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JFKWHP-ST-A26-2-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-19-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. (L-R) President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (seated), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-18-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden), Under Secretary of State George Ball (partially hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy stands at far left; President Kennedy (looking down, with hands on table) and Secretary of State Dean Rusk stand at far right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-17-62
President John F. Kennedy (center right, in profile) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (partially obscured by column), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, President Kennedy, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (partially hidden behind the President). The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-16-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone, Under Secretary of State George Ball (mostly hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy (mostly hidden behind Secretary Rusk), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (on far edge of frame) stand at right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-15-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze (mostly hidden behind the President), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-14-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-13-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-12-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-11-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze (partially hidden, left of column), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor (mostly hidden, right of column), and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-1-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden behind Director Foster). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-10-62
President John F. Kennedy (back to camera) speaks with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, President Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze (mostly hidden behind the President), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. The President met with members of the EXCOMM that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKNSF
A subfile of the Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy constituting the working files of McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. It is the primary foreign policy file of the Kennedy White House and consists of the following series: Countries, Regional Security Files, Trips and Conferences, Departments and Agencies, Subjects, Meetings and Memorandums, and staff files of Chester V. Clifton, Carl Kaysen, William H. Brubeck, Ralph Dungan, McGeorge Bundy, Robert W. Komer, Henry Kissinger, Charles Johnson, and Bromley K. Smith.
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MMPP
Papers 1958-1961. Educator. Professor of economics and director, Center for International Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Correspondence with President Kennedy on the Presidential transition and other subjects.
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RENPP
Papers 1949-1991. Educator, political scientist, government consultant, author. Professor of government, Columbia University (1954-1964) and John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1965-1975); author, Presidential Power (1960); consultant to the President (1961-1966); consultant to the Bureau of the Budget (1961-1970); consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission (1962-1968); chairman of the Democratic Platform Committee (1972). Correspondence, memorandums, minutes, reports, writings, speeches, interview notes, news clippings, and background research materials.
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AMSPP
Papers 1939-1969. Historian, government official, Special Assistant to the President for Latin American Affairs (1961-63); author, A Thousand Days (1965). Correspondence, reports, speeches, subject files, news clippings, research materials, book drafts, writings, diaries, White House files.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-9-62
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (right) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. President Kennedy met with Secretary McNamara and other members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-5-62
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (right) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. President Kennedy met with Secretary McNamara and other members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-ST-A26-4-62
President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (right) in the West Wing Colonnade outside the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. President Kennedy met with Secretary McNamara and other members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) that day regarding the crisis in Cuba.
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JFKWHP-KN-C20897
President John F. Kennedy talks with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. of Delaware (mostly hidden); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; President Kennedy; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; and Congressman John J. Rooney (New York). Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (far right) and Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (far left) sit in the foreground.
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JFKWHP-KN-C20895
President John F. Kennedy meets with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; unidentified; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute; President Kennedy; Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (in back, partially hidden); Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington); James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Congressman Frank T. Bow (Ohio); Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles; and Congressman Wayne L. Hays (Ohio). Also present: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, and Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
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JFKWHP-KN-C20896
President John F. Kennedy talks with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (Delaware); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; President Kennedy; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; and Congressman John J. Rooney (New York). Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (gesturing with his right hand) sits in the foreground at left. [Blemish across bottom portion of image is original to the negative].
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JFKWHP-KN-C20894
President John F. Kennedy meets with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs (facing away); two unidentified; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; Senator J. W. Fulbright (Arkansas); Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute; President Kennedy; Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington); James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Congressman Frank T. Bow (Ohio); and Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles. Also present: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, and Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
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JFKWHP-AR7149-B
President John F. Kennedy talks with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (Clockwise from top): Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame; Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (Delaware); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; President Kennedy; James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Congressman John J. Rooney (New York); two unidentified; Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (back to camera); Senator Warren G. Magnuson (Washington); unidentified; Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles; unidentified; Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; unidentified; Roy E. Larsen, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Time, Inc.; and Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute. Also present at the meeting are: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University; Congressman Frank T. Bow (Ohio); Congressman Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago; and Senator Karl E. Mundt (South Dakota).
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JFKWHP-AR7149-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Congressman Harris B. McDowell, Jr. (Delaware); Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Philip H. Coombs; unidentified (in back); Mabel M. Smythe, Principal of New Lincoln High School, New York City; Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, President of the University of Notre Dame (in back, mostly hidden); unidentified; President Kennedy; Dr. Luther H. Foster, President of Tuskegee Institute; Dr. John W. Gardner, Chairman of the Commission and President of the Carnegie Corporation; Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas (in back, mostly hidden); James R. Fleming, publisher of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette; Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington (in back, facing away); Dr. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles; Senator Karl E. Mundt (South Dakota); Congressman Wayne L. Hays (Ohio); Congressman Frank T. Bow of Ohio (in back, mostly hidden); and Congressman John J. Rooney of New York (facing away). Also present: Walter Adams, Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, and Walter Johnson, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago.