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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-25-D
AR07, ST02
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-DEB-01
Bell compares the cabinet officers and White House staff during the Truman and Kennedy administrations, discusses the functions of the Budget Bureau and its operations during the Kennedy administration, and briefly discusses U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), 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.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RD-02
Donahue discusses recruiting talent for the John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration, working with the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, and JFK’s treatment of his staff and cabinet, among other issues.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-022
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of a proposed meeting agenda, summaries of activities and issues for the Cabinet departments, and handwritten notes and doodles by the President.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-021
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of notes on the economy, a meeting agenda, and handwritten notes and doodles by the President.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-020
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of a meeting agenda and handwritten notes and doodles by the President.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-019
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-018
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a meeting agenda and a list of attendees.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-017
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and includes a meeting agenda and a memorandum to the President concerning the 1964 budget.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-016
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of a meeting agenda, a talking paper for the meeting titled, "The Administration and Business," and handwritten notes and doodles by the President.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-015
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of a suggested meeting agenda, lists of priority and pending legislation, and a copy of the President's commencement address at Yale University.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-014
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials consist of a meeting agenda, a report to the President by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space, and the acquisition policies of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-013
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a proposed meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-012
This folder contains an Inter-Cabinet Briefing Book for Cabinet members collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. Materials consist of documents compiling the problems, issues, programs, and legislation for Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, H.E.W. (Health, Education, and Welfare), Interior, Justice, Labor, Post Office, State, and Treasury.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-011
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and includes a meeting agenda and a summary of the President's major legislative proposals.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-010
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Topics include the Federal budget, civilian employment in the executive branch, and the balance of payments. Also included in this folder is a statement by the President to Cabinet officers and agency heads on the 1962 and 1963 budget outlook.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-009
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-008
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-007
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a proposed meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-006
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and concerns the Federal budget and employment.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-005
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and consists of a proposed meeting agenda.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-004
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings, and includes the meeting agenda and a press release titled, "Program for Economic Recovery and Growth."
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-092-003
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, after Cabinet meetings. Materials include a document titled, "Introductory Note on the Foreign Scene," comments on the President's Science Advisory Council's review of the FY 1962 military budget, and a document titled, "Analysis of Moscow Conference 'Statement' and Khrushchev Speech of January 6."