McNamara Returns to Capital, Spokesman Says Viet Cong Being Hit "Harder than Ever"
Feb. 20, 1962 - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara returned to the capital today and reported improvement in the South Vietnamese...
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Feb 19, 2022
Glenn Spaceflight May Happen Tomorrow Morning
Feb. 19, 1962 - The prospects for sending Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. into orbit tomorrow seem better than they have for a week. The...
Feb 19, 2022
McNamara: "Long, Hard Struggle" in Vietnam
Feb. 19, 1962 - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said today that the South Vietnam war “seems to be stabilized,” but that guerrilla...
Feb 19, 2022
Goldwater Praises McNamara, Hits Kennedy on Cuba
Feb. 19, 1962 - Senator Barry Goldwater praised Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara today as “one of the best Secretaries of Defense...
Feb 18, 2022
Nina Khrushchev Pleads for Disarmament in Message to American Women
Feb. 18, 1962 - Mrs. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev (pictured with the First Lady last June in Austria), wife of the Soviet Premier, pleaded...
Feb 18, 2022
RFK: We Will Win in Vietnam
Feb. 18, 1962 - Robert F. Kennedy said today that U.S. troops would stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression was defeated. The...
Feb 18, 2022
Specialists Cast Doubt on National Shelter Program
Feb. 18, 1962 - A pamphlet contending that any national shelter program would be almost useless has been issued by eight specialists who...
Feb 17, 2022
RFK in Bandung: "American Plane Got Me Here, Russian One Didn't"
Feb. 17, 1962 - Robert F. Kennedy made political capital today of his misadventures in a Soviet-built transport plane. The plane, an...
Feb 17, 2022
GOP Wants Answers on Vietnam
Feb. 17, 1962 - The Republicans charged again today that President Kennedy was hiding the extent of U.S. involvement in South Vietnam....
Feb 17, 2022
McCone Replaces Bissell with Richard Helms at CIA
Feb. 17, 1962 - John A. McCone (pictured), the new director of the C.I.A., has begun to rebuild the agency’s high command by putting a...
Feb 17, 2022
Robert F. Kennedy's Remarks on Mexican War Cause Furor
Feb. 17, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy found himself in the center of a Texas twister last night because of an impromptu...
Feb 16, 2022
Foreign TV Execs Interested in First Lady's White House Tour
Feb. 16, 1962 - Foreign television executives from Communist Hungary to Japan are regarding the TV White House tour with Mrs. Jacqueline...
Feb 16, 2022
VIDEO: President Kennedy's Rose Garden Remarks to Foreign Educators
Feb. 16, 1962 - Here is video of President Kennedy’s remarks in the Rose Garden to a group of visiting foreign educators. The 325...
Feb 16, 2022
Washington Officials: Defeat of Viet Cong Could Take 10 Years
Feb. 16, 1962 - Washington officials predicted today the ultimate defeat of the Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam by the Government...
Feb 16, 2022
Governor Rockefeller Hits Kennedy on Civil Rights
Feb. 16, 1962 - New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, speaking at a Lincoln Day fund-raising dinner held by the Niagara County Republican...
Feb 15, 2022
First Lady's White House Tour Seen by 46,550,000
Feb. 15, 1962 - Mrs. Kennedy’s televised tour of the White House Wednesday night was watched by 46,550,000 persons, according to survey...
Feb 15, 2022
Nixon Supports President Kennedy on Vietnam Build-Up
Feb. 15, 1962 - Former Vice President Nixon opposed today criticism of the buildup by the U.S. of military forces in South Vietnam to bar...
Feb 15, 2022
Ambassador Nolting Bids South Vietnamese Stop Criticizing Government
Feb. 15, 1962 - Frederick E. Nolting, Ambassador to South Vietnam, said today that social, economic and political reforms in South...
Feb 14, 2022
First Lady Excels as White House Tour Guide
Feb. 14, 1962 - Millions of television viewers toured the White House this evening with Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy leading the way. The...
Feb 14, 2022
TV: First Lady's White House Tour
Feb. 14, 1962 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gives an exclusive televised tour of the White House, hosted by CBS's Charles Collingwood....
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