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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-06-21-C
AR08, KN05
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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6659-K
Cruise aboard the “Honey Fitz.” (L-R) Interpreter James J. Wickel, Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President John F. Kennedy (holding a cigar), Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Zentaro Kosaka, and Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell T. Shepard. Potomac River, Washington, D. C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18167
President John F. Kennedy (standing to the left of the man holding crutches) and Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda return from a cruise on the yacht “Honey Fitz.” Also included in the photograph are Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell T. Shepard, Protocol officer for the State Department Clement E. "Clem" Conger, United Press International (UPI) photographer James K. W. Atherton, and various other photographers and news reporters. Hains Point, Potomac River, Washington, D.C.