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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-A
AR41, ST34, KN40
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-23-B
AR41, ST34, 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.
Sound recording
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-XXXA
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy dictating memoranda for the following staff members: Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Tom Walsh, Anne Lincoln, Andrew T. Hatcher, Deputy Special Counsel to the President Myer “Mike” Feldman, Special Assistant to the President Ralph A. Dungan, and Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner. President Kennedy also dictates a memorandum for his own files regarding reflections on recent events and issues.Occasionally the recording echoes and is noisy.
Transcript included.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-D
KN40
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-02-07-D
ST20
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-02-07-C
AR32, ST20, KN30
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-01-22-B
AR31, ST19, KN29
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF65-003
This folder contains draft responses written by the Council of Economic Advisers for correspondence that was referred from the White House. The draft letters are intended to be signed by the President or one of his Special Assistants, usually Ralph A. Dungan. The material is filed roughly in reverse chronological order according to the date of the draft reply.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-22-1-61
President John F. Kennedy poses with his staff in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Front Row: Assistant Special Counsel to the President Richard Goodwin; Secretary to Pierre Salinger Sue Mortensen Vogelsinger; Staff Assistant Dorothy McCann; Personal Secretary to the President Evelyn Lincoln; two unidentified; President Kennedy; one unidentified; Staff Assistant Pierrette Spiegler; two unidentified. (L-R) Back Row: Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Liaison and Personnel Lawrence O'Brien; Special Assistant to the President Kenneth P. O'Donnell (partially hidden); Special Counsel to the President Theodore Sorensen; Special Assistant to the President Frederick Dutton; Secretary to Sanford Fox Myra Boland; Secretarial Assistant Pauline Fluet; Staff Assistant Jean Louis; one unidentified; White House Secret Service Agent, John J. "Muggsy" O'Leary; three unidentified; Special Assistant to the President Ralph Dungan; one unidentified; Special Assistant to the President Ted Reardon.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C26200
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Dr. Carlos Manuel Muñiz (center right); Dr. Muñiz presents a gift of a vicuña poncho to President Kennedy. Also pictured: Ambassador of Argentina, Dr. Roberto T. Alemann; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan; White House Secret Service agent, Tony Sherman. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [See also MO 63.2494.2, “Poncho”]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C26199
President John F. Kennedy meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Dr. Carlos Manuel Muñiz (center right). Also pictured: Ambassador of Argentina, Dr. Roberto T. Alemann; U.S. State Department interpreter, Donald Barnes; Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan; White House Secret Service agent, Tony Sherman. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-85-2-63
President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with Governor-elect of Bahia, Brazil, Antônio Lomanto, Jr., during a visit in the Oval Office. Left to right: President Kennedy; U.S. State Department interpreter, Neil Seidenman; Governor-elect Lomanto; two unidentified men; Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan. Also listed in the President’s schedule: Marcelo Geden and George Alvares Macial. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-85-1-63
President John F. Kennedy visits with Governor-elect of Bahia, Brazil, Antônio Lomanto, Jr. In foreground (L-R): President Kennedy; Governor-elect Lomanto; U.S. State Department interpreter, Neil Seidenman; two unidentified men. Standing in background: White House Secret Service agent, Bob Lilley; Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan. Also listed in the President’s schedule: Marcelo Geden and George Alvares Macial. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Collection
JFKNSF
A subfile of the Presidential Papers of John F. Kennedy constituting the working files of McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. It is the primary foreign policy file of the Kennedy White House and consists of the following series: Countries, Regional Security Files, Trips and Conferences, Departments and Agencies, Subjects, Meetings and Memorandums, and staff files of Chester V. Clifton, Carl Kaysen, William H. Brubeck, Ralph Dungan, McGeorge Bundy, Robert W. Komer, Henry Kissinger, Charles Johnson, and Bromley K. Smith.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6295-G
Special Assistant to the President Ralph Dungan. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C422-12-63
Members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries attend graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; honor guard pallbearers fold the casket flag. Standing at right in foreground (partially hidden): Jacqueline Kennedy; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts). Also pictured: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Jean Kennedy Smith; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Director of the Peace Corps, R. Sargent Shriver; Peter Lawford; First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Lucy Baines Johnson; Lynda Bird Johnson; Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Cardinal Cushing; Vice President of Liberia, William R. Tolbert, Jr.; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; President of France, General Charles de Gaulle; President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal; President of South Korea, Chung Hee Park; Queen Frederika of Greece; King Baudouin of Belgium; Prince Bertil of Sweden; Secretary-General of the Presidency of France, Étienne Burin des Roziers; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of France, General Charles Ailleret; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Aram; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter W. Heller; former Social Secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy, Letitia Baldrige; Special Assistant to President Kennedy for Congressional Relations, Larry O’Brien; Special Assistant to President Kennedy, Ralph Dungan; Personal Secretary to President Kennedy, Evelyn Lincoln; White House doorman, Preston Bruce; Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, John C. Metzler; White House Secret Service agents, Paul A. Burns, Walt Coughlin, Toby Chandler, and Clint Hill. Pallbearers include: Lance Corporal Jerry J. Diamond (USMC), Yeoman George A. Barnum (USCG), Lieutenant Samuel R. Bird (U.S. Army), Seaman Hubert Clark (USN), Sergeant James L. Felder (U.S. Army), Lance Corporal Timothy F. Cheek (USMC), Sergeant Richard E. Gaudreau (USAF), Seaman Larry B. Smith (USN), and Corporal Douglas A. Mayfield (U.S. Army). Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C30734
Officials walk in the funeral procession of President John F. Kennedy to the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle. Those pictured include: Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John McCone; Special Assistants to President Kennedy, Larry O’Brien, Dave Powers, Kenneth P. O’Donnell, and Ralph Dungan; Special Counsel to President Kennedy, Theodore C. Sorensen. Mourners and members of the color guard line the North Lawn driveway. White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C415-5-63
Mourners observe as the late President John F. Kennedy lies in repose in the East Room of the White House. Those pictured include: Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger; Associate Press Secretary, Andrew T. Hatcher; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Special Assistants to President Kennedy, Ralph Dungan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Dave Powers, Kenneth P. O’Donnell, and Larry O’Brien; Assistant Special Counsel to President Kennedy, Richard N. Goodwin; Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; Hugh D. Auchincloss; White House butler, John W. Ficklin. Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C30344
President John F. Kennedy’s aides pose on the West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Appointment Secretary, Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Special Assistant for Science and Technology, Jerome B. Wiesner; Special Assistant for Congressional Relations and Personnel, Larry O’Brien; Economic Advisor, Kermit Gordon; Assistant Special Counsel, Lee C. White; Administrative Assistant, Timothy J. Reardon, Jr.; Advisor for National Capital Affairs, Charles A. Horsky; Deputy Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), Edward A. McDermott; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter W. Heller; Ralph A. Dungan; Military Aide, General Chester V. Clifton; Special Counsel, Theodore C. Sorensen; Director of Food for Peace, Richard W. Reuter; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Bromley Smith; Special Assistant for National Security, McGeorge Bundy.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7703-B
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, Daniel Oduber Quirós. Ambassador of Costa Rica, Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda, sits at far left. In background, Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan (center), and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (right), speak to an unidentified man. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7703-A
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, Daniel Oduber Quirós. Ambassador of Costa Rica, Gonzalo J. Facio Segreda, sits at far left. In background, Special Assistant to the President, Ralph Dungan (center), and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (right), speak to an unidentified man. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-336-6-62
President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) in the Oval Office; the visitors presented President Kennedy with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Members present include: National President of the NACWC, Dr. Rosa Gragg; Lucinda E. Bryant of Yakima, Washington; Fannye J. Benford of Gary, Indiana; Jean Murrell Capers of Cleveland, Ohio; Melnea Cass of Roxbury, Massachusetts; Jessie Mae David; Mabel E. Diggs of Boston, Massachusetts; Georgia Dungey of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Joyce Ford of Albany, New York; Ester Greenlee of Los Angeles, California; Mame Higgins; Carrie Pitts Hill of New York City; Chairman of the Elections Committee, Mae Jacobs (of Cleveland, Ohio); Bernice C. Lindsay of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Birdie Moore of Columbus, Ohio; Mamie Moore of Columbus, Ohio; Daisy Murrell of West Palm Beach, Florida; Myrtle Ollison of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Dr. Mamie B. Reese of Albany, Georgia; Willie L. Taylor of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Also pictured: Special Assistants to the President, Kenneth P. O’Donnell and Ralph Dungan; White House correspondent for United Press International (UPI), Helen Thomas; White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager. White House, Washington, D.C.
Collection
JFKWHSFRAD
White House Staff Files, 1955-1963. Government official; Special assistant to the President (1961-1964). Subject files, including correspondence, memorandums, reports relating to the Agency for International Development (AID), civil rights, and the Colorado River salinity question (Mexico).