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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EWC-01
Clague discusses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ role during John F. Kennedy’s administration; Kennedy’s Labor Secretaries, Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz; and the working relationships among the various bureaus during the Kennedy Administration, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-MC-01
Cass discusses the operations of the Department of Labor and the various Secretaries of Labor that he worked under, the transition between the Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy administrations, and Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg’s administrative style, 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.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JCD-01
Donovan discusses Maine politics, Secretaries of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz, and John F. Kennedy administration labor policy, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JAED-01
Dodson discusses the Labor department under the John F. Kennedy administration, the problems in the Labor department, and women in high-ranking positions, among other issues.
Collection
USDL
Records 1953-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records created by the Department of Labor during the Kennedy administration, consisting of reading files of correspondence by the Secretary of Labor and other department officials, reports, studies, briefing materials, speeches, press releases, and publications. Also includes records of the Under Secretary of Labor, the Solicitor of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Office of Policy Planning and Research, the Women's Bureau, the Bureau of Employment Security, the Office of Manpower Automation and Training, and the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. Hard copy printed material includes publications, reports, periodicals, newsletters, statistics and data sets, speeches, press releases, articles, booklets and pamphlets, and promotional material.
Collection
WWWPP
Papers 1934-1979. Lawyer, educator, government official. Professor of law, Northwestern University (1946-1954); Executive Secretary, Wage Stabilization Board (1951-1953); Under Secretary of Labor (1961-1962) and Secretary of Labor (1962-1969).