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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-KGH-02
In this interview Heath discusses how she came to join the Office of Education; the leadership within the Office of Education and different ideas on how it should be run; other agencies within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare [HEW]; changes in the status and administration of HEW; various pieces of education legislation; the 1954 Supreme Court decision on separate but equal and segregation in schools; international education affairs; the reasons for pushing for general school aid over categorical aid; the 1955 White House conference on education; coalescing all the organizations within HEW into one voice for the Department; working with other Departments; the International Labor Organization and the United Nations; getting political support from the different presidential Administrations; the nationalization of the Suez Canal; the shift to considering social matters in a much broader context; the impact of the Sputnik launch on the Office of Education; and the National Defense Education Act, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-04-30-A
AR35, ST23
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-068a-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Agriculture. Materials include a statement on the 1960 emergency feed grain program and a memorandum by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman titled, "How American Agriculture Can Make its Maximum Contribution to the Foreign Aid Program."
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-235-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) visits with members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives, who were in Washington, D.C., for the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; unidentified; Executive Secretary of the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, Roy F. Hendrickson; Executive Vice President of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Kenneth D. Naden; Executive Director of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., Jerry Voorhis; President Kennedy; President of the American Institute of Cooperation, J. K. Stern; Secretary of the National Milk Producers Federation, E. M. Norton; and General Manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Clyde T. Ellis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-234-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (left, standing on steps) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the USA, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-234-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center right, back to camera) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the USA, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr., films in the background at right. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7858-A
President John F. Kennedy (left, standing on steps) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.