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White House Photographs
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At the White House Correspondents and News Photographers Dinner, William H. Y. Knighton, Jr., President of the White House Correspondents’ Association, presents Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain with a silver cigar box modeled on a colonial tobacco box. President John F. Kennedy looks on, holding a silver replica of the inkstand used during the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Both gifts were made by William De Matteo, a silversmith at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Main ballroom, Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington, D.C.