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Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-LWH-01
In this interview Lord Harlech discusses his earlier memories of Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] from the 1930s through the 1950s; RFK’s religion; RFK’s character, including some of his interests, faults, and struggles; dealings in Vietnam under John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] Administration; RFK’s difficult relationship with Lyndon B. Johnson; RFK’s relationship with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis after JFK’s death; and life with RFK at Hickory Hill, among other issues.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0897-002
This folder contains a copy and a draft of Senator John F. Kennedy's speech given at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in Lynchburg, Virginia. In his speech the Senator discusses a need for assistance at the local, state, and Federal levels to end labor racketeering and ensure fair labor standards and practices; and United States foreign policy in the Middle East. The draft contains notations by Senator Kennedy.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0895-031
This folder contains press releases and copies of Senator John F. Kennedy's speech at a Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner in Richmond, Virginia. In his speech the Senator discusses President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration including economic issues, foreign policy, the need for greater Democratic leadership, and the 1956 presidential campaign.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Pre-Presidential Papers. Senate Files
JFKSEN-0910-021
This file contains copies of Senator John F. Kennedy’s speech given at a Democratic rally in Alexandria, Virginia discussing foreign policy under the direction of Vice President Richard M. Nixon, and a need for Democratic leadership to address international challenges.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M13-9-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Aerial view of Continental Color Guard and Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (part of the “Old Guard”). Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-8-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): President John F. Kennedy; Begum Shereen Aziz Ahmed, wife of Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Aziz Ahmed; Illinois Congressman Robert B. Chiperfield; Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and wife of late Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth; Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck (back to camera); Lady Bird Johnson (back to camera); New York Congressman John J. Rooney (back to camera); Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Begum Nasir Akhtar Aurangzeb, daughter of President Ayub Khan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-M13-7-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Aerial view of Continental Color Guard and Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment (part of the “Old Guard”). Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-6-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Jean Kennedy Smith; David Bell, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; General Maxwell Taylor, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Miriam Judd, wife of Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Secretary of State Dean Rusk (back to camera); Ruth duPont, wife of Henry Francis duPont (back to camera); businessman and philanthropist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.; Pauline V. Hoving, wife of Tiffany & Company owner Walter Hoving (partially hidden); Aziz Ahmed, Pakistan Ambassador to the United States. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-5-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-4-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-3-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Social Secretary to the First Lady Letitia Baldrige; Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton (standing); Air Force Chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay; journalist Doris Fleeson Kimball, wife of former Secretary of the Navy Dan A. Kimball; Missouri Senator Stuart Symington; Mrs. James Deakin; businessman Maurice Tempelsman (back to camera); Edith Vanocur, wife of journalist Sander “Sandy” Vanocur (back to camera); Syed Haider Raza, Air Vice Marshal for Pakistan Air Force; Maureen Mansfield, wife of Montana Senator Mike Mansfield; David Finley, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the White House Historical Association. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-2-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Various unidentified guests. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-16-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Pakistan Manzur Qadir; Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Mary Bell, wife of Director of the Office of Management and Budget David Bell; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Madelin Gilpatric, wife of Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric (back to camera); horticulturalist Henry F. duPont (back to camera); Phyllis Chess Ellsworth, wife of Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon (back to camera); President Mohammad Ayub Khan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-15-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-14-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Anne Bodine Clifton, wife of Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton; Walter Hoving, owner of Tiffany & Company; Mrs. Syed Haider Raza, wife of the Air Vice Marshal for the Pakistan Air Force; Anne Sidey, wife of journalist Hugh Sidey; Nsim Ahmed; Mrs. John Taber, wife of New York Congressman John Taber; Oklahoma Congressman Carl Albert. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-13-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Military Aide to the President General Chester V. Clifton (wearing uniform); Mrs. John J. Rooney; Iowa Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper; Betty Ford (mostly hidden); journalist William S. White; Mrs. Austin B. Mason; Nazir Ahmed, Pakistani Secretary of the Ministry of National Reconstruction and Information; Blanche Halleck, wife of Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck; Pennsylvania Congressman Thomas E. Morgan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-12-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright; journalist Ève Curie Labouisse, wife of American Ambassador to Greece Henry R. Labouisse; Chief of Protocol Angier Biddle Duke; Julia Ann Shepard, wife of Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr.; Brigadier M. Sarwar, Physician to President Ayub Khan; Ohio Congresswoman Frances Bolton (back to camera). Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-11-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top) Phyllis Chess Ellsworth, wife of Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; President Mohammad Ayub Khan; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Pakistan Manzur Qadir; others unidentified. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-10-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): General Maxwell Taylor, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army; Miriam Judd, wife of Minnesota Congressman Walter H. Judd; Secretary of State Dean Rusk; businessman and philanthropist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.; Pauline V. Hoving, wife of Tiffany & Company owner Walter Hoving (back to camera); Aziz Ahmed, Pakistan Ambassador to the United States (back to camera); Jean Kennedy Smith (partially hidden); David Bell, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-ST-M13-1-61
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; Julia Reed, wife of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury James A. Reed; Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric; S.K. Dehlavi, Foreign Secretary of Pakistan (partially hidden); Doloris Thauwald Bridges, wife of New Hampshire Senator Styles Bridges; Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman (back to camera); journalist Sander “Sandy” Vanocur; Mildred Talbot, wife of Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Phillips Talbot. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18339
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (L – R) President John F. Kennedy; Rosamonde R. Beirne, Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association (presenting bust of George Washington to President Khan); President Mohammad Ayub Khan. Ohio Congresswoman Frances Bolton (partially hidden behind President Ayub Khan). Various unidentified guests and reporters. Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18338
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (President John F. Kennedy’s table, clockwise from top): Begum Nasir Akhtar Aurangzeb, daughter of President Ayub Khan; President Kennedy; Begum Shereen Aziz Ahmed, wife of Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Aziz Ahmed; Illinois Congressman Robert B. Chiperfield; Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and wife of late Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth; Indiana Congressman Charles Halleck; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s table, clockwise from top): Phyllis Chess Ellsworth, wife of Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; President Mohammad Ayub Khan (partially hidden); First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; others unidentified. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18337
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen (facing camera, wearing white jacket); others unidentified. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18336
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. Unidentified guests. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.
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JFKWHP-KN-C18335
State dinner in honor of President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan. (Clockwise from top): First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; Foreign Minister of Pakistan Manzur Qadir (mostly hidden); Madelin Gilpatric, wife of Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric (back to camera); horticulturalist Henry F. duPont (back to camera); Phyllis Chess Ellsworth, wife of Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon; President Mohammad Ayub Khan. Marquee; Mount Vernon, Virginia.