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White House Photographs
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Officials from the Ivory Coast arrive at Washington National Airport. Those pictured include: President of the Ivory Coast, Félix Houphouët-Boigny (mostly hidden); First Lady of the Ivory Coast, Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny; President of the Supreme Court of the Ivory Coast, Ernest Boka; Ambassador of the Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bédié; Henriette Bédié (wife of Ambassador Bédié); Chief of Protocol of the Ivory Coast, Georges Ouégnin; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams; Nancy Quirk Williams; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Lillian Somoza de Sevilla-Sacasa; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Deputy Director of the Office of West African and Malagasy Affairs, Donald Dumont; U.S. State Department interpreter, Edmund S. Glenn; U.S. State Department Interpreter, José de Seabra; White House Secret Service agent, Ron Pontius. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.
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