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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-05-22-C
AR21, KN17
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C21934
Officials and guests stand outside Blair House following an arrival ceremony and motorcade in honor of President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Those pictured include: U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; Air Force Aide to President Kennedy, Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa; Henriette Bédié (wife of Ambassador of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bédié); U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Eddie N. Williams and Richard J. Gookin; Deputy Director of the Office of West African and Malagasy Affairs, Donald Dumont; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Virginia Rusk; District of Columbia Commissioner, John B. Duncan; Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, General Barksdale Hamlett; Chief of Protocol of the Ivory Coast, Georges Ouégnin; Assistant Press Secretary, Jay W. Gildner; Special Assistant to the Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs, and Planning of the Ivory Coast, Mohamed Diawara; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; U.S. Military Aide to President Houphouët-Boigny, Brigadier General Howard McCrum Snyder, Jr.; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; First Technical Counselor to President Houphouët-Boigny, Thadée Diffre. Washington, D.C.