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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-PTH-03
In this interview Hart discusses Ellsworth Bunker’s mission in Saudi Arabia; meetings between Bunker and Prime Minister Faisal; Faisal’s distrust of Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egyptian inaction in regards to the agreement reached with Bunker; difficulties with the U.S. Department of Defense over the agreement to train Saudi pilots and use American military equipment; major problems in the Middle East, 1957–1967; communications between John F. Kennedy [JFK] and Faisal; and Saudi reactions to JFK’s death and to Lyndon B. Johnson becoming President, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-06-22-C
AR08
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JCPW-01
In this interview they discuss their article in Look magazine; personal recollections of President John F. Kennedy's [JFK] assassination; working on JFK’s 1960 presidential campaign; JFK’s campaigning style; JFK’s relationship with the press, White House staff, and his family; and JFK’s trips to Nassau, Europe, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s ranch, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-WB-01
Barbour discusses U.S.-Israeli relations during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including negotiations about Palestinian refugees, military aid, and nuclear proliferation, among other issues.
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.
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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-07-08-B
AR38
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-07-23-B
AR24, KN20
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-02-19-C
AR32, ST20, KN30
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-03-B
AR18, KN14
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-04-11-F
AR19, KN15
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7728-P
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and others arrive at the Entrance Hall of the White House for a dinner in honor of President of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, and First Lady of Venezuela, Carmen Valverde de Betancourt. President Betancourt and President Kennedy (right) stand in front of the Grand Staircase. Descending the stairs behind (left to right): U.S. Department of State interpreter, Donald Barnes; Mrs. Betancourt; Mrs. Kennedy; Virginia Betancourt de Pérez, daughter of President and Mrs. Betancourt; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson. Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M13-16-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Pakistan Manzur Qadir; Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Mary Bell, wife of Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Bell; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Madelin Gilpatric, wife of Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric (back to camera); horticulturalist Henry F. duPont (back to camera); Phyllis Chess Ellsworth, wife of Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon (back to camera); President Mohammad Ayub Khan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18029
Luncheon in honor of President of the Republic of the Congo Fulbert Youlou (Brazzaville). President Youlou and President John F. Kennedy are seated in the middle of the table (with an unidentified man crouching between them), and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is seated at the table third from the right with his back to the camera. The painting over the fireplace is an 1869 portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George P. A. Healy and was donated to the White House in 1939. The inscription in the green marble fireplace was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and taken from a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail, and reads, “I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.” State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17735
Dinner in honor of Habib Bourguiba, Sr., President of Tunisia. Standing on South Portico Balcony, facing South Lawn (L-R): President Bourguiba; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C17734
Dinner in honor of Habib Bourguiba, Sr., President of Tunisia. Standing on South Portico Balcony, facing South Lawn (L-R): President Bourguiba; President John F. Kennedy; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6659-Q
Dinner in honor of President John F. Kennedy at the Japanese Embassy, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Zentaro Kosaka, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mitsue Ikeda, Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6659-O
Dinner in honor of President John F. Kennedy at the Japanese Embassy, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Zentaro Kosaka, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mitsue Ikeda, Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6659-N
Dinner in honor of President John F. Kennedy at the Japanese Embassy, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Zentaro Kosaka, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mitsue Ikeda, Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6633-B
President John F. Kennedy meets with Prime Minister of Italy Amintore Fanfani. (L-R) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Segni, Prime Minister Fanfani, and President Kennedy. West Sitting Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6633-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with Prime Minister of Italy Amintore Fanfani. (L-R) Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Segni, Prime Minister Fanfani, Italian Ambassador to the United States Sergio Fenoaltea (standing), and President Kennedy. West Sitting Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6536-J
(L-R) President of Indonesia Ahmed Sukarno; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson aboard a United States Army helicopter on the South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6536-H
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson walk with President of Indonesia Ahmed Sukarno before President Sukarno’s departure, South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6536-G
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stand with President of Indonesia Ahmed Sukarno before President Sukarno’s departure, South Lawn, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6521-D
President John F. Kennedy meets with Prime Minister of Greece Konstantine Karamanlis (also referred to as Konstantinos Karamanlis or Constantine Caramanlis) in the West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Prime Minister Karamanlis; President Kennedy; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.