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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-06
In this interview Komer discusses U.S. aid to India and Pakistan and some problems involved with it, including the question of long-term U.S. aid and a shift in focus from Pakistan to India; problems with the Agency for International Development; oil and U.S. policy; U.S. involvement in the Congo; Komer’s meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] and how Komer briefed him; the relations among JFK, Dean Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adlai E. Stevenson, and McGeorge Bundy; JFK’s interest in India and Pakistan and his attempt at a mediation between the two on Kashmir; and JFK and Algeria and Morocco, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-02
In this interview Komer discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] personal diplomacy with the United Arab Republic [UAR] through letters; normalizing U.S.-Egypt relations; the Yemen conflict and U.S. interests; negotiating Yemen with M. Harold Macmillan and the attempt to have the United Kingdom recognize the Yemen Republic; dealing with Gamal Abdel Nasser; and difficulties with Saudi Arabia and the UAR, 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.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-028a-011
This folder contains memoranda and telegrams regarding the crisis in the Congo and attempted reintegration of Katanga, United States operating plan and policy for the Congo, and U.S. military aid to support UNOC (the United Nations Operation in the Congo).
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-316-005
This folder contains summaries and Record of Actions of National Security Council (NSC) Executive Committee meetings regarding negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union for a declaration agreement on the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. policy towards Cuba and Brazil, and U.S. military assistance to the Congo.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-319a-002
This folder contains memoranda, telegrams, and letters between National Security Council staff member Samuel E. Belk and various persons. Topics include the treatment of Jewish persons in the Soviet Union, a request for President John F. Kennedy to meet with victims of the Hiroshima bombing to discuss nuclear testing, the Congo, peace keeping expenses in the United Nations (UN), and a request by African students in Bulgaria and other Bloc countries for assistance to transfer to Western European schools.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-318-002
This folder contains memoranda and indexes of materials compiled for President John F. Kennedy’s weekend reading. Topics include United States relations with the United Arab Republic (UAR) and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Soviet Union, Berlin, trade between Yugoslavia and various countries, Laos, Congo, and a meeting between President Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-014
This folder contains summaries of meetings with President John F. Kennedy. Topics include wool textiles and international trade, a conflict in Yemen and its relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, European interest in a potential multilateral force, Congo, and an upcoming visit by King Hassan II of Morocco.
Collection
EAGPP
Papers 1943-1997 (bulk 1953-1971). Diplomat, educator. Career foreign service officer (1937-1964), Deputy Director of the U.S. Disarmament Administration (1960-1961), U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo (1961-1964), Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1964-1978). Correspondence, speeches, oral history interviews, reports, publications, news clippings, photographs.