• Collection
    Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
    1961-present

    Manuscripts, documents, printed materials, oral history interviews, 1961- . Donations by private individuals documenting personal experiences while serving in the Peace Corps. Includes correspondence, diaries, journals, publications, sketches, memoirs, books, maps, poems, project descriptions, audiovisual materials (including oral history recording...

  • Oral History
    Dean G. Acheson Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/27/1964
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection27 April 1964

    Acheson talks about foreign policy matters during the John F. Kennedy administration and his advice and activities during that time. He also reads the text of several letters he wrote to JFK.

  • Oral History
    Council of Economic Advisers Oral History Interview - JFK#1, 8/1/1964
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection1 August, 1964

    Members of the Council of Ecnomic Advisers discuss the Council of Economic Advisers under President Kennedy, the recession issue, the budget, and the relationship between the Treasury and Federal Reserve, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    Anthony B. Akers Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 7/17/1971
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection17 July 1971

    Akers discusses the 1960 presidential campaign, his posting to New Zealand, his work with Robert Kennedy and the senator’s assassination.

  • Oral History
    Clinton P. Anderson Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/14/1967
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection14 April 1967

    Anderson discusses John F. Kennedy's Cabinet appointments, Kennedy’s positions on agriculture and Medicare policy as Senator and President, and relations between the Kennedy Administration and Congress, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    Letitia K. Baldrige Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/24/1964
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection24 April 1964

    Baldrige discusses entertaining at the White House, state visits, and humorous anecdotes about the Kennedys, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    Richard M. Bissell Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 4/25/1967
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection25 April 1967

    Bissell discusses the planning for the Bay of Pigs invasion, including the timing of when John F. Kennedy learned of the plans, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs’ involvement in the planning, and the possibility for alternate outcomes, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    James B. Brennan Oral History Interview - JFK #1, 12/9/1965
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection9 December 1965

    Brennan discusses the 1960 primary campaign in Wisconsin, John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) campaign visits to Wisconsin, and the reasons why JFK lost Wisconsin to Richard Milhous Nixon in the general election, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    William P. Bundy Oral History Interview - JFK #3, 4/25/1972
    John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection25 April 1972

    Bundy discusses 1961 and 1963 debates about supporting a coup in Vietnam a trip that Bundy, Robert S. McNamara, Maxwell D. Taylor, and other took to Vietnam to gauge sentiments within the country about Ngo Dinh Diem’s government; the November 1963 coup that overthrew Diem, among other issues.

  • Oral History
    Carter (Shirley) Burden Oral History Interview - RFK #2, 12/3/1974
    Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection3 December 1974

    Burden discusses Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign in New York State, including the staff and strategy of the campaign, cash flow problems, and attempts to form coalition slates of delegates with the Eugene J. McCarthy campaign, among other issues.

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