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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22818
President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks at the arrival ceremony in honor of President of the Republic of Ecuador, Dr. Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): President Arosemena Monroy; unidentified; Ambassador of the Republic of Ecuador, Neftalí Ponce-Miranda; President Kennedy (at microphones); U.S. Under Secretary of State, George Ball; Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup; United States Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Maurice M. Bernbaum; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Carlos Julio Arosemena, Jr. Also pictured: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; First Lady of the Republic of Ecuador, Gladys Peet de Arosemena; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa; Betty Bernbaum; Robin Chandler Duke; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Edwin M. Martin; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; Sandra Arosemena; Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr.; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton; U.S. State Department Protocol officers, Richard J. Gookin and Jay Rutherfurd; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; U.S. State Department interpreter, Fernando van Reigersberg; White House Secret Service agents, Bill Duncan, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, and Emory Roberts. Members of the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets stand in background; members of the press gather in foreground. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.