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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-1963-08-20-A
AR39, ST28
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-046-012
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's remarks to a group of Brazilian student leaders in the new flower garden of the White House. In his speech the President discusses the mission of the Alliance for Progress, and explains how foreign investments can improve Latin American economies.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-112-015
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Brazil. Materials concern meetings between President Kennedy and Governor-elect of Ceará Virgílio Távora, Governor of Parana Ney Braga, and Brazilian Minister of Finance San Tiago Dantas; economic aid to Brazil; and the Brazilian political situation. Of note is a memorandum to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin from Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) Thomas L. Hughes titled, "INR Comments on Embassy Rio Telegram 373 Concerning the Brazilian Political Situation." Also included in this folder is a summary of a meeting between President of Brazil João Goulart and United States Ambassador to Brazil Lincoln Gordon, and a memorandum titled, "Proposed Short Term Policy-Brazil."
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-112-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Brazil. Materials concern Brazil's financial situation, the political situation with the resignation of President Jânio Quadros, and the presentation of credentials by Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Roberto de Oliveira Campos.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-328-015
This folder contains memoranda to President John F. Kennedy from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk in reference to National Security Action Memoranda number 14 (NSAM 14) discussing financial assistance for Brazil.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-290-025
This folder contains memoranda concerning the second anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, a comprehensive foreign aid initiative intended to encourage economic, social, and political prosperity and stability in Latin America. Also included in this folder is a report issued by the United States Information Agency’s Research and Reference Service titled, “The Economic and Political Climate of Opinion in Latin America and Attitudes Toward the Alliance for Progress.” The report includes the results of a public opinion survey in seven countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-290-023
This folder contains a Staff Report prepared by the Bureau of the Budget titled, “Survey of the Alliance for Progress Program in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia (June 16-July 12, 1962),” concerning the management and stability of the Alliance for Progress program in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile.
Collection
USPCPC
Photographs, 1961-1968 and undated. Black-and-white images of United States Peace Corps administrators and staff, both at headquarters and in the field, as well as images of volunteers working at their duty stations abroad. Photographers include Rowland Scherman, Paul Conklin and Abbie Rowe.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-388-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (center, at microphone) meets with Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) representatives from Latin America in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.; President Kennedy delivered remarks for the occasion. Standing behind the President, from left to right: U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Teodoro Moscoso; Argenil Plazas García of Colombia; Francisco Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; unidentified; Alicia Navarro of Chile; four unidentified; Chairman of the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda; and Secretary General of the OAS, Dr. José Mora. The eight representatives who met with the President are: Fadrique Muñoz of Bolivia; Mr. Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; Ralfo Rezende Decourt of Brazil; Ms. Navarro of Chile; Mr. Plazas García of Colombia; Fernando Fernández Tapia of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Menandro Alcibíades Canelo of El Salvador; and Filiberto Antonio Trujillo of El Salvador.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-388-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center right, at microphone) delivers remarks to Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) representatives from Latin America in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Standing behind the President, from left to right: U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Teodoro Moscoso; Argenil Plazas García of Colombia; Francisco Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; unidentified; Alicia Navarro of Chile; four unidentified; Chairman of the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda; and Secretary General of the OAS, Dr. José Mora. The eight representatives who met with the President are: Fadrique Muñoz of Bolivia; Mr. Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; Ralfo Rezende Decourt of Brazil; Ms. Navarro of Chile; Mr. Plazas García of Colombia; Fernando Fernández Tapia of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Menandro Alcibíades Canelo of El Salvador; and Filiberto Antonio Trujillo of El Salvador.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8079-F
President John F. Kennedy (center right) visits with Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) representatives from Latin America in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: unidentified (in back); U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Teodoro Moscoso (in profile); Argenil Plazas García of Colombia; two unidentified (one mostly hidden behind Mr. Plazas García); President Kennedy; Chairman of the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda (hidden behind the President); and Secretary General of the OAS, Dr. José Mora. The eight representatives who met with the President are: Fadrique Muñoz of Bolivia; Francisco Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; Ralfo Rezende Decourt of Brazil; Alicia Navarro of Chile; Mr. Plazas García of Colombia; Fernando Fernández Tapia of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Menandro Alcibíades Canelo of El Salvador; and Filiberto Antonio Trujillo of El Salvador.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8079-D
President John F. Kennedy (center, at microphone) meets with Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) representatives from Latin America in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C.; President Kennedy delivered remarks for the occasion. Left to right: Francisco Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; unidentified; Alicia Navarro of Chile; two unidentified; President Kennedy; two unidentified (one mostly hidden behind the President); Chairman of the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda; and Secretary General of the OAS, Dr. José Mora. The eight representatives who met with the President are: Fadrique Muñoz of Bolivia; Mr. Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; Ralfo Rezende Decourt of Brazil; Ms. Navarro of Chile; Argenil Plazas García of Colombia; Fernando Fernández Tapia of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Menandro Alcibíades Canelo of El Salvador; and Filiberto Antonio Trujillo of El Salvador.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8079-C
President John F. Kennedy (center right) visits with Alliance for Progress (La Alianza para el Progreso) representatives from Latin America in the Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: three unidentified; Argenil Plazas García of Colombia; U.S. Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, Teodoro Moscoso (back to camera); unidentified (in back); President Kennedy; and two unidentified. The eight representatives who met with the President are: Fadrique Muñoz of Bolivia; Francisco Calazans Fernandes of Brazil; Ralfo Rezende Decourt of Brazil; Alicia Navarro of Chile; Mr. Plazas García of Colombia; Fernando Fernández Tapia of the Dominican Republic; Dr. Menandro Alcibíades Canelo of El Salvador; and Filiberto Antonio Trujillo of El Salvador.
Collection
LGPP
Papers, 1931-2007. Educator, economist, diplomat, government official. Member, John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Immediate Latin American Problems (1960); Ambassador to Brazil (1961-1966); Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1966-1967). Records from his service in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; his teaching career at Harvard Business School; his World War II era work at the War Production Board, the Economic Cooperation Administration, and the Mutual Security Agency; his presidency of Johns Hopkins University; and his research projects as a scholar at several non-profit think tanks such as the Brookings Institution.