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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at a military reception in honor of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth, stands at right in the background. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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View of the South Lawn of the White House, as the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, performs during a military reception in honor of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. President John F. Kennedy and others watch the proceedings from the South Portico (right, foreground). The Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial are visible in the distance. Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (left, foreground) attends a military reception in honor of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Standing directly behind President Kennedy: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard. South Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (left, foreground) attends a military reception in honor of recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Standing directly behind President Kennedy: Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard. Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric, stands on the far left edge of the frame. Caroline Kennedy and nanny to the Kennedy children, Maud Shaw, watch the proceedings from the second-floor balcony (“Truman Porch”). South Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Visitors gather in the Rose Garden following the presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to retiring United States Navy Admiral, Robert L. Dennison. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; former Naval Aide to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Captain Edward L. "Ned" Beach; General Walter C. Sweeney, Jr.; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; former United States Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), W. Randolph Burgess; Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Clark Clifford; Director of the United States Secret Service, James J. Rowley; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; White House Secret Service agent, Stewart “Stu” Stout. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Visitors gather in the Rose Garden following the presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to retiring United States Navy Admiral, Robert L. Dennison. Those pictured include: President John F. Kennedy; Admiral Dennison; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara; General Walter C. Sweeney, Jr.; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roswell L. Gilpatric; Captain Edward L. Beach; Chief of White House Police, Major Ralph C. “Smokey” Stover; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy shakes hands with retiring United States Navy Admiral, Robert L. Dennison, at the presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to Admiral Dennison. Left to right: Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; President Kennedy; unidentified boy (in back); Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; Admiral Dennison; unidentified woman. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at the presentation of the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) to retiring United States Navy Admiral, Robert L. Dennison. Left to right: Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell Shepard; President Kennedy; Secretary of the Navy, Fred Korth; unidentified woman; Admiral Dennison; two unidentified men; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr.; Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greet President of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, and First Lady of Venezuela, Carmen Valverde de Betancourt, upon their arrival at the White House for a ceremony in their honor. Left to right (in foreground): Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay; Virginia Rusk; Mrs. Kennedy; U.S. Department of State interpreter, Donald Barnes (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (in back); Robin Chandler Duke (behind her husband); Mrs. Betancourt (holding bouquet of roses); President Betancourt; Virginia Betancourt de Pérez, daughter of President and Mrs. Betancourt (partially hidden behind open car door); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk. Honor guard troops line the driveway in the background. Also pictured: U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; White House Secret Service agents, Arthur L. "Art" Godfrey and Win Lawson. North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend an arrival ceremony in honor of President of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, and First Lady of Venezuela, Carmen Valverde de Betancourt. President Kennedy greets President Betancourt (in front of open car door) upon his arrival at the White House; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (wearing hat), and U.S. Department of State interpreter, Donald Barnes (back to camera), stand on either side of the Presidents. Mrs. Kennedy (holding bouquet of roses) and U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (far left), descend the stairs; honor guard troops line the driveway in the background. Also pictured: U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; White House Secret Service agent, Arthur L. "Art" Godfrey. North Portico, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (in rocking chair) meets with Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy meets with Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces and Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Left to right: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell D. Taylor; Lord Mountbatten; President Kennedy; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy (at right, in rocking chair) meets with United States Air Force (USAF) officers who took part in aerial photo-reconnaissance missions over Cuba. Seated on sofa (left to right): Colonel Ralph D. "Doug" Steakley, photo evaluator with the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lieutenant Colonel Joe M. O'Grady, U-2 pilot; Major Richard S. "Steve" Heyser, U-2 pilot; Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, General Curtis E. LeMay. Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh, stands at right, in the background; an unidentified motion picture photographer films at left, in the foreground. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
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Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General D. W. McGowan, delivers remarks upon presenting to President John F. Kennedy a painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill by artist Kenneth "Ken" Riley, entitled "The Whites of their Eyes"; the painting is the first in a series of National Guard heritage paintings commissioned by the National Guard Bureau. Left to right: Representative James A. Burke of Massachusetts (partially hidden); Major General McGowan (at microphone); Representative Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts); unidentified (very back); Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert (in back); President of the National Guard Association of the United States, Major General William H. Harrison, Jr. (in back, mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (in back, mostly hidden over the President's left shoulder); Army Chief of Staff for Reserve Components, Major General Carl Darnell, Jr. (in back); Representative Thomas J. Lane (Massachusetts); unidentified (in back); unidentified (holding the painting); Mr. Riley (in back, face obscured); Deputy Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General Winston P. Wilson; Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Air Force, Colonel I. G. Brown; Acting Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Army, Colonel Francis S. Greenlief. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also MO 63.4856, "The Whites of Their Eyes," from the Kennedy Administration collection.]
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President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks upon receiving a painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill by artist Kenneth "Ken" Riley, entitled "The Whites of their Eyes," from representatives of the National Guard Bureau; the painting is the first in a series of National Guard heritage paintings commissioned by the National Guard Bureau. Left to right: Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General D. W. McGowan; President Kennedy (at microphone); Representative James A. Burke of Massachusetts (partially hidden, over the President's left shoulder); Representative Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts); President of the National Guard Association of the United States, Major General William H. Harrison, Jr. (in back, partially hidden); Secretary of the Army, Cyrus R. Vance (in back); Representative Thomas J. Lane (Massachusetts); Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (in back); unidentified (holding the painting); Mr. Riley (in back); Deputy Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General Winston P. Wilson; Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Air Force, Colonel I. G. Brown; Acting Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Army, Colonel Francis S. Greenlief. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also MO 63.4856, "The Whites of Their Eyes," from the Kennedy Administration collection.]
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President John F. Kennedy receives a painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill by artist Kenneth "Ken" Riley, entitled "The Whites of their Eyes," from representatives of the National Guard Bureau; the painting is the first in a series of National Guard heritage paintings commissioned by the National Guard Bureau. Left to right: Representative James A. Burke of Massachusetts (facing away); Representative Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (Massachusetts); President Kennedy (pointing to an area of the painting); Deputy Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General Winston P. Wilson (in back, partially hidden); Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker (in back, partially hidden); unidentified (holding the painting); unidentified (in back); Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Air Force, Colonel I. G. Brown (in back); Mr. Riley; Acting Assistant Chief of the National Guard Bureau for the Army, Colonel Francis S. Greenlief; Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Major General D. W. McGowan; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Notes: See also MO 63.4856, "The Whites of Their Eyes," from the Kennedy Administration collection.]
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United States Air Force and United States Navy aircraft perform a missing man flyover during graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.
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President John F. Kennedy (left, on speakers' platform) delivers remarks to employees of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb, and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell, stand at far left behind platform. Those seated at right include: Associate Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr.; Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner; Director of the Bureau of the Budget, David E. Bell; Senator Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin); Senator Edward V. Long (Missouri); Governor of Missouri, John M. Dalton; Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Representative George P. Miller (California); Director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Dr. Wernher von Braun; Director of Manned Space Flight, D. Brainerd Holmes; Naval Aide to the President, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Air Force Aide to the President, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth. Also pictured: White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman, Dave Grant, Lubert “Bert” de Freese, and Bill Duncan. U.S. Navy Phantom II and U.S. Air Force FJ-420 jet fighter planes sit in background. President Kennedy visited the McDonnell plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Left to right (in foreground, backs to camera): Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell; President Kennedy; unidentified. A U.S. Navy jet fighter plane sits at left in the background. The President visited the McDonnell plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. Left to right (in foreground, backs to camera): Vice President of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Sanford N. McDonnell; Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb; Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (partially hidden); President Kennedy. A U.S. Navy jet fighter plane sits in the background; McDonnell plant employees observe. The President visited the plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
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President John F. Kennedy tours the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis, Missouri. President Kennedy (left, back to camera) sits in a motorized cart with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, James S. McDonnell (driver's seat), Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Dr. James E. Webb, and Vice President of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Sanford N. McDonnell (partially hidden). A U.S. Navy jet fighter plane sits in the background. The President visited the McDonnell plant as part of a two-day inspection tour of NASA field installations. Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
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President Kennedy (center left, holding hat) reviews honor guard cadets during graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland, walks behind President Kennedy; honor guard commander, Cadet Captain Paul J. Kirkegaard, escorts the President and Superintendent on the Plain (parade grounds) of the USMA, West Point, New York.
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President John F. Kennedy (center right, in background) attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. Those standing with President Kennedy include: Color guard cadets; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr.; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General George H. Decker; Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton. Honor guard cadets stand at right in foreground. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.
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President John F. Kennedy attends graduation exercises at the United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, New York. President Kennedy visits with Major General Henry Clay Hodges, Jr. (in wheelchair), of the class of 1881. Also pictured: Cadets David G. Binney and Peter J. Oldfield; Superintendent of the USMA, Major General William C. Westmoreland; Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Secretary of the Army, Elvis J. Stahr, Jr.; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman L. Lemnitzer; General Maxwell D. Taylor. The Plain, USMA, West Point, New York.