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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-03
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1962 steel crisis; some major issues and accomplishments of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] presidency; choosing the U.S. Ambassador to Russia; foreign aid and treaties; the military coup in Peru; the space race during the Kennedy Administration; the 1962 congressional and gubernatorial campaigns; JFK’s dinner for the Nobel Prize winners; the Polaris submarines; problems with the New York Herald Tribune; New York politics; various pieces of federal legislation, 1961–1963; the Dominican Republic; Department of Justice investigations under RFK; the difficulties of being Attorney General; congressional issues in early 1963; the Vietnam War escalation in 1963; American support of the coup in Vietnam; Henry Cabot Lodge as the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; the prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion; American actions in Cuba; unemployment and civil rights; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin; JFK’s trips to the South and speeches on civil rights; the nuclear test ban treaty; and JFK’s trip to Ireland and Rome, among other issues.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-112-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Brazil. Materials concern Brazil's financial situation, the political situation with the resignation of President Jânio Quadros, and the presentation of credentials by Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Roberto de Oliveira Campos.
Collection
LGPP
Papers, 1931-2007. Educator, economist, diplomat, government official. Member, John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Immediate Latin American Problems (1960); Ambassador to Brazil (1961-1966); Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1966-1967). Records from his service in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; his teaching career at Harvard Business School; his World War II era work at the War Production Board, the Economic Cooperation Administration, and the Mutual Security Agency; his presidency of Johns Hopkins University; and his research projects as a scholar at several non-profit think tanks such as the Brookings Institution.