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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-05
In this interview Komer discusses working with McGeorge Bundy; the “inner circle” of the Bundy State Department; Komer’s major contacts; the intelligence system; the power and responsibilities of the State Department; how Bundy screened what President John F. Kennedy [JFK] would see; relations with other key officials; Robert F. Kennedy and foreign policy issues; the Bundy State Department and White House staff; the “little State Department” in the White House; the bureaucratic role of the State Department; U.S. foreign policy in Asia; relations with key U.S. Ambassadors; handling Arab-Israeli issues; domestic pressures of American-Jewish community on JFK; Arabists in the Kennedy Administration; working with Myer Feldman on Israeli issues; the United States, Saudi Arabia, and oil; filling the power vacuum left by the British; dealing with Congress on foreign aid matters; counterinsurgency; and looking back at programs during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Collection
TCSPP
Papers 1932-2004. Lawyer. Member, John F. Kennedy's Senate staff (1952-1960); Special Counsel to the President (1961-1964); speechwriter; author, "Decision-making in the White House" (1963), "Kennedy" (1965), "The Kennedy Legacy" (1969), "Let the Word Go Forth" (1988). Correspondence, White House files, legislative files, subject files, speech files, draft book manuscripts, personal papers, and campaign and political files.