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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-214-007
This folder contains telegrams, memoranda, and draft reports on United States policies and objectives towards Europe. Topics include European unity, communism, France and French President Charles de Gaulle, the European Economic Community (EEC), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and shared nuclear responsibility.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-214-006
This folder contains memoranda for the record of European Policy Review group meetings. Topics include United States military forces in Europe and within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), the European Economic Community (EEC) and France, a proposed multilateral nuclear force (MLF) within NATO, relations between France and Germany, and French President Charles de Gaulle.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-214-003
This folder contains papers by Policy Review (PR) study groups regarding United States policy towards Europe; an appraisal of British, French, and West German strategic views; and the impact of an Executive Committee within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on the policies of French President Charles de Gaulle. Also included in this folder is a paper by the PR Military Committee titled, “Strategic Problems and Alternatives,” discussing the Cold War, collective defense in Europe, and a European nuclear weapons force.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-213-003
This folder contains memoranda regarding the role of the United States in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense system, U.S. policy towards Germany, and French President Charles de Gaulle’s foreign policy. Also included in this folder are materials regarding a speech by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer discussing German domestic and foreign policy; and relations between Germany, the U.S., and NATO.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-072-004
This file contains Department of State telegrams regarding France including participation in a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) multilateral nuclear force, an assassination plot against French President Charles de Gaulle, French territories, and criticism by the French media of the United States agricultural policy and Trade Expansion Act.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-213-002
This folder contains memoranda and reports regarding European countries. Topics include United States policies in Europe; relations between France and the Soviet Union; French President Charles de Gaulle and resistance to Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market (also known as the European Economic Community); and a cost estimate of the U.S. partnership with Europe in the areas of military expenditures, foreign aid, and trade. Also included in this folder are memoranda by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) titled, “Franco-Soviet Discussions and Negotiations,” and United States Information Agency (USIA) Research and Reference Service reports titled, “Reactions to European Situation.”
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-212-007
This file contains memoranda regarding negotiations for Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market (also known as the European Economic Community, or EEC) and resistance by French President Charles de Gaulle, and United States relations and policies toward European countries. Also included are reports of foreign news media reaction to a veto by France of Great Britain’s admittance into the Common Market.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-212-004
This file contains Department of State telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Information Reports regarding negotiations for Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market (also known as the European Economic Community, or EEC) and resistance by French President Charles de Gaulle. Also included is a copy of a friendship treaty between France and Germany (also known as the Élysée Treaty).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-025
This folder contains a draft of a letter from President John F. Kennedy to President of France Charles de Gaulle regarding test ban treaty negotiations between the United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Also included in this folder is a summary of a meeting discussing the test ban treaty, revisions to the letter to President de Gaulle, and potential French reaction to the treaty.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-317-006
This folder contains summaries of meetings with President John F. Kennedy. Topics include Laos and a failed SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) initiative, development of a civil defense policy, and United States policy towards the Dominican Republic following the assassination of Generalissimo Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. Also included in this folder is a summary of President Kennedy’s trip to Europe and his conversations with President of France Charles de Gaulle and Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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Joseph P. Kennedy Personal Papers
JPKPP-100-018
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-330-014
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 64 (NSAM 64) to Secretary of State Dean Rusk from President John F. Kennedy discussing a need to improve world-wide consultation as implied in a letter to the President from French President Charles de Gaulle; and a memorandum to President Kennedy from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, regarding NSAM 64.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-234-003
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including background papers, talking points, and briefing materials for President Kennedy's discussions with President Charles de Gaulle of France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-234-002
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including background papers, talking points, and briefing materials for President Kennedy's discussions with President Charles de Gaulle of France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-234-001
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including background papers, talking points, and briefing materials for President Kennedy's discussions with President Charles de Gaulle of France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-233-010
This folder includes briefing book material for President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including schedules, guest and passenger lists, and other logistical documentation.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-233-009
This folder includes briefing book material for President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including talking papers for meetings between President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle of France.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-233-007
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including reports and memoranda of conversations for meetings between President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-233-006
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's trip to Paris, France, including schedules, reports, and memoranda of conversations for meetings between President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle in Paris.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-233-004
This folder includes material related to President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's trip to Europe, including stops in Paris, France; Vienna, Austria; and London, England. The folder includes schedules, reports, and memoranda of conversations for meetings between President Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle of France in Paris, as well as meetings between President Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union in Vienna.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-226-006
This folder contains memoranda, telegrams, and correspondence regarding United States cooperation with France on nuclear weapons safety and control, U.S. relations with France and French President Charles de Gaulle, and nuclear testing by France. Also included in this folder are memoranda to President John F. Kennedy from Under Secretary of State George Ball titled, “Proposed Nuclear Offer to De Gaulle,” and, “A Further Nuclear Offer to De Gaulle,” discussing France and a nuclear test ban treaty.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-080-012
This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Materials concern Department of Defense expenditures in relation to the balance of payments, a summary of a meeting between Chairman of the JCS Lyman L. Lemnitzer and President of France Charles De Gaulle, a speech by Lemnitzer, an evaluation of news articles by Joseph Alsop regarding the military build-up in East Germany, and agenda items for a meeting with the President.