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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-09
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] decision to enter politics right after WWII; JFK’s campaign for the House of Representatives and Kennedy family and supporters’ roles in it; JFK as a campaigner, strengths and weaknesses; traveling around the world with JFK in 1951 and meeting foreign leaders; JFK’s interest in foreign affairs while in Congress; JFK’s 1952 Senate campaign; the Massachusetts Democratic Party; Adlai E. Stevenson; Paul A. Dever; the tea parties for JFK’s campaigns; the organization of JFK’s 1952 campaign; and the 1956 Democratic National Convention and the question of the vice-presidential nomination, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JKJ-01
In this interview Javits discusses first meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] in 1946; working with JFK in the House of Representatives on housing and veterans issues and in the Senate on different pieces of legislation; the confrontation between Javits and JFK in the Senate on medicare; social interactions with Senator JFK; JFK’s occasional “offbeat position;” the 1960 presidential election; and JFK’s sense of humor, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-25-B
AR27, ST14
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-399-1-62
View of the Rose Garden during a visit of the Burros Club, an organization of male secretaries and assistants to Democratic members of Congress; President John F. Kennedy (right, at microphones) delivers remarks to the group. Standing behind President Kennedy (L-R): Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts). Also pictured: newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7486-C
President John F. Kennedy (left, at microphones) delivers remarks to members of the Burros Club, an organization of male secretaries and assistants to Democratic members of Congress, during a visit in the Rose Garden. Standing behind President Kennedy (L-R): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma (mostly hidden); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield (Montana). United Press International (UPI) photographer, James K. W. Atherton, stands at right. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7486-A
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks to members of the Burros Club, an organization of male secretaries and assistants to members of Congress, during a visit in the Rose Garden. Left to right: Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield (Montana); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana); President Kennedy (at microphones); Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Speaker of the House of Representatives, John W. McCormack (Massachusetts). White House, Washington, D.C.