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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-08-28-E
KN39
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21003
Long buffet table in the State Dining Room, set up in preparation for a congressional reception at the White House, Washington, D.C. White House Maître d’Hotel, Charles E. Ficklin, and White House butler, John W. Ficklin, stand behind the table; a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, painted in 1869 by George P. A. Healy, hangs on wall above the table.