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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy (center) and others applaud as astronaut Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. leaves the lectern following his acceptance speech for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Distinguished Service Medal at Hangar ‘S,’ Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. Standing on the platform (L-R): unidentified (in back), Congressman George P. Miller (California), Senator Robert S. Kerr (Oklahoma), Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center Dr. Robert Gilruth, Congressman Albert Thomas of Texas (in back), Administrator of NASA James E. Webb, Senator George Smathers of Florida (in back), Lieutenant Colonel Glenn, astronaut Lieutenant Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr. (in back), President Kennedy, Glenn's daughter Lyn Glenn (mostly hidden behind the President), his son David Glenn (in back), his wife Annie Glenn (wearing red dress), astronaut Lieutenant Commander M. Scott Carpenter (in back), Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center Major General Leighton I. Davis, astronaut Major Donald K. “Deke” Slayton (in back), Governor Farris Bryant of Florida (in front), President Kennedy's brother-in-law Prince Stanislaus Radziwill of Poland (in back, partially hidden), and Air Force Aide to the President Brigadier General Godfrey T. McHugh. The space capsule Friendship 7 is visible at far right.