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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-18B-3
Sound recording of a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. They discuss administering the State Department and making staff changes at the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They also discuss conferring with Carl Kaysen on a plan to assist Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique’s effort to gain independence.The beginning of the recording is garbled. Machine noise follows the conversation.
Transcript included. This sound recording was originally recorded on Dictation Belt 18B, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. To hear all of the recordings on the Dictation Belt, see Digital Identifier: JFKPOF-TPH-18B, Title: Telephone recordings: Dictation Belt 18B.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-TPH-18B
Dictation Belt 18B contains three sound recordings. The recording of the conversation in item 18B.1 begins on Dictation Belt 18A.7. This is a sound recording of part of a telephone conversation held on May 7, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Representative Edith S. Green of Oregon. They complete their discussion about legislative strategy on an education bill and dealing with the National Education Association of the United States. Item 18B.2 is a telephone conversation held on May 8, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk. They discuss a strategy for the State Department to deal with an unidentified issue at the United Nations (U.N.). The recording begins in mid-conversation. Machine noise follows the conversation. Item 18B.3 is a telephone conversation between President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. They discuss administering the State Department and making staff changes at the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). They also discuss conferring with Carl Kaysen on a plan to assist Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique’s effort to gain independence. The beginning of the recording is garbled. Machine noise follows the conversation.Transcript included. Each item listed above is also available individually as an excerpt derived from this full-length digitized recording. See Related Records for more information.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-081-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice, and consists of the 1963 report for the Defense Production Act of 1950 submitted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-081-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice, and consists of the 1962 report for the Defense Production Act of 1950 submitted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-081-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice, and consists of the 1961 report for the Defense Production Act of 1950 submitted by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080a-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include civil rights and the Senate, Irving Davidson, the Progressive Labor movement, the Otepka case, the government claim against Hanna Coal and Ore Company, student travels to Cuba, and made lands (mud lumps) off the coast of Louisiana.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-053-009
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include a press release concerning agriculture, summaries of Senate legislative activities, overviews of legislative items recommended by the President, reports on the legislative efforts of individual government agencies, and a letter from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to Secretary of State Dean Rush concerning American exports to the Soviet Union. Memoranda from Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen and Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien concerning individual congressmen and pieces of legislation are found throughout. Topics include education, agriculture, tax reform, civil rights, foreign aid, and veterans' pensions. The folder was originally titled "10/63 Military pay, Veterans pensions, Wheat, CIA."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080a-002
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice, and consists of a report by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on the renewal of the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080a-001
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Materials include a letter to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy from United States Ambassador to Australia William C. Battle, background information on civil rights for a meeting between the President and clergymen, and a summary of progress towards the voluntary desegregation of commercial establishments. Of note is a summary of a meeting between Kennedy and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoliy Dobrynin where Dobrynin gave Kennedy a talking paper for President Kennedy from Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-020
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include organized crime, progress in civil rights, various legislative issues, Indian (Indians of North America) claims litigation, and a proposal by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for meetings to discuss Cuba and South America. Also included in this folder are survey results from a poll of various colleges as to their interest in a National Service Corps.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-019
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include the Civil Investigation Demand legislation, the lawsuit United States v. Aluminum Company of America and Rome Cable Corporation, the arrest of former President of Venezuela Marcos Perez-Jimenez, and the graduation ceremony of the 70th Session of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) National Academy. Of note are letters to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy from Philip L. Graham and Spanish Ambassador Antonio Garrigues. Also included in this folder is the program for the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony, a booklet titled, "The Story of the FBI National Academy," and the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin for January 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-018
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include steel price increases, winners of the Young American Medals for 1960, the Billie Sol Estes case, P. Lorillard Tobacco Company and employment discrimination, and judicial nominations for Federal courts. Of note is a copy of a letter from Jack Paar to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-016
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include organized crime, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s meeting with Chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer, Guatemala, and William H. Hastie. Of note is a transcript in German of a press conference held by Kennedy for German journalists and Kennedy’s answers translated. Also included in this folder is a draft of a magazine article written by Kennedy detailing his trip to Indonesia. This folder contains some foreign language material.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-015
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Materials consist of a letter to the President from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in response to the President's request for Kennedy's opinion of the presidential inability clause for the Constitution.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Department of Justice. Topics include numerous legislation issues, Federal loans to parochial schools, the appointment of Federal judges, steel prices, establishment of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, possible leaks of classified information, and the Volta River project. Of note is correspondence between the President and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations J. Edgar Hoover. Also included in this folder are numerous memoranda for the President from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.