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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-LCH-02
In this interview Heinz discusses his primary contacts in other government agencies; the Vietnam task force; the different political trips and survey missions to Vietnam; the Maxwell D. Taylor-Walt W. Rostow mission to Vietnam and subsequent report; the Ngo Dinh Diem regime; the rise in interest in the concept of counterinsurgency; problems with working in Vietnam; changing the terrain in Vietnam with the use of defoliants; the Strategic Hamlet program; how to measure success in warfare; the International Control Commission; General Paul D. Harkins; the various agency reports coming out of Vietnam and interagency meetings; the Buddhist crisis in the summer of 1963; the appointment of Henry Cabot Lodge as Ambassador; and the military coup in Saigon and the rumors leading up to it, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-05
In this interview Komer discusses working with McGeorge Bundy; the “inner circle” of the Bundy State Department; Komer’s major contacts; the intelligence system; the power and responsibilities of the State Department; how Bundy screened what President John F. Kennedy [JFK] would see; relations with other key officials; Robert F. Kennedy and foreign policy issues; the Bundy State Department and White House staff; the “little State Department” in the White House; the bureaucratic role of the State Department; U.S. foreign policy in Asia; relations with key U.S. Ambassadors; handling Arab-Israeli issues; domestic pressures of American-Jewish community on JFK; Arabists in the Kennedy Administration; working with Myer Feldman on Israeli issues; the United States, Saudi Arabia, and oil; filling the power vacuum left by the British; dealing with Congress on foreign aid matters; counterinsurgency; and looking back at programs during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-03
In this interview Komer discusses negotiating disengagement with Gamal Abdel Nasser and Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia; John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] involvement in the Yemen crisis and the negotiations with Nasser and Faisal; U.S. New Guinea policy and the Dutch-Indonesian conflict; JFK and counterinsurgency; Komer and police programs as part of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts; JFK’s policy towards and involvement with India and Pakistan; U.S. military assistance to India, 1962; and U.S. missions to Pakistan and India, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-03
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1962 steel crisis; some major issues and accomplishments of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] presidency; choosing the U.S. Ambassador to Russia; foreign aid and treaties; the military coup in Peru; the space race during the Kennedy Administration; the 1962 congressional and gubernatorial campaigns; JFK’s dinner for the Nobel Prize winners; the Polaris submarines; problems with the New York Herald Tribune; New York politics; various pieces of federal legislation, 1961–1963; the Dominican Republic; Department of Justice investigations under RFK; the difficulties of being Attorney General; congressional issues in early 1963; the Vietnam War escalation in 1963; American support of the coup in Vietnam; Henry Cabot Lodge as the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; the prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion; American actions in Cuba; unemployment and civil rights; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin; JFK’s trips to the South and speeches on civil rights; the nuclear test ban treaty; and JFK’s trip to Ireland and Rome, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-02
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1961 Berlin crisis; American forces, military and diplomatic, in Germany; John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] recommendation for Americans to have fallout shelters; nuclear testing; problems with the Department of State; the start of the conflict in Vietnam, 1961; the Department of Justice under RFK and organized crime; RFK’s difficult relationship with J. Edgar Hoover; the wiretapping bill; new federal judgeships in 1961 and other presidential appointments; the Alliance for Progress; Red China; crises during JFK’s presidency and how he was an optimist; RFK’s move for an income tax increase during the Berlin crisis; RFK’s disagreements with President JFK; indecisiveness over picking JFK’s running mate, 1960; the missile gap; fighting and UN operations in the Congo; Nikita S. Khrushchev’s speeches; RFK’s 1962 trip to Japan, Indonesia, Germany, and other countries; the release of Allen L. Pope; Dutch disputes in Southeast Asia; the 1961 crisis in the Dominican Republic and the assassination of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina; the 1962 disarmament conference in Geneva; Edward M. Kennedy’s 1962 campaign for U.S. Senate; the Kennedy family national and political reputation; the Justice Department under RFK and civil rights; and the 1962 steel crisis, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-01
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses beginning John F. Kennedy's [JFK] presidential Administration with no political obligations; carefully picking Cabinet members, specifically Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury; RFK’s decision on what role to play in JFK’s Administration; JFK’s unhappiness with Dean Rusk as Secretary of State; JFK’s advisers and other presidential appointments; Cabinet meetings; Department of Justice organization under RFK; the first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration; the role of the Vice President, according to RFK; JFK’s relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson and why JFK put Johnson on the ticket in 1960; what JFK was most concerned with as President; domestic programs versus foreign affairs in the Kennedy Administration; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s role during JFK’s presidency; the Bay of Pigs, the aftermath, and its effect on JFK; how JFK approached problems as President; dealing with Georgi Bolshakov; negotiating with the Soviet Union in Vienna, over Laos and Cuba, etc.; JFK’s relationship with foreign heads of state; State Department staff and U.S. Ambassadors; the military coup in Vietnam; the Berlin crisis of the summer of 1961 and the Berlin Wall; RFK’s 1961 trip to the Ivory Coast; and Soviet and American nuclear testing, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-10-D
AR28, KN24
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-25-K
KN23
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-14-A
AR29, ST15, KN25
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C28855
President John F. Kennedy attends arrival ceremonies for President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Left to right: unidentified; US Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; unidentified Indian military aide; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; President Radhakrishnan; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell Shepard; President Kennedy; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; General Maxwell D. Taylor; Indian Ambassador to the United States, B. K. Nehru, and his wife, Shobha “Fori” Nehru; unidentified; US Ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith. North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M13-6-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Jean Kennedy Smith; David Bell, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; General Maxwell Taylor, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Miriam Judd, wife of Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Secretary of State Dean Rusk (back to camera); Ruth duPont, wife of Henry Francis duPont (back to camera); businessman and philanthropist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.; Pauline V. Hoving, wife of Tiffany & Company owner Walter Hoving (partially hidden); Aziz Ahmed, Pakistan Ambassador to the United States. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M13-10-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): General Maxwell Taylor, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Miriam Judd, wife of Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; businessman and philanthropist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.; Pauline V. Hoving, wife of Tiffany & Company owner Walter Hoving (back to camera); Aziz Ahmed, Pakistan Ambassador to the United States (back to camera); Jean Kennedy Smith (partially hidden); David Bell, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24451
Arrival ceremonies for President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Touré; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea, Louis Lansana Béavogui; Ambassador of Guinea, Dr. Seydou Conte; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; United States Ambassador to Guinea, William Attwood; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Ambassador of Vietnam, Tran Van Chuong; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Director of West Coast and Malian Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, William C. Trimble; U.S. State Department interpreter, José de Seabra; U.S. Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King. Members of the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets stand in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24450
President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré, delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea, Louis Lansana Béavogui; Ambassador of Guinea, Dr. Seydou Conte; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; President Touré (at microphones); President John F. Kennedy; United States Ambassador to Guinea, William Attwood (in back); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Ambassador of Vietnam, Tran Van Chuong; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Director of West Coast and Malian Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, William C. Trimble; U.S. Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; U.S. State Department interpreter, José de Seabra; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. Members of the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets stand in background; members of the press gather in foreground. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24449
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in honor of President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea, Louis Lansana Béavogui; President Touré; Ambassador of Guinea, Dr. Seydou Conte; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball (in back); President Kennedy (at microphones); United States Ambassador to Guinea, William Attwood (in back); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn. Also pictured: Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Director of West Coast and Malian Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, William C. Trimble; U.S. Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; U.S. State Department interpreter, José de Seabra; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; White House Secret Service agent, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn. Members of the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets stand in background; members of the press gather in foreground. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24447
Arrival ceremonies for President of Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré. Left to right (in foreground): Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor (greeting President Touré); U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn; U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (in back, partially hidden); Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Touré; President John F. Kennedy (back to camera); U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (partially hidden on edge of frame). Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24888
Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer (at microphones), delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Ambassador of West Germany, Karl Heinrich Knappstein. Also pictured: Assistant Chief of Language Services at the State Department, interpreter Nora Lejins; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Virginia Rusk. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24887
Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer (at microphones), delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform: President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Ambassador of West Germany, Karl Heinrich Knappstein. Also pictured: Assistant Chief of Language Services at the State Department, interpreter Nora Lejins; State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Dr. Karl Carstens; Virginia Rusk. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24876
Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, prepares to greet dignitaries in the receiving line during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Virginia Rusk, wife of U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chancellor Adenauer; Deputy Chief of Protocol, William J. Tonesk (back to camera); First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber. Also pictured: Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. “Smokey” Stover; White House Secret Service agent, Jim Johnson. South Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24873
President John F. Kennedy and Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer (both at center left), greet dignitaries in the receiving line during arrival ceremonies in honor of Chancellor Adenauer. Also pictured: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, William R. Tyler; Bettine “Betsy” Tyler; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. “Smokey” Stover; White House Secret Service agents, Jim Johnson and Floyd Boring. South Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24872
President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in honor of Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer. Standing on reviewing platform: Chancellor Adenauer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; Minister of Foreign Affairs of West Germany, Gerhard Schröder; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Ambassador of West Germany, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Assistant Chief of Language Services at the State Department, interpreter Nora Lejins. Also pictured: State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Dr. Karl Carstens; Virginia Rusk; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24871
President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in honor of Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer. Standing on reviewing platform: Chancellor Adenauer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; Minister of Foreign Affairs of West Germany, Gerhard Schröder; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Ambassador of West Germany, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Assistant Chief of Language Services at the State Department, interpreter Nora Lejins. Also pictured: State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Dr. Karl Carstens; Virginia Rusk; U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, Walter C. Dowling; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24870
President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in honor of Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Konrad Adenauer. Standing on reviewing platform: Chancellor Adenauer; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Libeth Werhahn, daughter of Chancellor Adenauer; Minister of Foreign Affairs of West Germany, Gerhard Schröder; interpreter for the German Foreign Ministry, Heinz Weber; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Ambassador of West Germany, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Assistant Chief of Language Services at the State Department, interpreter Nora Lejins. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Virginia Rusk, wife of U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; State Secretary of the German Foreign Office, Dr. Karl Carstens; Lydia Taylor; U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, Walter C. Dowling. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.