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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-242-006
This folder contains telegrams from Department of State officials, including United States Ambassador to Brazil Lincoln Gordon, regarding proposed trips to Brazil in July and November 1962 by President John F. Kennedy and subsequent postponements. Topics include a schedule for the advance security and planning teams; suggested itineraries for President Kennedy; staff designations for coordination between the White House and Brazil; and the form of scope, talking, position, and background papers in preparation for the President’s trip. Also included in this folder is a press release of an exchange of letters between President Kennedy and President of Brazil João Goulart regarding the postponement of the November 1962 trip due to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-242-005
This folder contains telegrams from Department of State officials, including United States Ambassador to Brazil Lincoln Gordon, regarding a proposed trip to Brazil by President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent postponement due to political unrest in the country. Topics include suggested itineraries, including stops in the cities of São Paulo, Recife, Natal, and Brasilia; meetings between President Kennedy and President of Brazil João Goulart; and potential security issues. Also included in this folder is a draft statement announcing the postponement and a memorandum to President Kennedy from White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger regarding Salinger’s trip to Brazil and meeting with President Goulart.