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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-03
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1962 steel crisis; some major issues and accomplishments of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] presidency; choosing the U.S. Ambassador to Russia; foreign aid and treaties; the military coup in Peru; the space race during the Kennedy Administration; the 1962 congressional and gubernatorial campaigns; JFK’s dinner for the Nobel Prize winners; the Polaris submarines; problems with the New York Herald Tribune; New York politics; various pieces of federal legislation, 1961–1963; the Dominican Republic; Department of Justice investigations under RFK; the difficulties of being Attorney General; congressional issues in early 1963; the Vietnam War escalation in 1963; American support of the coup in Vietnam; Henry Cabot Lodge as the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; the prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion; American actions in Cuba; unemployment and civil rights; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin; JFK’s trips to the South and speeches on civil rights; the nuclear test ban treaty; and JFK’s trip to Ireland and Rome, among other issues.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-340-021
This file contains a draft and copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 233 (NSAM 233) titled, “MLF [multilateral force] and IANF [inter-allied nuclear force] Developments,” to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-340-018
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 230 (NSAM 230) titled, “Assignment of Highest National Priority to Project PAL (Permissive Links for Nuclear Weapons in NATO),” to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg, Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) James E. Webb, Director of the Bureau of the Budget Kermit Gordon, and Director of the Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) Edward McDermott from McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-340-008
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 222 (NSAM 222) titled, “Security Aspects of Using Submarines in a Multilateral Force,” to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Secretary of State Dean Rusk from President John F. Kennedy. Also included is a paper comparing submarines and surface ships for a sea-based missile force in the event a multilateral nuclear force is established within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-336-016
This file contains copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 160 (NSAM 160) titled, "Permissive Links for Nuclear Weapons in NATO," to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg, and Director of the Bureau of the Budget David Bell from President John F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-331-022
This folder contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 92 (NSAM 92) to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara from President John F. Kennedy regarding a potential increase in military forces in Europe and the effect on Berlin and a long-term defense plan for NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). Also included in this folder are memoranda to President Kennedy from Secretaries Rusk and McNamara, and Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon in response to NSAM 92.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-336-010
This file contains a copy of National Security Action Memoranda number 154 (NSAM 154) titled, "U.S. NATO Alert Procedures," to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone from President John F. Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. National Security Files
JFKNSF-335-022
This file contains copies of National Security Action Memoranda number 143 (NSAM 143) titled, "Nuclear Weapons for NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] Forces," to Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Glenn T. Seaborg from President John F. Kennedy.