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White House Photographs
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Drawing the route of his orbital flight, Astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. (right) signs the American Geographical Society's (AGS) Fliers' and Explorers' Globe in the Oval Office of the White House at a reception in his honor. President John F. Kennedy (far left), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back), AGS Director Charles B. Hitchcock (in profile, wearing glasses), White House butler John W. Ficklin (behind Mr. Hitchcock), and several children, including President Kennedy's nephew Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (in foreground, first from left), look on from left. Washington, D.C.