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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.
Collection
USAID
Records 1960-1964, 1969. Microfilm copies of records of the Administrator, bureaus, and other agency offices; includes correspondence, budgets, program reports, project reports, speeches, press releases, publications. Hard copy includes speeches by David Bell and Frank Coffin, organization studies, press releases, printed material, and field inspection reports.