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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-1962-04-04-E
AR18, KN14
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-112-007
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Brazil. Materials include a thank you letter to President Kennedy from Agmar C. Lobo, wife of OAS (Organization of American States) Ambassador Fernando Lobo; numerous newspaper clippings from Brazilian newspapers regarding the illness of Ambassador Lobo and his return to Brazil; and a congratulatory telegram from President Kennedy to the new President of Brazil João Goulart. This folder contains some foreign language material.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-139a-009
This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the incoming and outgoing messages that passed through the White House communications center. Topics include the activities of the Inter-American Press Association and President Kennedy’s meeting with Brazilian President João Goulart.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-20876
South American reporters surround President John F. Kennedy (center) and President of Brazil João Goulart (hidden) in the Fish Room of the White House during a farewell visit. Deputy Chief of Protocol William J. Tonesk and U.S. State Department Interpreter José de Seabra (face obscured) stand by the doorway at far left; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Richard N. Goodwin (left of painting), U.S. State Department Interpreter Neil Seidenman (wearing glasses), and General Amaury Kruel, Head of the Military Household of President Goulart (partially hidden), stand behind and to the left of President Kennedy; Assistant Press Secretary Jay W. Gildner (lower left) stands in foreground. Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-20875
South American reporters surround President John F. Kennedy (left) and President of Brazil João Goulart (mostly hidden, left of President Kennedy) in the Fish Room of the White House during a farewell visit. Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas (in profile, wearing glasses) and General Amaury Kruel, Head of the Military Household of President Goulart, stand behind President Kennedy at far left; White House Secret Service agent Arthur “Art” Godfrey (in back, right of flag) stands at right. Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-20874
South American reporters surround President John F. Kennedy (center right, partially hidden) and President of Brazil João Goulart (left of President Kennedy, face obscured) in the Fish Room of the White House during a farewell visit. Those standing in back by the open doorway include (L-R): Brazilian Ambassador to Italy Hugo Gouthier, Deputy Chief of Protocol William J. Tonesk (in doorway at left), White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, U.S. State Department Interpreters, Neil Seidenman and José de Seabra, and White House Secret Service agent Arthur “Art” Godfrey (in doorway at right). Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-20873
South American reporters surround President John F. Kennedy (center) and President of Brazil João Goulart (mostly hidden, left of President Kennedy) in the Fish Room of the White House during a farewell visit. Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francisco Clementino San Tiago Dantas (in profile, wearing glasses) and General Amaury Kruel, Head of the Military Household of President Goulart (face obscured), stand behind President Kennedy at far left. Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-20872
South American reporters surround President John F. Kennedy (center) and President of Brazil João Goulart (hidden) in the Fish Room of the White House during a farewell visit. Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7144-N
President John F. Kennedy and President of Brazil João Goulart (right of President Kennedy) issue a joint statement to the press after their farewell visit. White House Secret Service agents Bill Payne (back left) and Arthur “Art” Godfrey stand on either side of President Kennedy; a group observes. West Entrance, White House, Washington, D.C.