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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-AUG-01
In this interview Heckscher discusses John F. Kennedy [JFK] and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis as an “inspiration to cultural life”; Heckscher’s involvement in government affairs prior to becoming a Special Consultant to the President; the invitation of 168 artists to JFK’s 1961 inauguration and its impact; how Heckscher came to work for the White House; discussing Heckscher’s position with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; the reasoning behind the creation of the new position of Special Consultant on the Arts and the favorable public reaction to it; enlarging the definition of “The Arts,” especially regarding architecture; Arthur Goldberg; the establishment of the Freedom Medal; creating the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts through executive order; personal impressions of JFK; setting up Heckscher’s office and staff; how Heckscher was meant to advise JFK and what his position entailed; the Cultural Center [Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]; conversations with JFK; Mrs. Kennedy’s expansive work for the arts; the arts as part of national policy; working with other White House staff members and other Departments; designing special postage stamps; what the President’s role in the arts should be; and the Fine Arts Commission, 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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-02-23-B
AR03
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6370-B
Secretary of Labor, Arthur J. Goldberg (second from right), meets with reporters in the Office of the White House Press Secretary, White House, Washington, D.C. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger stands at right. Standing at left: dean of the White House press corps and United Press International (UPI) reporter, Merriman "Smitty" Smith; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6370-A
Secretary of Labor, Arthur J. Goldberg (in front of middle window), meets with reporters in the Office of the White House Press Secretary, White House, Washington, D.C. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger stands right of Secretary Goldberg. Also pictured: LOOK Magazine photographer, Stanley Tretick; dean of the White House press corps and United Press International (UPI) reporter, Merriman "Smitty" Smith; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6373-A
President John F. Kennedy reads a statement for the newsreel press about the settlement of the airline labor dispute, recorded in the Conference Room (Fish Room), White House, Washington, D.C. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg stands at right.
Collection
FCWEPP
Papers 1967-1970. Biographers. Co-authors, Reuther (1970). Research materials: notes, tapes, and transcripts of interviews with labor and public officials including Walter Reuther, Victor Reuther, George Meany, Arthur Goldberg, and others. 78-326.