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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-091-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the U.S. Information Agency (USIA). Topics include a possible luncheon or dinner with leaders of the motion picture industry, foreign reaction to the Telstar communications satellite, surveys of West European opinions of the U.S., and the ability for the U.S. to telecast programs into Cuba. Also included in this folder are reports by USIA titled, "Media Comment in the Mississippi Crisis," and, "The Impact of President Kennedy's Visit to Mexico."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-069a-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the United States Army. Materials include correspondence between the President and the parents of a deceased Vietnam soldier, and the re-routing of calls from the White House National Board to the Signal Board when the President calls the Army War Room. Of note is a telegram from Fred L. Shuttlesworth to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy detailing the violence occurring in Birmingham, Alabama by state troopers.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-020
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to the President for Civil Rights, and primarily concern the Peace Corps and civil rights issues. Of note is Wofford's resignation as Special Assistant for Civil Rights in order to accept a Peace Corps position as Special Representative in Africa at large and director of the program in Ethiopia.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-019
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Harris Wofford, Special Assistant to the President for Civil Rights, and primarily concern civil rights issues. Of note is a news report by Howard K. Smith for CBS News regarding civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-067-005
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Robert Troutman, Chairman of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Materials concern the Plans for Progress program, including a one year progress report, and charts depicting Negro (African American) metropolitan populations and employment of non-whites in various fields. Of note is Troutman’s resignation letter and an explanation for his resignation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-066a-010
This folder contains memoranda between the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, and Ted Sorensen, Special Counsel to the President. Topics include the administration's relationship with business; solutions to civil rights issues in Birmingham, Alabama; foreign trade; apportionment of the 1964 Democratic National Convention; and the Department of State. Of note is a program for The Democratic Party of Cook County Reception and Dinner.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-050-013
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 press releases concerning legislation and an overview of legislative items recommended by the President. Of note is a letter from Secretary of the Treasuries C. Douglas Dillon to Howard W. Smith, chairman of the Committee on Rules; a staff report on the proposed merger of Eastern Airlines and American Airlines; a report outlining the pros and cons on taking a strong, active campaign to stand firm and block wheat legislation, and a memo concerning civil rights and the steps that should be taken in order for legislation to pass. This folder was originally titled "Taxation, aviation, unemployment compensation, civil rights, pensions committee on federal credit programs."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-050-003
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 memorandum regarding the 1961-1962 civil rights legislation, as well as the activities of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee. This folder was originally titled "November 1961, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Civil rights."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-049-006
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 "Legislative Notes" and other data prepared by Legislative Research; reports on legislative progress from Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien; and a letter from Illinois Congressman Charles Melvin Price concerning the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program. Also included are materials regarding civil rights legislation and foreign aid, including a proposed amendment to the Foreign Aid Act. This folder was originally titled "March 1961:18-30, Aircraft nuclear propulsion, sugar, feed grains, minimum wage, civil rights, area redevelopment, social security."
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-061-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, for the President's News Conference of October 31, 1963 (News Conference 63). During this press conference President Kennedy answered questions from the press on a variety of topics including troop reductions in Europe and Vietnam, the resignation of Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth, civil rights, and the 1964 Presidential race. Background materials in this folder include briefing papers for the President on domestic and foreign affairs and national security, memorandums, department and agency reports, and newspaper clippings. The official White House transcript of the press conference and the stenotype transcript of the press conference are also included.
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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-079-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the General Services Administration (GSA). Topics include the purchase of Morgantown Ordnance Works by Deuterium Corporation; nondiscrimination in employment (Executive Order 10925); Mitchel Air Force Base and the distribution of its land; and plans for Federal Government office space in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-088-006
Sound recording of a meeting held on May 21, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission John Macy, and the following members of the President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing: Chief Benefits Director for the Veterans Administration’s Department of Veterans Benefits Cyril F. Brickfield, Philip Brownstein of Farmers Home Administration, Jack Conway of the Industrial Union Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), John Dervan of the Veteran’s Administration, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Administration William Driver, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veteran’s Administration John S. Gleason, Floyd Micree of Farmers Home Administration, Theodore Jones of the Supreme Life Insurance Co; Advisor Ferdinand Kramer, Joseph McMurray of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Cyril Magnin, Assistant Attorney General from the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall, Associate Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Administration A.H. Monk, John Nolan from the Department of Justice, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense John J. Reed, Joseph Robertson from the Department of Agriculture, Advisor Roland Sawyer, William Seabron from the Department of Agriculture, Milton Semer from the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Simon Trevas from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Robert Weaver from the Housing and Home Finance Agency, Advisor Lewis Weinstein, Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury Robert A. Wallace, and Special Assistant to the President David L. Lawrence. The meeting centers on Robert Kennedy and John Macy’s report to the President’s Commission on Equal Opportunity in Housing and to the President. The report concerned civil rights issues in Birmingham, Alabama, and federal involvement in the area. Mr. Macy also reports in detail the number of minority federal employees in the Alabama area, and there is discussion of how to increase this number. Please note that the recording of this meeting was previously made available in the Civil Rights 1963 release in the 1980s. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 88, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 88 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-087-002
Sound recording of a meeting between President John F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy, and the founder of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe Jean Monnet. The discussion provides the President with an informal view, from the European side, of the multilateral force negotiations with Europe and the overall relations between the United States and its Western allies. The President’s upcoming trip to Europe is also discussed. Partway through the meeting the President takes a telephone call about civil rights issues in Alabama. Only President Kennedy’s side of the telephone conversation is recorded on this tape. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 87, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 87 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-085-002
Sound recording of a meeting held on May 4, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and his guests, twenty members of the organization Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) present for a lobbying session. The President takes the opportunity to pitch the successes of his administration’s legislative agenda to this liberal action group that on occasion had been critical of some of the moves of his administration. Earlier that day the New York Times ran an Associated Press photograph by Bill Hudson of a police dog lunging at a civil rights protester in Birmingham, Alabama. The President comments on the shock of the photograph at several points during the meeting and states with frustration, “I mean what law can you pass to do anything about police power in the community of Birmingham? There is nothing we can do… The fact of the matter is that Birmingham is in worse shape than any other city in the United States and it’s been that way for a year and a half… I think it’s terrible the picture in the paper. The fact of the matter that’s just what (Bull) Connor wants. And ah, as I say, Birmingham is the worst city in the south. They have done nothing for the Negroes in that community, so it is an intolerable situation, that there is no argument about.” The President goes on to pointedly comment that in a recent meeting with a newspaperman, the reporter commented, "‘Isn’t it outrageous in Birmingham’ and I said, 'Why are you over there eating at the Metropolitan Club every day? You talk about Birmingham and you’re up there at the Metropolitan Club … they wouldn’t even let Negro ambassadors in.’ So now he (the reporter) said, ‘Well we want to work from the inside,’ and I said, ‘Well your one contribution is that now they won’t let white ambassadors in.’ (laughter) Most of your novelists that you read every day… they’re all over there at the Metropolitan Club… so I think that we have worked hard on civil rights. I think it is a national crisis." This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 85, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 85 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-118-002
Sound recording of a meeting on civil rights legislation held on October 29, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Deputy Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Representative Emanuel Celler (New York); Minority Leader, Representative Charles Halleck (Indiana); Representative William McCulloch (Ohio); Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John McCormack (Massachusetts); Representative Leslie Arends (Illinois); Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall; and Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma). They discuss counting votes for the civil rights legislation, legislative procedure, a press statement, and the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC). This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 118/A54, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 118/A54 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-117-001
Sound recording of part of a meeting on civil rights legislation held on October 23, 1963. The recording of this meeting begins on Tape 116. Topics related to civil rights legislation include compromises, predicting votes, parliamentary problems, timing, public accommodations, the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), a voting question and the electoral college, plans for upcoming meetings, a press statement, action in committee, and strategy with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Participants include President John F. Kennedy; Vice President Johnson; Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach; Representative Emanuel Celler (New York); Minority Leader, Representative Charles Halleck (Indiana); Representative William McCulloch (Ohio); Speaker of the House of Representatives John McCormack (Massachusetts); and Representative Leslie Arends (Illinois). Please note that this meeting was opened for research use in July of 1984. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 117/A53, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 117/A53 in its entirety or the beginning of this recording on Tape 116/A52.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-116-003
Sound recording of three meeting. First is a meeting held on October 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Presidential Advisor on Foreign Affairs Dean Acheson. For most of the meeting, Acheson discusses the political climate in Europe, especially in Germany. President Kennedy speaks mainly near the end of the meeting.Next are two brief meetings on civil rights held on October 24, 1963. These consecutive meetings concern the timing of civil rights legislation and discussions with leaders in the House of Representatives on the bill and amendments. Participants include President Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations Lawrence F. O’Brien, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives John McCormack (Massachusetts), Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Representative Emanuel Celler (New York), Representative William McCulloch (Ohio), Representative Carl Albert (Oklahoma), Representative Charles Halleck (Indiana), and Representative Leslie Arends (Illinois). Please note that these meetings were opened in 1984 as part of the Kennedy Library’s Civil Rights tape opening. The recording of the second meeting ends abruptly and continues on Tape 117/A53.
This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 116/A52, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 116/A52 in its entirety or the end of this recording on Tape 117/A53.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-113-002
Sound recording of a meeting held on September 30, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and former President of the National Council of Churches Eugene Carson Blake. They discuss Mr. Blake’s recent meeting with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the civil rights situation and support in Congress for upcoming civil rights bills. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 113, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 113 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-113-001
Sound recording of part of a meeting held on September 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and several city leaders from Birmingham, Alabama, including Dr. Landon Miller, W.C. Hamilton, Caldwell Marks, Frank Newton, and Don Hawkinson. The recording of this meeting begins on Tape 112. They discuss civil rights issues in Birmingham. After this meeting, and on several other portions of this tape, the recording machine was left on and there is over an hour’s worth of recorded office noises, hallway conversations, and partial conversations with little or no substance. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 113, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 113 in its entirety or the beginning of this recording on Tape 112. Please note that this meeting was previously made available for review in 1984.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-112-003
Sound recording of three meetings. The first is a Cabinet meeting held on September 23, 1963, during which members of several departments brief President John F. Kennedy and each other on topics of particular interest, including private wheat sales to the Soviet Union and relevant political issues, Secretary McNamara and General Taylor's mission to South Vietnam, federal employment, and the economic outlook heading into 1964. Meeting participants include President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara; Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; Acting Secretary of State George Ball; Herbert Miller for the Attorney General; Acting Postmaster General Sidney Bishop; Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall; Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman; Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges; Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz; Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Anthony Celebrezze; Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Special Assistant to the President Timothy J. ("Ted") Reardon; Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy; and Special Counsel to the President Ted Sorensen.Second is a brief meeting on civil rights held on September 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall. One segment of this recording totaling 16 seconds has been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 13526.
Third is part of a meeting held on September 23, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and several city leaders from Birmingham, Alabama, including Dr. Landon Miller, W.C. Hamilton, Caldwell Marks, Frank Newton, and Don Hawkins. They discuss civil rights issues in Birmingham. The recording of this meeting ends abruptly and continues on Tape 113. Please note that this meeting was previously made available for review in 1984.
This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 112, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding this one. See Related Records to access Tape 112 in its entirety or the remainder of recording of the third meeting on Tape 113.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-112-001
Sound recording of part of a meeting held on September 19, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Reverend Shuttlesworth; Reverent Abernathy; Dr. Lucius Pitts; Dr. A.G. Gaston; Reverend J.L. Ware; and Bishop Murchison. The recording of this meeting begins on Tape 111. President Kennedy has a discussion with the civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Please note that this meeting was previously made available for review in 1984. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 112, which contains additional sound recording(s) following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 112 in its entirety or the beginning of this recording on Tape 111.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-086-002
Sound recording a meeting held on May 12, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Burke Marshall, and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. President Kennedy and his staff discuss civil rights and the situation in Birmingham, Alabama, before the President addresses the nation later that evening. This meeting was originally opened to public use in the 1980s. The meeting begins with a short section on Cuba, which was not included in the original release. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 86, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 86 in its entirety.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-MTG-108-002
Sound recording of a meeting held on August 28, 1963, between President John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights Leaders: Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Whitney Young, Floyd McKissick, Eugene Carson Blake, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and other unidentified participants. Wilkins, Randolph, and the other civil rights leaders initially report to President Kennedy on the March on Washington, but then turn the conversation to the pending civil rights legislation in Congress and the need for action to ensure equality. President Kennedy reviews a head count of votes in Congress on the administration's bill and legislative strategy. Martin Luther King speaks briefly. Randolph calls for a crusade with President Kennedy as its leader. Vice President Johnson explains the realities of political power in relation to Congress--how to craft a coalition of support, pressure on business leaders, approaches to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, etc. There is also a discussion of the right of African Americans in the military to demonstrate. At the end of the meeting, there is a coordination of statements on the completion of the meeting and President Kennedy reads the statement he intends to release. Please note that this Civil Rights Meeting recording was opened to research use in July of 1984. This sound recording has been excerpted from Tape 108, which contains additional sound recording(s) preceding and following this one. See Related Records to access Tape 108 in its entirety.