For Immediate Release: August 15, 2001
Further information: Tom McNaught (617) 514-1662
Boston: The Kennedy Library released another presidential recording tape today. Tape 62 consists of a White House meeting of November 19, 1962:
TAPE 62:
Subjects: Sino-Indian War (continued); Balance of Payments/Economy; Cuba
Date released: August, 2001
Date of meeting: November 19, 1962
Meeting length: 166 minutes
Status: Declassified in part, 9 excisions: 1 minute and 20 seconds of sound recording have been removed in accordance with Section 3.4 (b) (1), (3) of Executive Order 12958.
Identified Participants, meeting on Sino-Indian War: President John F. Kennedy, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Phillips Talbot, W. Averell Harriman, James Grant, Roger Hilsman, William Sullivan, William Gaud, Paul Nitze, William Bundy, General Goodpaster, John McCone, Huntington Sheldon, D. Fitzgerald, Carl Kaysen, Robert Komer.
Identified Participants, Balance of Payments meeting: C. Douglas Dillon, William Martin, David Bell, Walter Heller, Gardner Ackley, Charles Schultz
Identified Participants, meeting on Cuba: Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy, George Ball, U. Alexis Johnson, Robert Kennedy, John McCone and several others.
Description: Tape begins with the continuation of Tape 61 meeting on the Sino-Indian War which includes detailed assessments and discussions of this escalating situation . Researchers should refer to Foreign Relations of the United States, volume XIX page 394 for further information on this meeting. After that meeting's end, the recordings roll right into the President’s meeting on the balance of payments and economy issues. Although many individuals were in the meeting, the main participant was Federal Reserve Chairman William Martin. Their discussions center on the balance of payments and plans for economic changes. The Cuba meeting, which ends this tape, takes place at the staff level---the President is not in attendance. Researchers should refer to Foreign Relations of the United States, volume XI, page 490 footnotes for information on this meeting. This staff-level Cuba discussion concentrates mainly on contingency plans, the IL 28’s and inspection verification.