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Undated President John F. Kennedy Assassination November 22, 1963: 1963 COMPILATION OF 80 WATERCOLOR DRAWINGS OF MEET THE PRESS GUESTS, CREATED BY HELEN COGSWELL TROSTEL MAY 19,1963 - SEPTEMBER 18 ,1966 Undated Laurence E. Spivak, "Permanent Panel Member on Meet the Press, America's Press Conference of the Air, presented by N.B.C." President John F. Kennedy assassination November 22, 1963: Undated: John Fitzgerald Kennedy in The Conversation with Sander Vanocur November 25, 1963: At the President's Reception for the Heads of State who had earlier that day attended the funeral of John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1963 May 19, 1963: Muhammed Zafrulla Kahn, Pakistan, Current President of U.N. Assembly May 26, 1963: James Meredith - enrolled at the University of Mississippi 1962 June 2, 1963: Governor George Wallace (on desegregation) June 9th, 1963: United States Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel June 16, 1963: Henry Cabot Lodge June 23, 1963: Attorney General Robert Kennedy June 30, 1963: Senator Thruston B. Martin, Kentucky, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee July 7, 1963: May Craig, Portland Press Herald on the panel to interview Senator John G. Tower, Republican, Texas July 7, 1963: Senator John G. Tower, Republican, Texas July 14, 1963: Representative Robert Taft, jr., Republican - Ohio, member of House Banking and Currency, and Education and Labor Committee July 21, 1963: Conference Chairman Governor Albert D. Rosellini, Democrat - Washington and Governor Farris Bryant, Democrat, Florida at The Annual Governor's Conference, Miami, Florida July 28, 1963: H.E. Gilbert, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen - on settlement of rail dispute August 4, 1963: Former Governor W. Averell Harriman of N.Y., Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs August 11, 1963: Senator Richard B. Russell, Georgia, Democrat, Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee; Leader of the Fight against the President's Civil Rights program August 18, 1963: George F. Kennan, Former Ambassador to the USSR; Recent Ambassador to Yugoslavia August 25, 1963: Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference September 1, 1963: Dr. Edward Teller, Physicist, and opponent of the Test-ban Treaty September 15, 1963: Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Republican, New York September 29, 1963: Reginald Maulding, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer October 6, 1963: His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia October 13, 1963: Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu of SouthVietnam and her daughter Le Thuy October 27, 1963: Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Central Africa November 10, 1963: Professor Zbigniew Brzesinski, Director, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University December 15, 1963: Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps December 29, 1963: Professor James MacGregor Burns, Chairman of the Dept, of Political Science at Williams College; Biographer of the late Pres. John F. Kennedy 1964 January 26, 1964: Representative Howard W. Smith, Democrat - Virginia, Chairman of the House Rules Committee February 2, 1964: "The EV and Charlie Show" Senator Everett Dirksen - Illinois, Senate Minority Leader and Rep. Charles Halleck - Indiana,House Minority Leader February 9, 1964: Governor George Romney, Republican Michigan, Possible Presidential Candidate February 17, 1964: Governor William W. Scranton, Pennsylvania - Possibility for GOP Presidential Nomination February 23, 1964: Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel to Pres. Johnson and the late President Kennedy March 1st, 1964: George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State March 8, 1964: Senator Hubert Humphrey, Democratic Whip March 22, 1964: Sargent Shriver, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity; Director, Peace Corps March 29, 1964: Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, Massachusetts April 5, 1964: Dr. Milton Eisenhower, The President of Johns Hopkins University,;Critical Issues Council Chairman Republican Citizens Committee April 19, 1964: King Hussein of Jordan, Who is on a State Visit to the United States April 26, 1964: Mme. Indira Gandhi, Daughter of Prime Minister Nehru of India May 3rd, 1964: Winthrop Rockefeller, Republican Candidate for Governor of Arkansas May 16, 1964: Governor Mark Hatfield of Oregon May 31, 1964: Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, Campaign Manager for Gov. Rockefeller and Former Senator Wm. F. Knowland, Campaign manager for Barry Goldwater June 7, 1964: Governor John Anderson, Jr., Republican of Kansas; Conference Chairman and Governor James A. Rhodes, Republican of Ohio, Host Governor, at the Governor's Conference, Cleveland, Ohio June 14, 1964: Denison Kitchel, National Campaign Manager for Senator Barry Goldwater June 21, 1964: Governor Carlos Lacerda, Guanabara, Brazil - top contender for office of President of Brazil June 28, 1964: French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve do Murville in Paris (relayed via Telstar Satellite) August 2, 1964: LeRoy Collins, Director, Community Relations Service August 9, 1964: Senator Mike Mansfield, Democrat of Montana, Concerning the Vice Presidential Race August 16, 1964: Mayor Robert Wagner of New York City September 6, 1964: Robert Welch, Head of the John Birch Society September 13, 1964: Rep. William E. Miller, Republican, New York, The Vice Presidential Candidate December 13, 1964: Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. Representative to the United Nations December 27, 1964: Dr. James B. Conant, Authority on Education, and Author of "Shaping Educational Policy" 1965 January 17, 1965: Dean Birch, Chairman Republican National Committee January 31, 1965: Dr. Bernard Fall, Professor of International Relations, Howard University, Washington, D.C. February 7, 1965: David J.McDonald, President,United Steelworkers of America (since 1952) and I.W. Abel, Secretary-Treasurer, United Steelworkers of America (since 1952) February 14, 1965: Governor Paul B. Johnson, Democrat, Mississippi February 28, 1965: Senator Russell B. Long, Democrat, Louisiana, Senate Majority Whit; Member Foreign Relations and Finance Committees; Delegate to the U.N. March 7th, 1965: Abba Eban, Deputy Prime Minister, Israel; former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and to the U.N. March 14, 1965: Senator J. W. Fulbright , (Democrat, Arkansas) Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 21, 1965: General Thomas S. Power, U.S.A.F. (Ret.) , Former Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command April 4, 1965: McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs April 11, 1965: Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Attorney General of the United States April 18, 1965: Willy Brandt, Governing Mayor of Berlin and Candidate for Chancellor of Social Democratic Party April 25, 1965: Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury May 2, 1965: Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, interviewed about his recent trip to Vietnam and Southeast Asia May 9, 1965: Thanat Khoman, Foreign Minister of Thailand May 30, 1965: Dean Rusk, Secretary of State June 6, 1965: Chancellor Erhard of West Germany June 13, 1965: 1964 Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater July 11, 1965: Rep. John V. Lindsay, Republican, N.Y., Candidate for Mayor of New York City July 4, 1965: Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall August 29, 1965: Los Angeles police Chief, William H. Parker October 31, 1965: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of the Republic of China November 14, 1965: Governor Philip H. Hoff, Vermont and Governor John H. Chaffee, Rhode Island, recently returned from Vietnam 1966 April 17, 1966 Ambassador Goldberg, United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations September 18, 1966: President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippine Islands .
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