Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7173-D
Historian Allan Nevins presents President John F. Kennedy with a Civil War Centennial Commission (CWCC) medallion. Members of the CWCC look on from back row (L-R): Roy K. Davenport, Under Secretary of Defense for Army Personnel; Edmund C. Gass, Assistant Executive Director of the CWCC; Representative Fred Schwengel of Iowa (face hidden); Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas; David C. Mearns, Chief of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress; Harry B. Elkins; James I. Robertson, Jr., Executive Director of the CWCC; Representative George A. Goodling of Pennsylvania. Fish Room (Conference Room), White House, Washington, D.C.
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