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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BBH-01
In this interview Hickenlooper discusses various meetings with President John F. Kennedy [JFK] on foreign relations; Soviet and American nuclear testing; the nuclear test ban treaty; the Bay of Pigs invasion; Laos and Vietnam; the Punta del Este Conference in 1962; the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Hickenlooper's 1962 reelection campaign; traveling with JFK to Costa Rica; the 1961 Berlin crisis; JFK's congressional relations; and social occasions at the Kennedy White House, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-D
ST04, KN08
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-25-B
ST04, KN08
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-08-03-B
AR10, KN06
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-09-12-A
AR10, ST04, KN07
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.
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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-13-B
AR26
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18904
President John F. Kennedy and United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Adlai Stevenson greet delegates to the General Assembly of the UN at United Nations Headquarters, New York City, New York. President of the UN General Assembly Mongi Slim (in foreground, back to camera) looks on.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18746
Assistant Executive Clerk of the White House, Herbert L. Miller, swears in representatives and alternates of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). (L-R) Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., United States Ambassador to Norway; Jonathan Brewster Bingham, US representative to the UN Trusteeship Council; Representative Marguerite Stitt Church of Illinois; Charles W. Yost, Deputy Representative to the UN Security Council; Representative Omar Burleson of Texas; US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson; President John F. Kennedy; Mr. Miller; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Gladys A. Tillett; Philip M. Klutznick. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18745
Assistant Executive Clerk of the White House, Herbert L. Miller, swears in representatives and alternates of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). (L-R) Francis T.P. Plimpton; Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., United States Ambassador to Norway; Jonathan Brewster Bingham, US representative to the UN Trusteeship Council; Representative Marguerite Stitt Church of Illinois; Charles W. Yost, Deputy Representative to the UN Security Council; Representative Omar Burleson of Texas; US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson; President John F. Kennedy; Mr. Miller; Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C18744
President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Adlai Stevenson during the swearing-in ceremony for representatives and alternates of the United States Delegation to the General Assembly of the UN, Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. (L-R) Francis T.P. Plimpton (partially out of frame); Clifton R. Wharton, Sr., United States Ambassador to Norway; Jonathan Brewster Bingham, US representative to the UN Trusteeship Council; Representative Marguerite Stitt Church of Illinois; Charles W. Yost, Deputy Representative to the UN Security Council; Representative Omar Burleson of Texas; Ambassador Stevenson; President Kennedy; Assistant Executive Clerk of the White House, Herbert L. Miller (officiating the ceremony); Secretary of State Dean Rusk (mostly hidden); Gladys A. Tillett.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-81-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-80-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny; Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-215-79-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (partially hidden); Prince Sihanouk; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (mostly hidden behind President Kennedy); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-78-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Prince Sihanouk; Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny; President Kennedy; United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; unidentified reporter; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-77-61
President John F. Kennedy meets with Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong (partially out of frame); United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-76-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (back to camera, bottom right); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-75-61
President John F. Kennedy holds a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble. Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny (partially out of frame) is at bottom right.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-74-61
President John F. Kennedy gestures toward a small statue presented by Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong; United States Ambassador to Cambodia William Trimble (partially hidden); John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Ambassador of Cambodia Nong Kimny.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-72-61
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia presents President John F. Kennedy with a silver urn in the President’s Suite at the Carlyle Hotel, New York City, New York. (L-R) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson; Prince Sihanouk; President Kennedy; John Steeves, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (back to camera); Foreign Affairs Minister for Cambodia Nhiek Tioulong.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-67-61
President John F. Kennedy, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, and others talk with members of Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) during a luncheon at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-64-61
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson (back table, immediately right of door handle) and others talk with members of Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) during a luncheon at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-63-61
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson (four from left at back table), Secretary of State Dean Rusk (second from left at front table, looking at a piece of paper), and others talk with members of Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) during a luncheon at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York.
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JFKWHP-ST-215-62-61
President John F. Kennedy, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson, and others talk with members of Latin American delegations to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) during a luncheon at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, New York.