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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-06
In this interview Komer discusses U.S. aid to India and Pakistan and some problems involved with it, including the question of long-term U.S. aid and a shift in focus from Pakistan to India; problems with the Agency for International Development; oil and U.S. policy; U.S. involvement in the Congo; Komer’s meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] and how Komer briefed him; the relations among JFK, Dean Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adlai E. Stevenson, and McGeorge Bundy; JFK’s interest in India and Pakistan and his attempt at a mediation between the two on Kashmir; and JFK and Algeria and Morocco, among other issues.
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-JDJ-01
In this interview Jernegan discusses John F. Kennedy’s 1957 speech on Algeria; working as the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; the transition between Administrations in the State Department, 1960; Abd al-Karim Qasim and Iraqi politics; Soviet involvement and influence in Iraq; the Kuwait problem; the Iraqi government and Israel; U.S. policy in regard to oil-bearing countries; oil company negotiations with foreign countries; U.S. foreign aid programs in Iraq; Yemen affairs in the State Department, 1963; Middle East affairs in the Kennedy Administration; changes in Jernegan’s long-range views for Near East problems, 1941–1969; and the influence of pro-Israel and pro-Arab groups on U.S. policy, among other issues.
Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-143-002
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks upon signing a contract between the Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to establish electrification projects in underdeveloped countries.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-01-A
AR29, ST15, KN25
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-041-022
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's remarks upon the signing of a contract between the Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to establish electrification projects in underdeveloped countries. The press copy also includes remarks from Fowler Hamilton, Administrator of the Agency for International Development, and Clyde T. Ellis, former Arkansas Senator and General Manager of the NRECA. Materials in this folder include a draft with handwritten notations by the President and a press copy of the speech.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7570-B
President John F. Kennedy and others witness the signing of a contract between the Agency for International Development (AID) and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) to assist in establishing rural electrification projects in Latin America and other developing countries. Seated at HMS Resolute Desk, left to right: unidentified stenographer (far left); Administrator of the AID, Fowler Hamilton; President of the NRECA, R. A. Yarborough (signing the contract); President Kennedy. Standing (left to right): Vice President of the NRECA, Albert C. "Al" Hauffe; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development and Conservation, John A. Baker; Acting U.S. Coordinator for the Alliance for Progress, Graham Martin; Assistant to the General Manager of NRECA, Jerry Anderson; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); member of the NRECA Executive Committee, T. W. Hunter; Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Norman M. Clapp (in back); member of the NRECA Executive Committee, Charles E. Wyckoff; General Manager of the NRECA, Clyde T. Ellis; Secretary-Treasurer of the NRECA, Paul H. Tidwell; member of the NRECA Executive Committee, J. L. Hubbard; member of the NRECA Executive Committee, Clark T. McWhorter; Secretary of Agriculture, Orville Freeman; staff economist for the NRECA, James E. Ross; Director of Management Services for the NRECA, Robert I. Kabat; unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.