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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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-12-27-B
ST18
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C73-4-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and others at the residence of C. Michael Paul in Palm Beach, Florida. Seated at table (clockwise from top): President Kennedy; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; unidentified (back to camera); former Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker; former Chairman of the JCS, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. [Notes: Scratches on right hand side of image are original to the negative.]