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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-15-G
AR11, KN07
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.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-08
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] Cabinet and appointing the various secretaries; problems in and JFK’s wariness of the Department of State; the ideal State Department organization; problems with Dean Rusk; Maxwell D. Taylor’s Cuba investigation; the Bay of Pigs and its effect on U.S. action in Laos; John McCone’s prediction of missiles in Cuba; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and foreign policy; JFK’s vice-presidential choice at the 1960 Democratic National Convention; Johnson’s hesitant acceptance of the vice-presidential slot; RFK’s appointment as Attorney General; RFK’s involvement in staffing the White House for JFK and other presidential appointments; Lord Harlech (William David Ormsby-Gore); and State Department staff, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-04
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses American aid to Argentina; American, British, and French involvement in Africa; the 1962 executive order about segregation in federally-funded housing; appointing African-American judges; changes John F. Kennedy [JFK] was contemplating in the Alliance for Progress; the Dominican crisis; the wheat sale to the Soviet Union; the Bobby Baker case; preparing for JFK’s 1964 campaign; RFK’s return to work after JFK’s assassination and disagreements among the Cabinet members and under President Lyndon B. Johnson; changes in White House staff and the Democratic Party; RFK’s political plans for after 1964; and JFK’s opinions of his staff and appointees, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-01
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses beginning John F. Kennedy's [JFK] presidential Administration with no political obligations; carefully picking Cabinet members, specifically Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury; RFK’s decision on what role to play in JFK’s Administration; JFK’s unhappiness with Dean Rusk as Secretary of State; JFK’s advisers and other presidential appointments; Cabinet meetings; Department of Justice organization under RFK; the first 100 days of the Kennedy Administration; the role of the Vice President, according to RFK; JFK’s relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson and why JFK put Johnson on the ticket in 1960; what JFK was most concerned with as President; domestic programs versus foreign affairs in the Kennedy Administration; Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.’s role during JFK’s presidency; the Bay of Pigs, the aftermath, and its effect on JFK; how JFK approached problems as President; dealing with Georgi Bolshakov; negotiating with the Soviet Union in Vienna, over Laos and Cuba, etc.; JFK’s relationship with foreign heads of state; State Department staff and U.S. Ambassadors; the military coup in Vietnam; the Berlin crisis of the summer of 1961 and the Berlin Wall; RFK’s 1961 trip to the Ivory Coast; and Soviet and American nuclear testing, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-02-28-D
AR17
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18828
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18825
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18824
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6786-A
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17157
Reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps, White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, descend the Grand Staircase to the Entrance Hall. Behind them (L-R) are Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President General Godfrey McHugh; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr. (partially hidden); Dean Rusk's wife Virginia Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17155-B
Reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps, White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, descend the Grand Staircase to the Entrance Hall. Behind them (L-R) are Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of State Dean Rusk and wife Virginia Rusk; Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr.; Air Force Aide to the President General Godfrey McHugh.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17155-A
Reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps, White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy descend the Grand Staircase to the Entrance Hall. Behind them (L-R) are Military Aide to the President Chester V. Clifton; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of State Dean Rusk (partially hidden); Lady Bird Johnson; Dean Rusk's wife Virginia Rusk; Naval Aide to the President Tazewell Shepard, Jr.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18827
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17158
Reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps, White House, Washington, D.C. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, descend the Grand Staircase to the Entrance Hall. Behind them (L-R) are Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton (partially hidden); Air Force Aide to the President General Godfrey McHugh (partially hidden); Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr.; Dean Rusk's wife Virginia Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6786-B
Guests at the luncheon in honor of Western foreign ministers stand in the Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano of Germany; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville of France; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; British Minister for Foreign Affairs and Earl of Home Alec Douglas-Home; Secretary of State Dean Rusk.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7074-A
Meeting following Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's trip to Asia and Europe, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair).