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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-WWC-01
Cochrane discusses John F. Kennedy’s (JFK) agricultural views, the Agricultural Act of 1961’s procedural approach, and the relationship between JFK and the Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-OLF-01
Freeman discusses Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign against John F. Kenney for the presidential nomination; concerns the public had with Kennedy’s voting on farm issues as a senator and also his Catholicism and later joining the Kennedy administration.
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.