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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.
Collection
WKLPP
Papers, 1925-1996. Diplomat, government official. Foreign Service Officer, State Department (1944-65, 1969-71); deputy Chief of Mission, Tokyo, Japan (1959-62); Ambassador to Tanganyika (later Tanzania) (1962-65); Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1969-72); Special Assistant to the President, National Security Council Planning board (1966-68); Deputy Commandant for International Affairs, National War College (1971-75); Vice President, National Defense University and adviser to the Department of State (1977-79); Chairman, Senior Intelligence Review Panel, Central Intelligence Agency (1979) Appointment diaries, personal journals, business and personal correspondence, subject files, speeches, publications, news clippings, photographs, financial papers relating to his foreign service. Includes extensive materials related to his interest in Asian art and his career as a college lecturer.