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Sound recording
White House Audio Collection
JFKWHA-177-008
Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks after the signing of H.R. 4715, a bill incorporating the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation, in the White House Rose Garden.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-11-27-B
AR29
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-100a-005
This folder contains information collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning the founding and operations of the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation (later known as the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute), a non-profit division of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum dedicated to promoting the study of the time period in which former First Lady and civil rights advocate played a prominent role. Materials in this folder include telegrams and memoranda to trustees from Hyman Bookbinder, Director of the foundation and Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce, regarding an upcoming meeting at the White House and individuals invited to serve on the foundation's council.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-043-039
This folder contains a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's remarks after the signing of H.R. 4715, a bill incorporating the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation. The press copy also includes remarks from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. and Aldai Stevenson, Ambassador to the United Nations.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7601-B
President John F. Kennedy visits with members of the Eleanor Roosevelt Committee; President Kennedy created the committee to establish the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation. Clockwise around table (from lower left): unidentified; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Anna M. Rosenberg; Executive Director of the Citizens Commission for Children of New York, Trude W. Lash; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; unidentified; Representative James Roosevelt (California); United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) and committee chairman, Adlai Stevenson; Deputy Special Counsel to the President, Myer Feldman; President Kennedy; President of United Automobile Workers (UAW), Walter P. Reuther; unidentified; President of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union, David Dubinsky; and President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), George Meany. Photographers stand at left, including New York Times photographer, George Tames; White House Secret Service agent, Frank Yeager, stands at right. Fish Room, White House, Washington, D.C. [Please see the President's appointment book for a full list of attendees.]