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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-ROWK-06
In this interview Komer discusses U.S. aid to India and Pakistan and some problems involved with it, including the question of long-term U.S. aid and a shift in focus from Pakistan to India; problems with the Agency for International Development; oil and U.S. policy; U.S. involvement in the Congo; Komer’s meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] and how Komer briefed him; the relations among JFK, Dean Rusk, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adlai E. Stevenson, and McGeorge Bundy; JFK’s interest in India and Pakistan and his attempt at a mediation between the two on Kashmir; and JFK and Algeria and Morocco, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-03-22-D
AR34, KN32
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C27387
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), David E. Bell (left), and Chairman of the Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, General Lucius D. Clay. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7782-A
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), David E. Bell (left), and Chairman of the Committee to Strengthen the Security of the Free World, General Lucius D. Clay. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.