Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6492-A
President John F. Kennedy walks through a hallway of the State Department; the President delivered an address to the Chiefs of Staff of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Nations. L-R: Two unidentified honor guard members; Chief of the Defense Staff of the British Armed Forces, Lord Louis Mountbatten, First Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs, McGeorge Bundy; unidentified man (in back); President Kennedy; Kennedy family friend, Charles Spalding (face partially hidden); Military Aide to the President, General Chester V. Clifton; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer; unidentified military personnel. New York Times photographer, George Tames, is visible at right in background.