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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JPH-01
In this interview Healey discusses meeting the Kennedy brothers at Harvard; John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] campaign for the House of Representatives in 1946; Healey’s political experience in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Michael J. Neville; Massachusetts politics in the postwar period; the “age factor” in the 1946 campaign; the development of JFK’s public speaking ability; engaging with the academic community in Cambridge during the 1946 campaign; Kennedy family members helping out on JFK’s campaigns; JFK’s worries after his election to his first term in Congress and his work once the term began; JFK on the House Labor Committee and the Hartley Bill in the House; the petition for the pardon of James Michael Curley and issues for JFK; Paul A. Dever; JFK’s 1952 campaign for Senate; Henry Cabot Lodge; speechwriting during the 1952 campaign; and Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and JFK’s campaigns, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-01-18-C
ST19, KN29
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-36-2-63
President John F. Kennedy meets with United States Senators. Left to right: Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts); Senator Frank Church (Idaho); Senator John O. Pastore (Rhode Island); Senator Edmund S. Muskie (Maine); President Kennedy; Senator Herman E. Talmadge (Georgia); Senator Gale W. McGee (Wyoming). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Scratches on image are original to the negative.]