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White House Photographs
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Dr. Theodore von Kármán speaks after receiving the National Medal of Science in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Chairman of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science, Frederick Seitz; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; President John F. Kennedy; General Bernard Schriever; Dr. von Kármán; Judge Victor L. Anfuso of the New York State Supreme Court; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; President of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge; unidentified; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Dr. Harold Brown (mostly hidden behind Dr. Wiesner).