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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-05-B
AR07
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-02
Cass discusses changes in the responsibilities of various assistant secretaries of labor under Secretaries of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, employment and anti-poverty efforts, and federal intervention in labor-management negotiations, 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-07
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] and Marshall discuss the very limited proposal for voting rights legislation before the demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama; how civil rights groups did not always understand politics or how to get things through Congress; John F. Kennedy [JFK] trying to explain political difficulties to civil rights leaders; meetings on civil rights legislation and the strategy for getting the votes for a civil rights bill in both houses of Congress; RFK’s disagreements with Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation; RFK, the Justice Department, and the reapportionment cases; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin and the subsequent attack on RFK in the press; JFK’s role in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963; speeches at the March on Washington; George Wallace, Alabama state troopers, and the investigation into the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, September, 1963; and JFK, James J. Delaney, and the issue of aid to church schools, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-03
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses the 1962 steel crisis; some major issues and accomplishments of John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] presidency; choosing the U.S. Ambassador to Russia; foreign aid and treaties; the military coup in Peru; the space race during the Kennedy Administration; the 1962 congressional and gubernatorial campaigns; JFK’s dinner for the Nobel Prize winners; the Polaris submarines; problems with the New York Herald Tribune; New York politics; various pieces of federal legislation, 1961–1963; the Dominican Republic; Department of Justice investigations under RFK; the difficulties of being Attorney General; congressional issues in early 1963; the Vietnam War escalation in 1963; American support of the coup in Vietnam; Henry Cabot Lodge as the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; the prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion; American actions in Cuba; unemployment and civil rights; RFK’s meeting with James Baldwin; JFK’s trips to the South and speeches on civil rights; the nuclear test ban treaty; and JFK’s trip to Ireland and Rome, 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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-08-13-A
AR25
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-03-20-B
AR17, KN13
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-03-15-B
AR17, KN13
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-01-17-E
AR15
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20490
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the bill-signing for the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman Carl D. Perkins (Kentucky); Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Senator Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (New Hampshire); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller; Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20489
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands out pens after signing the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Senator Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (New Hampshire); Congressman Charles S. Joelson of New Jersey (partially hidden); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller; Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara of Michigan (partially hidden); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman James G. O'Hara of Michigan (in back); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany (in back); Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20488
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Senator Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (New Hampshire); Congressman Charles S. Joelson (New Jersey); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20487
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Senator Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (New Hampshire); Congressman Charles S. Joelson (New Jersey); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Congressman Peter A. Garland of Maine (partially hidden); Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20486
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the bill-signing for the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman Carl D. Perkins (Kentucky); Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Senator Maurice J. Murphy, Jr. (New Hampshire); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Congressman Peter A. Garland of Maine (partially hidden); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller; Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany (in back); Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Abraham Ribicoff. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20485
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) delivers remarks at the bill-signing for the Manpower Development and Training Act (Public Law 415). Looking on (L-R): Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman Carl D. Perkins (Kentucky); Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa); Congressman Charles E. Goodell (New York); Congressman Peter A. Garland of Maine (behind Goodell); Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew J. Biemiller; Congressman Carroll D. Kearns (Pennsylvania); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); Senator Joseph S. Clark (Pennsylvania); Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York); Congressman Elmer J. Holland (Pennsylvania); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Damage to lower portion of image is original to the negative.]
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20550
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg after signing the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act. Standing (L-R): Congressman James Roosevelt (California), Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York), Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York), Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota), Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey), Senator Benjamin A. Smith II (Massachusetts), Secretary Goldberg, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon (behind Secretary Goldberg, in profile), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20548
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act. Standing (L-R): Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania), Congressman James Roosevelt (California), Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York), Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York), Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota), Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey), Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa), Senator Wayne Morse (Oregon), unidentified, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20547
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon after signing the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act. Standing (L-R): Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania), Congressman James Roosevelt (California), Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York), Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York), Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota), Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey), Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa), Senator Benjamin A. Smith II of Massachusetts (in back), Senator Morse, unidentified, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6562-C
President John F. Kennedy signs HR 3935 Public Law 87-30 Minimum Wage Act. L-R: Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan); Congressman Adam C. Powell (New York); President Kennedy; Congressman John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Congressman James Roosevelt (California); President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma), in front of Goldberg; unidentified man in back; Alex Rose, of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union; unidentified man in front; President of Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, Cornelius J. Haggerty (behind unidentified man). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6562-B
President John F. Kennedy signs HR 3935 Public Law 87-30 Minimum Wage Act. L-R: President of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Jacob S. Potofsky; President of Retail Clerks International Association, James Suffridge; President of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, David Dubinsky (in front); two unidentified persons in back; Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan); President Kennedy; Congressman John W. McCormack (Massachusetts); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota), partially hidden; Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg (in front); Congressman James Roosevelt (California), behind Goldberg; President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma); unidentified man in back; Alex Rose, of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union; unidentified man; President of Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, Cornelius J. Haggerty (far right). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6562-A
President John F. Kennedy signs HR 3935 Public Law 87-30 Minimum Wage Act. Standing, L-R: President of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, David Dubinsky; two unidentified persons in back; Senator Winston L. Prouty (Vermont); Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania); Senator Pat McNamara (Michigan); Congressman Adam C. Powell (New York); Congressman Alvin E. O’Konski (Wisconsin); Congressman John W. McCormack (Massachusetts), behind O’Konski; Congressman James Roosevelt (California); Secretary of Labor, Arthur Goldberg; President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany; Congressman Carl Albert (Oklahoma), in front; Alex Rose, of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (behind Albert); two unidentified men; President of Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, Cornelius J. Haggerty (far right). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C20544
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) signs the Welfare and Pension Plans Disclosure Act. Standing (L-R): Congressman John H. Dent (Pennsylvania), Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia (behind Congressman Dent), Congressman James Roosevelt (California), Speaker of the House of Representatives John W. McCormack of Massachusetts (partially hidden behind Congressman Roosevelt), Senator Jacob K. Javits (New York), Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (New York), Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota), Congressman Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (New Jersey), Congressman Neal Smith (Iowa), Senator Wayne Morse (Oregon), unidentified, Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg (on edge of frame). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.