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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, 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-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-1962-06-22-C
AR23
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-02-07-A
AR16
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6498-B
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend a meeting of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Front row: Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; President Kennedy; health activist Mary Woodward (Woodard) Lasker; Vice President Johnson. Committee members pictured include Dean of the Washington National Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) in Washington, D.C. the Very Reverend Francis B. Sayre, Jr.; president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) George Meany; Chairman of Kaiser Steel Corporation Edgar F. Kaiser; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John W. Macy, Jr.; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins; Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Glenn Seaborg; Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric.
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JFKWHP-AR6498-A
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend a meeting of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Seated: Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; President Kennedy; Vice President Johnson. Those standing include President of Mechanics and Farmers Bank John H. Wheeler; Dean of the Washington National Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul) in Washington, D.C. the Very Reverend Francis B. Sayre, Jr.; president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) George Meany; Chairman of Kaiser Steel Corporation Edgar F. Kaiser; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John W. Macy, Jr.; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins; Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Glenn Seaborg.
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JFKWHP-KN-C17493
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend a meeting of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) George Meany; Chairman of Kaiser Steel Corporation Edgar F. Kaiser; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John W. Macy, Jr.; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins; President Kennedy; health activist Mary Woodward (Woodard) Lasker; Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Glenn Seaborg (partially hidden behind Lasker); unidentified; Vice President Johnson; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric.
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JFKWHP-KN-C17492
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend a meeting of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) George Meany; Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; President Kennedy; health activist Mary Woodward (Woodard) Lasker; Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Glenn Seaborg (partially hidden behind Lasker); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell Gilpatric.
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JFKWHP-KN-C17491
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson attend a meeting of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity in the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Seated: Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg; President Kennedy; Vice President Johnson. Those standing include president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) George Meany; Chairman of Kaiser Steel Corporation Edgar F. Kaiser; Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John W. Macy, Jr.; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (NCWC) Monsignor George Gilmary Higgins; Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Glenn Seaborg; Secretary of the Army Elvis J. Stahr.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-I
President John F. Kennedy speaks during a ceremony for the signing of Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg look on. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-H
Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg speaks during a ceremony for the signing of Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and President John F. Kennedy look on. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-F
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, and an unidentified signer (center) attend a signing ceremony for Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-E
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg sit with an unidentified signer (center) during a signing ceremony for Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-D
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, and an unidentified signer (center) attend a signing ceremony for Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-C
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks during a ceremony for the signing of Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg look on. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-B
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg stand with a signer of a Plans for Progress agreement in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers.
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JFKWHP-AR7024-A
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg, and representatives of leading employers attend a ceremony for the signing of Plans for Progress agreements in the State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress is an equal opportunity employment agreement signed by a voluntary association of employers; thirty-one major defense contractors signed at this ceremony.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-I
President John F. Kennedy speaks at a ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee, sit on either side of President Kennedy. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-H
President John F. Kennedy speaks at a ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee, and Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, sit on either side of President Kennedy. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-G
Ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. L-R: President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee; unidentified. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-F
Ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee, sits at left; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, stands right of Vice President Johnson; others unidentified. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-E
Ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, sits at left; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee, sits in middle; others unidentified. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-D
President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Committee, addresses attendees; Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, sits to right of Vice President Johnson; an unidentified man sits at far right. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-AR7317-C
President John F. Kennedy attends a ceremony marking the signing of equal opportunity agreements in association with Plans for Progress, a program of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg, Vice Chairman of the Committee, stands at right. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.