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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-09-28-E
AR27, ST14, KN23
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C26342
President John F. Kennedy stands next to a scale model of a Gemini capsule in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.; the model was given to President Kennedy as a Christmas gift from the personnel of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, following the President’s visit to McDonnell’s St. Louis plant on 12 September 1962. Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh, stands at left. Visible through doorway at right: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; John F. Kennedy, Jr. (sitting on floor). [See also MO 63.1922a-c, "Scale Model of the Gemini Spacecraft"]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C24327
President John F. Kennedy presents a gift of a plaque to retiring Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (right, at microphones), during General Decker's Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) ceremony; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton, holds plaque at left. Looking on (L-R): Representative George H. Mahon of Texas (partially hidden on edge of frame); Helen Decker; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric (mostly hidden); Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (partially hidden); Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. General John C. Munn; Senator Stuart Symington (Missouri); Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Paul Nitze; General Decker's son, James Inman Decker. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C. [Blemish in upper left portion of image is original to the negative.]
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29305
President John F. Kennedy (center left) receives gifts from U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Ross McEuen during a lunch with military officers in the mess hall at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also pictured: U.S. Army Sergeant Major Richard C. Whitfield; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C29304
President John F. Kennedy (center left) receives gifts during a lunch with military officers in the mess hall at Fliegerhorst Kaserne in Hanau, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also pictured: U.S. Army Sergeant Major Richard C. Whitfield; U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Ross McEuen; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C30566
President John F. Kennedy (center, looking through binoculars) and others stand on the deck of the United States Naval ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154), at sea off the coast of Florida. Left to right (in foreground): Commanding Officer of the USS Observation Island, Captain Roderick O. Middleton; unidentified military officer (in back); Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; President Kennedy (wearing a windbreaker bearing the insignias of the USS Observation Island and the submarine USS Andrew Jackson, SSBN-619, presented as a gift from the crews of both ships); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton (in back, mostly hidden); Deputy Commander of the Submarine Force of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Rear Admiral Vernon L. Lowrance; and Senator George A. Smathers (Florida). The President sailed aboard the ship to view a Polaris A-2 missile launch demonstration from the submarine. [See also MO 75.704, “United States Naval Jacket”]