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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-10-24-D
KN40
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-29-A
ST15
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A26-16-62
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) regarding the crisis in Cuba. Seated at table (clockwise from bottom left): Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Paul Nitze, Acting Director of the United States Information Agency (USIA) Donald Wilson (partially hidden), Special Counsel to the President Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Assistant to the President for National Security McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Llewellyn Thompson, Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) William C. Foster, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John McCone, Under Secretary of State George Ball (mostly hidden), Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, President Kennedy (mostly hidden behind Secretary Rusk), and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger (on far edge of frame) stand at right; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council Bromley Smith (back left) sits against the wall, near the bookcase. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C30344
President John F. Kennedy’s aides pose on the West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Appointment Secretary, Kenneth P. O’Donnell; Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; Special Assistant for Science and Technology, Jerome B. Wiesner; Special Assistant for Congressional Relations and Personnel, Larry O’Brien; Economic Advisor, Kermit Gordon; Assistant Special Counsel, Lee C. White; Administrative Assistant, Timothy J. Reardon, Jr.; Advisor for National Capital Affairs, Charles A. Horsky; Deputy Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM), Edward A. McDermott; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter W. Heller; Ralph A. Dungan; Military Aide, General Chester V. Clifton; Special Counsel, Theodore C. Sorensen; Director of Food for Peace, Richard W. Reuter; Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, Bromley Smith; Special Assistant for National Security, McGeorge Bundy.