Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy presents Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Staff of the United States Navy. Looking on (L – R): Naval Aide to the President Commander Tazewell Shepard, Jr. (far left); Pennsylvania Congressman Daniel J. Flood; Roberta Burke, Admiral Burke’s wife; General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (behind and right of Admiral Burke); Mississippi Senator John C. Stennis (behind and right of General Lemnitzer); others unidentified. Rose Garden, White House, Washington, D.C.