondence between President Kennedy and Casals, a copy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) file on Casals, clippings, and a performance program.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-020
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from John F. Kennedy's paternal aunt, Margaret Burke, also known as "Aunt Margaret," and consists of letters of a personal nature.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-019
This folder contains a letter from William P. Bundy, staff director of the President's Commission on National Goals, to then Senator John F. Kennedy regarding a report being prepared for publication by the Commission.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-018
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning United States Ambassador David K. E. Bruce. This folder contains a document from President Kennedy to Ambassador Bruce instructing the Ambassador to review certain leading United States policies toward Europe and then make recommendations for action in the coming months. The document contains detailed questions for consideration on the topics of foreign economic policy; the plan for a multilateral North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nuclear force; negotiations with the Soviet Union; and relations with Germany, the United Kingdom, and France. A draft version of the document is also included.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-017
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from Governor Edmund G. Brown ("Pat") of California. Items consist of letters to then Senator and President-elect John F. Kennedy. Topics are of a general nature and primarily relate to the 1960 election.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-016
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from Kennedy friend and journalist Benjamin C. Bradlee. Materials mainly represent Bradlee's views and advice on both personal and political matters. Of note is a memorandum for then Senator John F. Kennedy providing Bradlee's assessment of Senator Lyndon Johnson's potential as a Presidential candidate in the 1960 election.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-015
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Chester Bowles ("Chet"), the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, and Ambassador at Large. Materials mainly represent Bowles' views and advice on foreign affairs. Topics include foreign aid, nuclear testing, and United States foreign policy in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Of note is a report by Bowles on foreign aid titled "Proposal for a New Operational Framework for Foreign Economic Assistance"; a letter to President Kennedy in which Bowles expresses concern over perceived inaction with regard to his recommendations for foreign policy in Africa, Asia and Latin America; a memorandum summarizing major foreign policy recommendation made by Bowles in 1962; and a memorandum summarizing a conversation between Bowles and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-014
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Chester Bowles ("Chet"), the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs, and Ambassador at Large. Materials mainly represent Bowles' views and advice on foreign affairs. Topics include foreign aid, United States policy and objectives in Southeast Asia, and a proposal for a National Community Development Program in Colombia. Of note is a report by Bowles concerning the foreign aid program titled "The Need for More Specific Criteria in the Programming Economic Assistance." Also of interest is a memorandum summarizing a conversation between Bowles and Counselor of the Polish Embassy Dr. Marian Dobrosielski.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-013
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, with and concerning Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles ("Chet"). In December 1961, Bowles was replaced as Undersecretary of State and was subsequently appointed the President's Special Representative and Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs and United States Ambassador at Large. Materials consist primarily of Bowles' views and advice on foreign affairs, and correspondence concerning Bowles' replacement within the Department of State. Topics include the Berlin situation, United States-Soviet relations, United States foreign policy and political objectives in Southeast Asia, and suggestions for how to achieve Alliance for Progress objectives in Colombia.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-012
This folder consists of correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, from policy adviser and Undersecretary of State Chester Bowles ("Chet"). Materials mainly represent Bowles' views and advice on foreign and domestic affairs. Topics include United States foreign policy, including the effect of domestic affairs upon foreign policy; United States foreign aid programs and new economic aid legislation; and how to deal with adverse public reaction abroad in response to renewed nuclear weapons testing by the United States.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-011
This folder contains a handwritten note from the Department of State to diplomat Charles E. Bohlen.
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JFKPOF-028-010
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Materials consist of letters from U.S. Steel chairman Roger M. Blough and lawyer Lloyd N. Cutler to President John F. Kennedy expressing their appreciation for a message sent by President Kennedy on the occasion of the presentation of a Yale Law School Award to Mr. Blough.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-009
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Materials consist of a congratulatory message from President John F. Kennedy to United States Ambassador William McCormick Blair Jr. and his wife, Catherine Gerlach Blair, sent on the occasion of their marriage, and a copy of an invitation to their wedding.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-008
This folder consists of correspondence between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and lifelong Kennedy friend and associate K. Lemoyne Billings ("Lem"). Materials mainly represent both personal and political matters. Items include letters expressing public opinion and requests for autographed photographs of the President. Of note is correspondence regarding foreign tourism and the establishment of the United States Travel Service within the Department of Commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-007
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Materials consist of a letter from Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Hans A. Bethe to President Kennedy discussing atmospheric and underground testing of nuclear weapons and a letter from Dr. Bethe's wife, Rose Bethe, thanking President Kennedy for personally presenting the Fermi Prize to her husband.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-028-006
This folder contains correspondence collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Materials consist of a handwritten letter from Irish author and playwright Brendan Behan to President John F. Kennedy, containing an anecdote about the 15th century head of the Fitzgerald clan, and a typewritten transcription of the letter.