Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-21704
Violinist Isaac Stern prepares to play at a dinner in honor of Minister of State for Cultural Affairs of France, André Malraux. Those pictured in audience include: President John F. Kennedy; Minister Malraux; First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy; wife of the minister, pianist Madeleine Malraux; French Ambassador to the United States, Hervé Alphand; wife of the Ambassador, Nicole Alphand; Director of the National Park Service (NPS), Conrad L. Wirth; Helen Olson Wirth; Erma Lee Udall and Secretary of the Interior, Stewart L. Udall; Patricia Herman, wife of White House correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), George Herman; editor of The New Republic, Gilbert Harrison; Dorothy Léger and poet Alexis Léger (Saint-John Perse); Margaret Livingston Partridge Burden and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, William A. M. Burden, Jr.; journalist in the New York Times Washington Bureau, Nona Baldwin Brown. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.