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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-KMB-01
Birkhead discusses his interactions with John F. Kennedy (JFK), during JFK’s years in the U.S. Congress, the 1960 presidential campaign, and the evolution of JFK’s knowledge of and views on agriculture, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RVF-01
In this interview Fitzgerald discusses his first time meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK]; JFK’s campaign visit to South Dakota in September 1960; the importance of agriculture in JFK’s Administration; the reaction to JFK’s death in agricultural fields; and the role of agricultural committees in civil defense, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-04-30-A
AR35, ST23
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-038
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture proposed report on H.R. 6852, to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 in order to require hearings with respect to loans for generating plants and electric transmission lines and systems, and to change the rate of interest payable on such loans.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Harris Wofford
JFKWHSFHW-008-014
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-006
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture draft bill to amend the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to insure additional real estate loans, to make and insure loans to associations for additional purposes serving rural residents, to make loans for harvesting and storage, and so on.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-014
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on legislation proposed by the Department of Agriculture to amend Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 and the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act, in order to provide for insuring rural housing loans and market assistance thereof.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-013
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a Department of Agriculture draft bill to amend Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 to provide an alternate method of financing rural housing loans.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-235-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center) visits with members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives, who were in Washington, D.C., for the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; unidentified; Executive Secretary of the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, Roy F. Hendrickson; Executive Vice President of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Kenneth D. Naden; Executive Director of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., Jerry Voorhis; President Kennedy; President of the American Institute of Cooperation, J. K. Stern; Secretary of the National Milk Producers Federation, E. M. Norton; and General Manager of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Clyde T. Ellis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-234-2-63
President John F. Kennedy (left, standing on steps) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the USA, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-234-1-63
President John F. Kennedy (center right, back to camera) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the USA, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr., films in the background at right. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7858-A
President John F. Kennedy (left, standing on steps) speaks to a group of attendees from the National Conference on Cooperatives and the Future. Those in attendance include Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman; members of the Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Cooperatives; and representatives of the American Institute of Cooperation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the National Federation of Grain Cooperatives, the National Milk Producers Federation, the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
Collection
KMBPP
Government official. Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Liaison (1961-68). Correspondence, memorandums, reports, news clippings, and photographs pertaining to the Department of Agriculture and Democratic politics.