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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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-15-A
AR28, KN24
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7540-E
Prime Minister of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella (at microphones), delivers remarks during an arrival ceremony in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (left to right): President John F. Kennedy; Prime Minister Ben Bella; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria, Mohammed Khemisti (in back, partially hidden); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Algerian Minister of Habous, Tewfik El Madani; U.S. Department of State interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn (in foreground); Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup (in back, partially hidden). Military honor guard troops stand at left in the background. South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.