July 11, 2012 Nancy McCoy Director of Education and Public Programs John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The Legacy of the Marshall Plan Harry S. Truman Library & Museum John F. Kennedy and Foreign Aid for the 60s
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July 11, 2012
Nancy McCoy
Director of Education and Public Programs
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
The Legacy of the Marshall PlanHarry S. Truman Library & Museum
John F. Kennedy and Foreign Aidfor the 60s
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
10-acre park Archives and
Museum 250,000 visitors
annually
Archives
200,000 photographs 7,000 hours of audio
recordings 70,000 volumes of
printed materials 8 million feet of film The Hemingway
Collection
Museum Exhibits
The Museum exhibits highlight the life and legacy of President Kennedy:
1960 Campaign and Election Cold War Peace Corps Space Program Civil Rights First Lady Kennedy Family Legacy
What was JFK’s Perspective on Foreign Aid?
Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. Washington, DC. 20 January 1961 [Photograph by Army Signal Corps]
Food for PeaceJanuary 24, 1961
Swearing in ceremony for George McGovern as Director of Food for Peace. (L-R) Assistant to Executive Clerk of the White House Herbert L. Miller; Eleanor McGovern and husband George McGovern. Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. 23 January 1961 (AR6290-F ) [Photograph by Abbie Rowe]
Executive Order Program Expansion
Peace CorpsMarch 1, 1961
Alliance for ProgressMarch 13, 1961
President John F. Kennedy (at far right) speaks at White House Reception for the Latin American Diplomatic Corps. 13 March 1961 (ST-C62-1-61) [Photograph by Cecil Stoughton]
Techo Trabajo y Tierra Salud y Escuela
Charter of Punta del Este, Uruguay (August 1961)
Alliance for ProgressDecember 1961
First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Speaks at La Morita Resettlement Project Ceremony, Venezuela. 16 December 1961 (ST-C290-2-61) [Photograph by Cecil Stoughton]
President John F. Kennedy and President Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia unveil a plaque at a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Techo Housing Project in Bogotá, Colombia. 17 December 1961 (ST-C290-1-61) [Photograph by Cecil Stoughton]
Special Message to Congress on Foreign Aid
March 22, 1961
“ The 1960s can be – and must be – the crucial ‘Decade of Development’…”
UNESCO and Egyptian AntiquitiesApril 7, 1961
Special Report on Foreign Aidfrom Representative Morris Udall
President John F. Kennedy with Congressman Morris K. Udall (Arizona) at Congressional Coffee Hour (House of Representatives). 18 May 1961 (KN-17838) [Photograph by Robert L. Knudsen]
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961
JFK and USAID Directors. June 1962 [photograph by Robert L. Knudsen]
US AIDA single agency to promote
long-term assistance for economic and social development
News Conference 27March 14, 1962
“Mr. President: Some of the economy experts on the Hill….”
John F. Kennedy, Press Conference (15 January 1962).
The Clay Committee ReportMarch 20, 1963
President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with the President’s Special Representative in Berlin, Lucius D. Clay. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. 7 January, 1962 (KN-C19839) [Photograph by Robert L. Knudsen]
“But are we tired of living in a free world?”- John F. Kennedy, November 8, 1963
Aftermath Alliance for Progress Peace Corps Food for Peace (PL-480) US AID
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