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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-22-H
KN40
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.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-01
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses beginning John F. Kennedy's [JFK] presidential Administration with no political obligations; carefully picking Cabinet members, specifically Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury; RFK’s decision on what role to play in JFK’s Administration; JFK’s unhappiness with Dean Rusk as Secretary of State; JFK’s advisers and other presidential appointments; Cabinet meetings; Department of Justice organization under RFK; the first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration; the role of the Vice President, according to RFK; JFK’s relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson and why JFK put Johnson on the ticket in 1960; what JFK was most concerned with as President; domestic programs versus foreign affairs in the Kennedy Administration; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s role during JFK’s presidency; the Bay of Pigs, the aftermath, and its effect on JFK; how JFK approached problems as President; dealing with Georgi Bolshakov; negotiating with the Soviet Union in Vienna, over Laos and Cuba, etc.; JFK’s relationship with foreign heads of state; State Department staff and U.S. Ambassadors; the military coup in Vietnam; the Berlin crisis of the summer of 1961 and the Berlin Wall; RFK’s 1961 trip to the Ivory Coast; and Soviet and American nuclear testing, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-06-12-A
AR38, ST25
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-29-A
ST15
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-03-09-C
AR17, KN13
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JHS-01
This interview focuses on John F. Kennedy (JFK)’s congressional career, the 1960 presidential election, and early policy decisions of the Kennedy administration, among other issues.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-25-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden behind Director Foster). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-18-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden), Under Secretary of State George Ball (partially hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy stands at far left; President Kennedy (looking down, with hands on table) and Secretary of State Dean Rusk stand at far right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-16-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone, Under Secretary of State George Ball (mostly hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy (mostly hidden behind Secretary Rusk), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (on far edge of frame) stand at right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-1-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Clockwise from top right side of table: Under Secretary of State George Ball, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson, Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy (mostly hidden), Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (mostly hidden), Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone (mostly hidden behind Director Foster). Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7203-B
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren. Others (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (behind Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (very back); Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa, wife of the Nicaraguan Ambassador; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (very back); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; unidentified woman (partially hidden); Presidential Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs, Chester B. Bowles; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard (in back); Dorothy Stebbins Bowles, wife of Mr. Bowles. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7089-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with advisors on disarmament in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. L-R (around table): Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John McCone; Chairman of the US Delegation to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Arthur Dean; Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), William C. Foster; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President Kennedy; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), General Lyman L. Lemnitzer. Protocol officer for the State Department, Clement E. "Clem" Conger, sits against wall in background. Along windows at right, L-R: unidentified; Assistant Secretary of State, Foy Kohler; Under Secretary of State, George Ball.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7970-J
President John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks at the presentation ceremony of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Standing to the right of President Kennedy (left to right): Chairman of the Distinguished Civilian Awards Board and Under Secretary of State, George Ball; member of the Awards Board and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; Executive Secretary of the Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. Standing in the background (left to right): award recipient and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, Dr. Alain C. Enthoven; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; award recipient and Deputy Commandant for Foreign Affairs of the National War College, Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown; award recipient and Associate Administrator of the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Sherman E. Johnson (in back, mostly hidden); unidentified; award recipient and Director of Air Traffic Service for the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), David D. Thomas; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (partially hidden); Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Leonard Carmichael (in back); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, W. Averell Harriman. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7970-H
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at the presentation ceremony of the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. Left to right: award recipient and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, Dr. Alain C. Enthoven; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (very back); award recipient and Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Dr. Fred L. Whipple; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Leonard Carmichael (in back); President Kennedy (at microphones); award recipient and Deputy Commandant for Foreign Affairs of the National War College, Ambassador Winthrop G. Brown; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; award recipient and Associate Administrator of the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, Dr. Sherman E. Johnson; member of the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric (in back); Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), Najeeb Halaby; award recipient and Director of Air Traffic Service for the FAA, David D. Thomas; Chairman of the Awards Board and Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Executive Secretary of the Awards Board and Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, John W. Macy, Jr. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-30611
President Lyndon B. Johnson (center left) walks across the South Lawn upon arrival aboard a United States Army helicopter from Dallas, Texas, via Andrews Air Force Base. Walking with President Johnson: Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the Peace Corps, Bill Moyers; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Secret Service agents, Rufus Youngblood and James J. Rowley; Special Assistant to the President for National Security, McGeorge Bundy. White House, Washington, D.C. [Lighting variations in image are original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-30610
President Lyndon B. Johnson (center) speaks with Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, upon arrival on the South Lawn aboard a United States Army helicopter from Dallas, Texas, via Andrews Air Force Base. Also pictured: First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Secret Service agents, Floyd Boring, Rufus Youngblood, and James J. Rowley. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-30609
President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson (both in center) speak with Secret Service agent, Rufus Youngblood, upon arrival on the South Lawn from Dallas, Texas, via Andrews Air Force Base. Those exiting United States Army helicopter include: Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Special Assistant to the President for National Security, McGeorge Bundy; White House Secret Service agent, Floyd Boring. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21466
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren. Others (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (behind Vice President Johnson, face partially hidden); Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (behind Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa, wife of the Nicaraguan Ambassador (in front); Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh (head turned, partially hidden); Presidential Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs, Chester B. Bowles; Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Dorothy Stebbins Bowles, wife of Mr. Bowles. Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21465
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren. Others (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (behind Vice President Johnson, face partially hidden); Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (behind Ambassador Sevilla-Sacasa); Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa, wife of the Nicaraguan Ambassador; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (behind Mrs. Sevilla-Sacasa); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Presidential Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs, Chester B. Bowles; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard (in back); Dorothy Stebbins Bowles, wife of Mr. Bowles (face obscured). Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21464
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others attend a diplomatic reception at the White House. Front row (L-R): President Kennedy; Mrs. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren; Nina Warren, wife of Chief Justice Warren. Others (L-R): Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (behind and left of Vice President Johnson); Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (face obscured); Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa, wife of the Nicaraguan Ambassador; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (behind Mrs. Sevilla-Sacasa); Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Presidential Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin-American Affairs, Chester B. Bowles; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard (in back); Dorothy Stebbins Bowles, wife of Mr. Bowles (mostly hidden). Grand Staircase, Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20394
President John F. Kennedy meets with advisors on disarmament in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. L-R: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John McCone; Chairman of the US Delegation to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, Arthur Dean; Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), William C. Foster; Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President Kennedy; Under Secretary of State, George Ball (behind the President).