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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
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0005
Photograph of Burke Marshall (left) and Robert F. Kennedy (right) seated at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on civil rights legislation. Caption at the bottom of the photograph reads, "Washington, Aug. 1 -- HUDDLE UNDER QUESTIONING--Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy confers with his civil rights deputy, Burke Marshall, left, while being questioned before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. It was Kennedy's sixth appearance during hearing [sic] on civil rights legislation." A hand-made caption above Mr. Marshall reads, "And put down a chapter on the problems of the average American Negro by Lena Horne." Verso contains a "World Wide Photos" stamp.
Collection
BMPP
Papers 1944-2003. Lawyer, government official, professor. Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice (1961-1964); Partner, Covington and Burling (1965); General Counsel (1965-1969) and Vice President (1969), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM); Professor of Law, Yale University (1970-2003). Personal and professional correspondence, writings, subject files, organizational materials, and legal documents relating to civil rights legislation, events, and organizations; Robert F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family; the John. F. Kennedy Presidential Library; and Yale University.