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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.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-160-001
This folder contains Department of State cables regarding relations between the United States and Spain including the renegotiation of U.S. military bases in Spain, U.S. economic and military assistance to Spain, and Spanish membership in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Also included in this folder is a memorandum by the Joint Chiefs of Staff titled, “Strategic Mission for the Spanish Armed Forces (U).”
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-298-001
This folder contains memoranda and reports concerning proposed changes to the Military Assistance Program (MAP), foreign aid, and support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).