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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.
Textual folder
Bernard L. Boutin Personal Papers
BLBPP-MF23-003
This folder contains material pertaining to written statements and testimony by Bernard Boutin before Congressional committees. Topics include federal budget appropriations for the General Services Administration (GSA); proposed bills and legislation; the federal telecommunications system; the economics of military procurement and supply; and the disposition of federal property such as Ellis Island and Mitchel Air Force Base. Specific documents found in this file include a Report to Congress by the Comptroller General on "Unnecessary Costs to the Government for Commercial Long Distance Telephone Calls Made by Civil Agencies" (March 1964); a compilation of "GSA Selected Statistics, July 1, 1952 - June 30, 1962"; and an "Inventory of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Equipment in the Federal Government" (August 1962). In addition, there are copies of a few statements by other individuals such as Joseph Campbell, U.S. Comptroller General; Congressman Jack Brooks; George B. Hartzog, Jr., National Park Service; Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of New York; and Wayne C. Grover, Archivist of the United States.