Nancy Pelosi meeting President John F. Kennedy after his inauguration in 1961. – Nancy Pelosi/Facebook. Pelosi met the young president that day, and the image was captured and preserved.

Historian Alan Brinkley discussed the crises President Kennedy faced in 1961, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Crisis, and the lessons he learned from those events. He is the ...

In 1961, after winning the 1960 Presidential election, John F. Kennedy delivered his iconic inaugural address from Washington D.C. in 1961.

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1961 (UPI) - President-elect John F. Kennedy was urged by a special task force today to push for a four-year $5,400,000,000 housing program and to create a new Cabinet ...

The 1961 Lincoln limousine (code name: X-100) that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in on a trip to Dallas was sent back to Ford and partner Hess & Eisenhardt to rebuild and improve its safety and ...

President Kennedy continued Eisenhower’s efforts when his presidency began in 1961, viewing performing arts as essential to the health of the country.

A newly unredacted portion of a 1961 memo to President Kennedy describes how the C.I.A. had placed about 1,500 agents overseas as State Department employees.